Jeff Bellune
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Can you post a screenshot of your Flowchart panel, the Layers panel for the menu, and the Properties panel for a selected button all in view?
-Jeff
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You can’t set chapter end actions from the Flowchart. You have to use the End Action control in the chapter’s Properties panel.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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- Make sure your project is using the PAL television standard. Go to File | Project Settings and check. If it’s not, then create a new project.
- Find the Blank Menu WIDE in the Library’s General Set. Right-click it and set it as the default menu. Now when you use the File | New | Menu command, you’ll get that menu added to your project, and not whatever menu used to be the default. Encore CS4 ships with the Party Menu as the default.
- To add a PSD file as the background of your menu, you have to add it to the project as a *Menu*, not an *Asset*.
-Jeff
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What kind of crash? Do you get an error message? Does En just disappear? Do you get a blue screen? Does your computer reboot?
What happens, exactly?
-Jeff
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Hi Doug,
One way to accomplish this is to set the end action of each chapter to link back to the sub-menu. Then for a Play All function, you would create a Chapter Playlist that contains all of the chapters. Make sure to delete all current end actions, button links and overrides before setting up the new navigation. And don’t set any overrides at all after that.
The disadvantage to this method is that there will be a slight pause between chapters in the Play All chapter playlist. If there is no break like a fade to black between those chapters, then the pause will be distracting to the audience.
Let us know how that works out for you.
-Jeff
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Since your source footage isn’t a supported BD frame size/frame rate combination, you have to change one or the other, as you already know. Given a choice, I would personally keep the frame rate the same and change the frame size. The HD to SD (720×480) method may produce acceptable results for you, and since that is the SD DVD frame size, you would get a finished product at a lower cost per disc and with increased audience compatibility because you’d be making a DVD instead of a BD.
If you want to stay in the HD world and create a BD, then I would create 1920×1080 output at 30 fps. Choosing interlaced or progressive should be based on your source footage. 2-pass VBR would be fine, but you may be get good results using VBR 1-pass. At 30 fps, I’d stick with 3 M frames and 15 N frames. Again, please don’t forget to select Use Maximum Render Quality. 🙂
As for the “technical issues”, be aware that when Pr sends your sequence to the AME, the AME creates a new temporary copy of your Pr project so that it can encode while you can go back to your real project and continue to work. The AME encodes from the temporary copy of your project.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Try this:
Select the entire subtitle track and change the font kerning. Then Undo the change and save the project. Try building again.
This workaround is supposed to fix an error where the changes to the subtitles don’t show up in the burned disc, but it may help your error in this case.
-Jeff
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OK. If you watch my tutorial, CS4 HD to SD, then you’ll get an idea of how to downscale the HD footage to SD using PrCS4.
If you decide to experiment with upscaling your 720p30 footage to 1080p30 using Pr, just be sure to check the Maximum Render Quality setting on the Export Settings screen.
MRQ takes a long time, so I suggest testing with only a very short segment of your video.
-Jeff
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