Jeff Bellune
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*Every* hardware DVD player will scale it correctly if the owner of the player has set it up to match the type of TV they’re using. How many DVD player owners have it set up correctly? I don’t know – how many VCR owners still have the blinking “12:00” showing on the display? 🙂
You also have to deal with HDTV owners viewing properly-scaled 4:3 video content improperly distorted because they’ve set the display aspect ratio of their TV wrong. You have absolutely no control over the audience’s DVD player set-up and their TV PAR settings.
As I said: for standard def DVD there is only one frame size choice for NTSC and that is 720×480. Whether that footage has a PAR of 0.9 (standard 4:3) or 1.2 (widescreen 16:9) depends on your source footage and how you export it from your editing program. These days, with all new TVs on store shelves being 16:9 HDTVs, personally I’d edit my 4:3 SD footage in a 16:9 SD sequence so that it was permanently pillar-boxed and couldn’t be stretched by the audience choosing the wrong PAR on the TV. Reference the Star Trek Original Series BD episodes; that’s what Paramount did.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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To use Encore for creating a BD from your footage, you’ll have to choose between changing the frame rate of your source footage, or changing the frame size.
Some experimenting is in order. What version of Encore do you have?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Are you trying to make an SD DVD or a Blu-ray disc? If DVD, then 720×480 is the only choice you have, because that’s the DVD frame size. If it’s 720×480 widescreen (1.21 PAR), then an HDTV will upscale the image to fit the full HDTV frame, and an SD TV will show the frame letterboxed.
All of the above depends on the particular DVD player being set up correctly.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Rob,
Not just the menus; *anywhere* in the project. If an override is set when it doesn’t need to be (and it almost never needs to be), it can create havoc by adversely affecting things in other places that shouldn’t be affected at all.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Last chance for me: Do you have any overrides set anywhere at all in the entire project?
Change them all to Not Set if you do.
I can’t think of any other reason that the menu button links aren’t landing on the correct button.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Click on the Show Button Routing button in the Menu Viewer. Are the buttons numbered the way you expect?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Yes. You’ll need an intermediate file exported from FCP to use in En.
I’ve only used En CS3 on an 8-core Mac Pro running Tiger; I got to play with it on that platform for about a week. Worked as well as it does on Windows. Note: CS3 on Leopard (and Snow Leopard?) has button highlight issues. CS3 on any version of Windows doesn’t.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I’m happy with Encore’s transcoding. Others are not. Since En uses the MainConcept MPEG encoder (which is generally well-regarded), users that end up with poor-quality results may just have set things up wrong. Or they may be doing higher-end stuff that requires a higher-end encoder.
Start with a small test project and see if En can produce the quality you need. Start with Encore’s Automatic settings. If it’s not good enough, then see if you can tweak the Transcode Presets to settings similar enough to the ones you used in Compressor, and see if the quality improves.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Go to File | Interpret Footage and make sure that En sees the assets as widescreen with a PAR of 1.21.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Most EU/PAL DVD players will play NTSC discs. It’s the US/NTSC models that won’t play PAL discs.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0