Jeff Bellune
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Maybe this Encore FAQ entry in the Adobe Encore forum will help.
-Jeff
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Page 94 in my book, “Joining Assets in a Single Timeline” describes how to do it. Let me know if you need further clarification.
I mention that you can do the transcoding in Encore, but that option is available in your NLE as well. In that case, you would simply stitch together in an Encore timeline the transcoded files from your NLE or Compression software.
-Jeff
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Hi Alan,
You should be just fine with 90 minutes and automatic transcoding.
If by any chance you are unhappy with the quality, then picking out the parts for re-transcoding isn’t as hard as you think. It just takes more time.
-Jeff
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[David Burch] “a set of paired fields from a progressive source would still appear progressive when viewed together, and would allow for an easy 2:3 pulldown to be applied during playback. Adding fields would only occur when adding a pulldown from 24 to 30 fps”
Correct. And the only time the player would need to add fields at 30 fps is when outputting to an interlaced display.
-Jeff
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David,
It is as I said.
The space savings with 24p occur because there are fewer frames of video than 60i.
For display on an interlaced TV, the flags in the encoded mpeg2 stream tell DVD players which fields to show and when to show them, and which fields to repeat and when to repeat them. For NTSC video that has been inverse telecined, the repeat_first_field flag is set on every fifth frame.
Progressive video is encoded into mpeg2 as paired fields when encoding for DVD-Video. Capable progressive-scan DVD players can perfectly re-create the progressive frames from the paired fields.
My reference is pp 3-48 to 3-50 of DVD Demystified, Third Edition by Jim Taylor, Mark R. Johnson and Charles G. Crawford. Jim Taylor is widely recognized as a leading authority on the DVD Specification and the technology behind it. More info and more technical references are available at https://www.dvddemystified.com/
-Jeff
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You make me sorry I wasted my time replying to you. I thought (apparently mistakenly) that you wanted help.
-Jeff
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Typically this error occurs if you have moved, edited or replaced assets outside of Encore and saved them with the same name that Encore recognized before you made the move/edit/replacement.
That is a big no-no in the Encore world. Instead, use the tools provided in Encore: Edit Original and Replace Asset.
NB: It is not enough just to do the bad behaviors; there must be certain system hardware components at play as well. Adobe hasn’t found the answer, and neither have the forum regulars over at the Adobe User-to-User forum.
Regardless, if you handle your assets properly, the potential hardware issues shouldn’t be a factor and you should be able to avoid the error. However, at this point, I can’t say that is true in each and every case.
-Jeff
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1. Export using the exact same settings as your source video. So if your source video is 1440×1080 MPEG2, Upper Field First, with a PAR of 1.33, export it that way. Be sure to keep the frame rate the same too. With unlimited time and hard drive space, I would suggest exporting to uncompressed or to a lossless codec, but the “same settings” method works too, and is simpler.
2. Squeeze will take care of all that when you choose the MPEG2 DVD preset. Trust it. (The real answer to your question is yes *and* no, but I don’t want to get into a technical discussion here of why that is.)
-Jeff
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I also like Sorenson Squeeze’s results when encoding to SD DVD from HDV. The interface is intuitive. The new deinterlacing algorithm (usually necessary for scaling) in version 5 is excellent. There is a trial available.
-Jeff
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Encore 2.0 deals with standard definition video only. You could scale the HDV footage in Premiere and output a 720×480 SD DVD-legal MPEG file, but I don’t recommend that. Premiere’s tools for resizing (and deinterlacing) are crude and will not give good quality results.
There is a free solution available to you, but it is not point-and-click easy. Read all 182 posts in this Adobe U2U Premiere Pro forum topic. Dan Isaac’s scripts for AviSynth and VirtualDub will produce outstanding results.
Good luck,
-JeffThe Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0