Jeff Bellune
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If you are using Dynamic Link, you have to enable MRQ in Encore. Right-click the sequence in the En project panel and choose Transcode Settings. There is a “Use Maximum Render Quality” check box in that dialog. That has to be checked for En to transcode using MRQ.
-Jeff
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Is the menu set to “First Play”? If not, how do you link to it? Do you have any overrides set?
-Jeff
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When you select the preset encoder settings in En, you have to check the box that says, “Use Maximum Render Quality”. If you don’t, then you get the soft, blurry output that you are getting.
Unfortunately, Maximum Render Quality takes a long time to render and encode and it’s even worse with 2-pass encoding.
Sidebar: Don’t use pure white text on a pure black background. It doesn’t translate well to video. I recommend white RGB values of (235,235,235) and black RGB values of (16,16,16)
-Jeff
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The message means that you set an end action for the last chapter marker. That prevents the end action of the timeline from executing.
Delete the end action for the last chapter marker.
-Jeff
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Is the AC3 multichannel? Multichannel audio in Encore is pass-through only.
-Jeff
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Wow, Joe. That’s a lot of questions. I need to bring the discussion back around to the thread topic or it’ll get really confusing for anyone else reading this thread.
Your other questions are good ones; they deserve their own threads.
[Jeff Bellune] “somewhere along the line during the construction of this project, either in Pr or En, a chapter point was added at the 33-second mark. Why it’s still there, I don’t know. Maybe it would help troubleshoot why it’s there if you tried a new test:
* Create a new test project in Pr and one in En.
* Import just the problem Pr sequence into the new Pr project.
* Re-verify that there aren’t any markers where they’re not supposed to be.
* Set the work area bar to encompass the 33-second point with a minute or so on either side of it.
* Export as uncompressed (or Lagarith, if you have it) .avi.
* Import the new .avi file into the new Encore project.
* Add the .avi to a timeline and build the project to an RW disc.
* Play back the disc.Is the chapter marker at 33 seconds gone? “
Your first question concerning this test was this:
[Joe Bandy] “Is there any reason we would use and AVI instead of H.264 for Blu-ray? “
The AVI file is an intermediate file that will be transcoded by Encore. That’s why I suggested you test with only a small portion of the whole Pr timeline. Transcoding in a fresh, new Encore project should eliminate any possible “ghosts” of the leftover chapter point that existed in the Dynamically-Linked sequence or in the previously transcoded Encore files.
[Joe Bandy] “We don’t have any BD-RW discs either. We only have BD-Rs does that matter for this test.”
I should have said a “BD-RE” disc, because those are re-writable. A BD-R will be just fine. I didn’t want you to waste one on a test if a BD-RE was available.
[Joe Bandy] “I tried the test and used a h.264 instead of a AVI file and the Ch stop at 33 sec was not there. Does this mean I have to recreate my assets?”
That’s good news! You skipped the intermediate file but still got the desired results. Make sure your test file imports into En and shows up as “Do Not Transcode” in the Blu-ray Transcode Status column. If that’s how it imports, then you should transcode your assets in Pr to H.264 before importing them into Encore.
-Jeff
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[steve edwards] “All of the end actions are the same in the ss menu (shows Main Menu), I set them to ss menu, and it somehow changed them to main menu, but 3 of the four end actions goes back to ss menu, even though the end action show that it should go to the main menu. If I change any of the end actions to ss in the ss menu, it changes one of my end actions in the “main menu” to SS”
I’m a little confused by this statement. Timelines have end actions, whole menus have end actions, but menu buttons have links. And unless you have multiple buttons selected, changing one button’s link won’t affect the other buttons.
The good news is all of that may be irrelevant. See how this works for you:
1. Leave the Main Menu the way it is.
2. Leave the Timeline end actions the way they are.
3. Create a Chapter Playlist for each individual chapter that you want on the Scene Select menu.
4. Link each button on the SS menu to its corresponding Chapter Playlist.
5. Set the End Action of each Chapter Playlist to return to the SS menu.Burn an RW disc and test it on both hardware and software DVD players. Let us know how it turns out.
-Jeff
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1. Did you mean for the Vows button to link to a different timeline than the other Scene Selection buttons?
2. Do you have any Overrides set anywhere in the project?
-Jeff
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First, take out the chapter point you added at the end of the timelines. En CS3 and CS4 put an invisible chapter marker there for you automatically to handle just such a situation.
You can’t skip backwards between timelines unless the player supports it. And I’m not sure if you can do it even then.
Unless the residents of Area 51 are controlling Encore on your machine, somewhere along the line during the construction of this project, either in Pr or En, a chapter point was added at the 33-second mark. Why it’s still there, I don’t know. Maybe it would help troubleshoot why it’s there if you tried a new test:
- Create a new test project in Pr and one in En.
- Import just the problem Pr sequence into the new Pr project.
- Re-verify that there aren’t any markers where they’re not supposed to be.
- Set the work area bar to encompass the 33-second point with a minute or so on either side of it.
- Export as uncompressed (or Lagarith, if you have it) .avi.
- Import the new .avi file into the new Encore project.
- Add the .avi to a timeline and build the project to an RW disc.
- Play back the disc.
Is the chapter marker at 33 seconds gone?
-Jeff
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Make sure that Photoshop is the app that’s associated with .psd files in Windows.
-Jeff
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