Jeff Bellune
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Please post your solution so that others may benefit from your experiences.
Thanks.
-Jeff
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From the Properties panel for the short video’s timeline, set the End Action to explicitly go back to the menu with the desired button highlighted. It’ll look something like this: MenuName:Button2
-Jeff
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You should be able to easily fit an 85-minute program on a single-layer DVD. Why did you have to split the project?
You may be right about the layer break. This is just a guess, but if Encore thinks the whole thing will fit on one layer then there may be layer break issues.
Have you tried setting a manual layer break?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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1. Always burn a test disc on an RW disc. No wasted DVDs.
2. What bit rate is your encoded video file? The bit rate may be too high.
-Jeff
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Are the black bars thin? If so, then you are experiencing Adobe’s correction to non-square pixel aspect ratios that they implemented in CS4.
The PAR change is based on the BBC standard, and it is implemented across the entire suite of video applications.
-Jeff
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Squeeze 5’s deinterlacing is much improved over 4. However, it’s not as good as what’s available in the open-source world.
If you go to the the Premiere Pro Adobe User-to-User forum and search on “hd2sd”, you’ll find several threads about Dan Isaac’s AviSynth scripts that will produce scaled and deinterlaced output that far exceeds Adobe’s and Sorenson’s in quality.
It’s not a one-button, click here solution, but once you get it working you’ll be addicted to the quality. In a few weeks, I plan to have a in-depth tutorial on how to find, install and use the necessary open-source tools and hd2sd. I just posted a link in the Adobe forums to my tutorial on how to get the best results when scaling HD to SD using only Pr CS4. Again, like Squeeze, CS4’s results aren’t as good as what you can get from hd2sd.
I use Squeeze 5 to encode the hd2sd output to MPEG2 DVD.
-Jeff
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Mike’s advice is OK if the video content doesn’t involve high-speed motion. For a wedding videographer this usually isn’t a problem.
If the video content does include significant motion, then encoding the video as interlaced produces much smoother motion than does encoding it as progressive.
I’ve tested this scenario on CRT TVs with DVD players connected via composite or S-Video, on HDTVs with upscaling progressive-scan DVD players connected via HDMI, and on HDTVs with progressive-scan DVD players connected via the component outputs.
One further note: If you’re going to shoot progressive, and then stay progressive all the way through MPEG2 DVD encoding, then I recommend shooting in 24p instead of 30p. It looks better and more filmic right off the card that way.
-Jeff
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Automatic Transcoding is CBR until the required bit rate drops below about 6 Mbps. Then VBR transcoding kicks in. I think that it’s VBR 1-Pass at that point, but I’ve heard others speculate that it’s VBR 2-Pass. Adobe’s not telling.
You could do your own test: Time how long it takes a 100-minute file to transcode in Encore using a VBR 1-Pass, 5.7 Mbps transcode setting. Then, in a DVD-5 project, time how long it takes to transcode that same file in an Encore timeline and with a transcode setting of Automatic. If they take about the same amount of time, then Auto uses VBR, 1-Pass. If Auto takes twice as long, then it uses VBR 2-Pass.
Make sure the audio is transcoded to 192 kbps Dolby Digital.
Automatic Transcoding will respect progressive sources.
-Jeff
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What brand of BD player? Some manufacturers (like Samsung) have deliberately crippled their players so that only BDs with full AACS copy protection can be played. No homemade BDs allowed.
Try on different players, preferably at least one hardware and one software player.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0