Jeff Bellune
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Ruud Blauw provided an excellent answer in the Adobe U2U forum topic that you started. Do let us know here as well if his suggestions worked.
-Jeff
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Let’s go the other way. Try creating a new document at 648×480. Sometimes this size document will scale better than 720×534.
-Jeff
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You need to make a new document/canvas that’s 720×534. If you merely resize the old one, then distortions will occur and things won’t line up.
-Jeff
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IIRC, PS7 doesn’t support non-square pixels. Make your PS menus 720×534.
-Jeff
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There’s a FAQ entry on Adobe’s Encore U2U forum about this:
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc44cc3
-Jeff
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Uncheck “Optimize Stills” in both your Premiere Project settings and your Premiere export settings.
-Jeff
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I’m sorry to hear that. Like I said, it works here. I’m out of ideas.
-Jeff
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[Lichai Cohn] “I tried extending the Comp length by 15 frames with stretching the layers and setting the loop point to 5.01. The Comp played one whole time and than it kept showing a black frame and than some of the Comp, black frame, Comp…. etc.”
Let’s clean up some stuff.
1. Highlight the AE comp in the Project panel. If the DVD Transcode Status shows Transcoded, then right-click it and choose Revert to Original. If it shows as Untranscoded, then skip to step 2.
2. Remove the AE comp as the Menu background.
3. Go to Edit | Preferences | Media. Click the Clean Database button.
4. Save your project. Exit Encore. Re-open Encore and load your project.
Add the comp as the menu background again, set the duration to 5:01 and preview (don’t render the motion menu yet). What happens?
Now render the motion menu. What happens?
It still works here.
-Jeff
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Okay, I was able to reproduce the black frame here after an Edit in Photoshop.
What was interesting was that when I set the loop point anywhere prior to 4:15, the menu looped with no break.
At 4:15 and beyond, the black-frame break occurred.
NTSC GOPs are 15 frames apart, so maybe something weird is going on with NTSC menu transcoding even in a PAL project. Either that, or there is a problem with the Effects you added to the Black Solid layer in the comp. I’m inclined to believe the latter, but that’s only a guess (and I didn’t take the time to test the theory).
Try this: extend your AE comp by 15 frames and stretch the layers to fill. Use the extended comp as the menu background and set the loop point to 5:01. It worked here, even after an Edit in Photoshop.
(BTW, all DVDs pause for a split second when the menu loops; usually, though, you see a freeze frame of the menu, not a black screen.)
-Jeff
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