Jeff Bellune
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Three ways:
1. Create separate timelines for each training/mystery segment. The end action of the timelines will link to an appropriate menu.
2. Use Chapter End Actions to link to the menus if you won’t need the whole thing to play back seamlessly.
3. Use Chapter Playlists instead of Chapter End Actions if you will need seamless playback of the whole program.
-Jeff
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The only way that I know to do this is to make the inset subject videos part of the video background that you create in your NLE or compositing app.
-Jeff
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The last frame of the video will be displayed until the audio loops.
All DVD menus have a break when the menu loops. In Encore’s preview, the break is longer and more noticeable than on the finished DVD. High-quality DVD players will have only a very slight pause, and lower-end DVD players will have a longer pauses while the laser seeks to the beginning of the menu again.
-Jeff
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You can link to chapter points but not to PDF files.
You can include PDF files on the disc, but the user would have to use a computer to browse to the file to open it.
-Jeff
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Create a new NTSC En project. Then go back to Premiere and try again.
Is the new untitled project that Pr creates NTSC?
-Jeff
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There are 2 free tools you can use:
Don’t worry about the Quicktiome playback module for MPEG Streamclip, you can find out the bit rate info without it.
Bitrate Viewer is usually excellent, but sometimes it gives odd results. It’s a good idea to run your clips through both programs and examine the results. It takes MPEG Streamclip a long time to examine your file (about 10 – 15 minutes for a 2-hour clip). Bitrate Viewer takes about 5 minutes for a 2-hour clip.
Any Peak bitrate over 9 Mbps in Bitrate Viewer is cause for concern. I would be worried about anything over 8 Mbps reported by MPEG Streamclip.
-Jeff
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Thank you, Walter. I mean that sincerely.
Your last post conveys useful information to a fellow author based on your real-world experiences, and even adds a touch of humor at the end.
Best regards,
-Jeff
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Hi Joe,
If you like where Encore puts your layer break, then DL in En is easy. If you don’t like where En puts your layer break, then things get a lot harder very fast.
Here is a link to Neil Wilkes’ guide to manually setting a legal layer break that is close to where you want it. Warning: don’t read that guide unless you have to; it can be intimidating. 🙂
[Joe Garcia] “With this larger media at my disposal can I assume short jobs (1 hour or so) will be of greater quality and appearance since I’ll not need allot of compression?”
With 1 hour or less of program content, disc space is not the limiting factor – bit rate is. For burned discs, you probably shouldn’t go over 7 Mbps for the video portion. If you have quality blank media, a good burner with the latest firmware, and limit your burn speeds to the lower of 1/2 the rated speed of the media or the burner, then you may get away with as much as 8 Mbps.
Most modern software encoders produce excellent results at any bit rate over 6 Mpbs.
-Jeff
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I think this is a bug in how the clip gets handed off to Encore. The creation of the “Untitled Project” in En trumps whatever you typed in the box in Pr. Ideally, the new En project would get the same name as what you typed in the box.
AFAIK, choosing to author with menus is the only workaround.
-Jeff
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