Jeff Bellune
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DVD is Standard Definition.
The only High Definition disc formats are Blu-ray and HD-DVD (which is slowly vanishing from the planet).
For downscaling HD footage, Encore’s “Automatic” transcoding isn’t generally a good idea because the Adobe Media Encoder sucks at downscaling.
How to proceed depends on which version of Encore you are using.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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1. Scale your menu in Photoshop; don’t bring a HiDef menu into a Standard Def project.
2. With PCM audio and 8 Mbps for a video bit rate, the video file size will only be about 176 MB, so what you are seeing is normal and expected. With .ac3 audio and 145 MB seems reasonable.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Do you have any overrides set? Anywhere in the project? That’s the first thing you should check anytime your disc navigation doesn’t do what you want it to.
It may not be applicable in this case, but it’s worth checking.
-Jeff
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[Bowen Llewellyn] “Surely though Encore should be able to transcode to full SD16:9 from DVCPROHD without such mucking around?”
I agree. I don’t know why En doesn’t see the Pr DVCPROHD sequence properly through Dynamic Link – it sees other HD sequences properly and downscales appropriately.
Anyway, the nesting trick works here, so if you want to take advantage of Encore’s automatic transcoding (where it does all the bit rate math for you), you have a way to make that option work with your footage.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You didn’t mention before that you were using HD source footage in Premiere. I thought you were using SD 16:9 footage in Pr.
Try this:
Nest your HD anamorphic 1.333 sequence into an SD 16:9 sequence. Then scale it to either 67% or 68%, depending on which is less objectionable – very thin black edges at the sides, or the top and bottom few pixels of the image getting cropped. Then dynamically link Encore to the new SD 16:9 sequence.
Does that get you what you want in Encore?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You mentioned dynamic link and so I assumed CS4. What versions of Pr and En are you using?
BTW – I have done what you are trying to do quite successfully, and I didn’t have to do anything unusual to make it happen.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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When you import the Pr sequence via Dynamic Link, go to File | Interpret Footage.
Make sure the PAR is being interpreted as widescreen.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Can you post a screenshot that includes the Menu Viewer with Show Button Routing selected, the Motion tab of the Menu Properties panel, and the Layers panel with all of the button folders expanded?
Also, CS3 isn’t certified for any 64-bit system, least of all XP64.
Your description of the button behavior when the loop point is set is accurate.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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The buttons don’t become active until the loop point is reached. Are you waiting long enough?
For clarity, please describe the exact behavior of the buttons when you say they “don’t work”. Are the highlights gone? Is the routing wrong? Can you select but not activate? Etc.?
Are you on a Mac or PC? Encore version number?
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Your results aren’t surprising – motion menus require something animated. Video and/or audio.
A motion menu with nothing isn’t a motion menu, and to expect it to behave as such is unrealistic.
You might consider adding a Feature Request on the Adobe web site to allow static menus to time out.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0