Jeff Bellune
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You’re welcome. I’m glad the solution was relatively painless.
-Jeff
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You’re welcome. 🙂
There is a way to get about 20 minutes of BD content on a blank DVD, but I don’t have the technique at my fingertips. It’s intended as stop-gap measure for those who don’t want the expense of buying a Blu-ray burner or blank BD media.I do know that it requires a Blu-ray player that can read AVCHD files.
If you’re interested, a search here or at the Adobe forums may turn up the exact method, or someone may post to this topic with a “How To” guide.
-Jeff
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Hi George,
Standard Def NTSC DVD is always 720×480. It’s part of the spec.
To get HD footage on to disc, you need Blu-ray. En can author BD, which is why those settings are available. You just need to set up your En project for BD instead of DVD.
-Jeff
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Caveat: I don’t work in a networked environment.
Adobe video apps generally don’t work perfectly in a networked environment. That said, there have been some success stories. Maybe yours will turn out to be one of them.
I’ve thought about it some more, and if it’s not a huge pain, do try the new user account. There may be an overarching issue with existing accounts that won’t affect a new one. At least one variable would be eliminated.
Do you have any of the other Adobe video apps installed (Pr, AE)? If so, do they open OK on the machines? If so again, go to Premiere’s Preferences and clean the media cache. En and Pr and AE share the same media cache database and files where possible.
Can you have your IT guys reinstall Quicktime?
I don’t think you can hurt anything by putting a copy of QTCF.dll into Encore’s root folder. If your IT dept. is uncomfortable with that, you may be able to simulate the move by creating an empty text file in the root folder and changing its name to QTCF.dll.
After that, I’m out of ideas.
-Jeff
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Are you unable to open Encore on all of the machines? Or is the problem limited to one or a few?
If the latter, then try creating a new, temporary user account and running Encore from there. Does it work?
-Jeff
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Can you open Quicktime Player normally? If not, you may have file permission issues. Did this problem appear after an update of Quicktime or iTunes?
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You can use sufficiently repetitive background music – see the DVD menus for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The music is simple and repeats itself frequently, so that starting the music over with the next menu is hardly noticeable.
You can also use button transitions, where the audience is treated to a short video/audio clip between menus. So when the new menu appears and the music starts over, it will feel right to them.
-Jeff
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Thanks for that.
There are several indications from the MediaInfo data that your video is non-standard MPEG2 video; it certainly isn’t DVD-spec video. I’m surprised En didn’t reject the video completely.
It looks like an MPEG2 program stream (MPEG2-PS) instead of a video-only file. Again, this could be because of a bad rip.
The file shows a total bit rate well in excess of the DVD max of 9.8 Mbps, although the nominal bit rate is within specs. That dichotomy, along with the non-spec frame size of 352×480, is a problem that can’t be solved without re-ripping with different settings. And it may not be solvable at all.
If the video was recorded by a home DVD recorder, that could explain the issues. Unfortunately, it will also be a tough hurdle to overcome without re-transcoding the video.
-Jeff
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