Jeff Bellune
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Your software DVD player is at fault here. A good software DVD player will deinterlace the footage for computer playback so that you don’t see any interlacing artifacts.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[Joe Bandy] “It seems that the problem was the video with the pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 I transcoded it to 1.0 and the image and disc burn worked.”
But in an earlier post you said:
[Joe Bandy] “the clips that encore is having problems with have a pixel aspect ratio of square 1.0. The other clips have a pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 (widescreen) When I remove the 2 clips with ratios of 1.0 I was able to successfully build a image.
You seem to be going in circles here.
If Jon was correct, and you are trying to put clips with different aspect ratios into a single timeline, then the simplest solution is to put each of the clips in their own timeline. Depending on the play order that you want, you might also try putting the 1.0 clips into one timeline, and the 1.2 clips into another timeline.
A deeper, and probably more significant issue, is what you used as source video in Pr (i.e. was it camera footage, downloaded footage, graphics, images?). How and why you chose the export settings will probably play a big part as well.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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So far, I think the AME file size estimates are pretty good. But without using a bit rate calculator, you have to spend a lot of time changing the bit rate settings in the AME by trial and error.
Fill in the calculator parameters that you already know, and then use the results of the calculation to set your bit rate values in the AME. When you do that, the AME should give you a good estimate of the file size. For programs longer than 90 minutes, it should come very close to filling up the disc.
I hope that is the answer that you wanted.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Here’s a very good bit rate calculator:
https://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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In Windows, file sizes are based on powers of 2. So one MB equals 1024 KB. DVD disc file sizes are based on powers of 10. One MB equals 1000 KB.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Hi Marc,
I applaud you for outlining your trials and tribulations in such detail, as well as for posting the solutions that worked for you. It will definitely serve your intended purpose of helping future users who may stumble into the same traps that you did.
That said, I have to echo Joe’s sentiments. Taking more time to understand how Encore is designed to work would likely have prevented many headaches during your project. I hope that’s advice that future Googling users will also find useful. 😉
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Please check that your DVD player is set up to display on a widescreen TV.
Using Dynamic Link, the quality of the downscaled 720p can be very good. But you have to use Maximum Render Quality. Select the linked sequence in the Project panel and go to File | Transcode Settings. Check the box that says Maximum Render Quality and click OK.
NB: It will take a long time to render using MRQ.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Are you using CS4?
Did you wait for the reverted audio to conform? You can check that in the Progress panel.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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How long did you wait?
Are you launching from the program icon or are you double-clicking a project file?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Not directly. You’d have to create the loop in an editing program. Then you’d use the edited video as your menu background video.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0