Jeff Bellune
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A screenshot of the timeline.
Here’s a thought – in your Premiere timeline do you have a regular sequence marker (not an Encore chapter marker) at the 33 second point? If you have text in the Name field of the sequence marker, then Encore can pick it up as a chapter point.
-Jeff
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Hi John,
Thanks for all the detailed info. I don’t see anything in your workflow that would cause this problem. It’s possible that the problem is in how Encore is handling the assets and the media cache.
I’d like you to make a copy of your current project by going to File | Save As… and give the new copy a different name.
Close Encore and then re-launch it. Load the new copy of the project. Delete the motion menu that is giving you trouble.
Save the project and close Encore again. Then launch it again.
Go to Edit | Preferences | Media and click on the button to clean the media cache database. Click OK.
Reconstruct the problem menu in the new project. Build the project and burn to BD-RE so you don’t make any coasters. Test in your hardware and software BD players again.
Let us know if things get any better. If this doesn’t work, then I’m out of ideas.
-Jeff
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The added chapter point doesn’t make any sense to me.
Can you post a screenshot that shows the added chapter point at the 33 second mark?
And for my own orientation, the chapter point at 33 secs. is actually 22 secs. into Part 1 of the video, right?
-Jeff
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Hi John,
Sorry that I misunderstood your first post.
[John Morfesis] “the motion video starts playing when it reaches the 4 seconds where the loop point is”
Please clarify: are the first 4 seconds a 4-second long fade-up?
[John Morfesis] “Obviously to accomplish this we have turned off the eye off from the layers of the psd menu”
How does a static .psd menu fit into all of this?
How did you construct the video? Did you use Premiere? After Effects? There is an old bug (that shouldn’t be seen in CS3, but you never know) where selecting “Optimize Stills” in the sequence and/or export settings in Premiere could cause problems in Encore.
Could the problem be with the BD player that you are using? My Panasonic BD-30 is very slow when going from menu to menu or menu to timeline, or when any playback operation like Pause or Rewind is performed. You should test on at least one other BD player, and preferably two – one software and one hardware.
If neither of the above apply or solve the problem, then can you delay the loop point by a second or two to see if that makes any difference?
-Jeff
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Joe,
Out of curiosity, when you added the assets to a single timeline, did Encore show you any messages as you dropped the assets on the timeline?
-Jeff
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Dear MM,
The transcoded slideshow shows up as a series of .m2v files with strange names in the Sources\Transcodes folder inside of your main project folder.
Join the .m2v files together in a Pr timeline and you can edit them as you please.
Screenshot of what to look for attached.
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You’re welcome (I think). 🙂 Were you able to find the appropriate file?
-Jeff
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The only way is to find the transcoded MPEG2 file in your project’s Transcodes folder and then import that into Premiere Pro. You’ll likely have to load a few of those files into a media player to find the right one, because the name of the file won’t be what you expect.
-Jeff
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That is the expected behavior as the laser seeks to the loop point.
Check out any commercial DVD – they do the same thing.
-Jeff
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Using high-quality blank media like Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim, for most modern DVD players 8 Mbps is not unreasonable.
-Jeff
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