Jeff Bellune
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[Brian E.W. McNulty] “what about the actual file you are creating…do you use MPG2-DVD, .mov, .avi, etc? I believe that’s where it’s getting me every time.”
It doesn’t matter. AVI and MOV files will be transcoded to MPEG2 before they are burned to disc. DVD-legal MPEG2 files will be burned to disc without transcoding.
What kind of files (AVI, MOV) were the Lynda files? What codec was used in those files (DV, uncompressed, DivX, Animation, MJPEG, etc.)?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Here’s what I recommend:
1. Only use high-quality blank media like that from Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim.
2. Never encode above a 7 Mbps bit rate unless you have both high-quality media and a fully firmware-updated, quality DVD burner.
3. Never burn at a speed faster than one-half the rated speed of the media or the burner, whichever is lower.
-Jeff
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[Brian E.W. McNulty] “I also took the files from Lynda.com and tried them in my project and it worked fine.”
So if you burn a DVD using the Lynda.com files, that DVD plays on everyone’s computer?
-Jeff
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That’s the problem. *All* DVDs are encoded as MPEG2, even Hollywood DVDs, no matter what codec you start with.
If Hollywood DVDs play on the other computers, then something else is going on and you’ll need to provide more details about your project and about the computers that won’t play *your* DVDs.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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It’s not your fault, nor can you fix it from your end.
MPEG2 licensing, the bane to the video editor and DVD author, is the culprit here. A computer can only play back DVDs if a purchased software DVD player is installed, or some other purchased MPEG2 decoder is available to the system so generic media players can access it.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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It only affects render time. You should only consider using that option when you are deinterlacing interlaced footage, or when you’re scaling HD footage down to SD resolution.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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All you have to do is link the scene selection menu buttons to the chapter playlists instead of the chapters themselves. Set the end action of the chapter playlists to go back to the scene selection menu.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I don’t see anything wrong in the screenshots that you posted.
Based on what I saw in the screenshots, the menu loops at 8 seconds, not 7 seconds.
Try extending the total length of the video from After Effects by a few seconds. Give the video a new name when you export. Link the menu Video and Audio to the new, longer video.
Build using an RW disc so you don’t waste any blank discs.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I believe that you’ve put end actions on the Chapter Markers themselves. That’s either in addition to or instead of end actions on the Chapter Playlists.
Remove the end actions from the Chapter Markers, link each scene selection menu button to the appropriate Chapter Playlist and you should be good to go.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0