Jeff Bellune
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Disable all user operations for the notice timeline.
-Jeff
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Unfortunately, this method does not work for software DVD players. There is no workaround.
-Jeff
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You’re welcome. Thanks for posting your solution. 🙂
-Jeff
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What type of audio is used for the source, and what type of audio is Encore set to output?
-Jeff
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If your imported asset for the timeline was an mpeg file, then Encore can only put chapter markers on GOP boundaries. Those can be as much as 15 frames (1/2 second in NTSC) away from the frame where you set the chapter marker.
-Jeff
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You can only do this with multiple copies of the menu and the auto-activate feature of Encore’s menu buttons.
Be advised – auto-activate won’t work on software DVD players.
-Jeff
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This indicates to me that somewhere in your production pipeline, (recording, capture, editing or export), you have deinterlaced your footage or made it progressive.
Find out where that is happening and change things so that you keep your interlaced source footage interlaced.
-Jeff
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Another concern is your display device; where are you viewing the DVD when you see the ghosting and flickering? Is it on a computer only? How about an HDTV or a regular interlaced TV?
Another question and something you can try:
Did you keep LFF all through the editing and export of the video from PPro?
As a quick test, export a small segment of your PPro timeline just like you did for the whole timeline.
Import that small segment into Encore and transcode it with Upper Field First.
Burn it to an RW disc and try playing it back again on whatever device you used the first time. Results?
-Jeff
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It sounds like you have somehow inverted the field order of your footage.
What is the format, codec and field order of your source footage and what are your Encore transcode settings?
-Jeff
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[Bill in Toronto] “I guess an initial question is can I produce a dual-layer DVD disk with Encore with this amount of video to ensure good video quality.”
Yes.
[Bill in Toronto] “As I say, I’ve created a movie in AVI DV. Does that give the clearest images and let Encore “transcode” (that means compress to another format, doesn’t it?)”
DV AVI is very good. The very best format to use to go from Premiere to Encore is uncompressed AVI, but that’s generally not necessary. Uncompressed produces unnecessarily large file sizes. You’re correct; transcoding does mean converting one codec/format to DVD-legal MPEG2.
[Bill in Toronto] “I assume by “asset” is meant the video output or stills I intend to use? I don’t understand the difference between Importing an “asset” and a timelines, menu or slideshow. Aren’t they all assets?”
There is an important difference. Yes, an asset is the video output or stills that you intend to use. But they can’t be used on a DVD unless they are put in a “container” like a timeline, a menu or a slideshow. Those things are called objects, and Encore uses the objects to build the DVD so that DVD players can recognize them and handle them properly for playback. DVD players expect to see certain types of objects laid out in certain ways on the disc, per the master DVD Specification. Creating timelines, menus and slideshows allows Encore to create the objects that DVD players need. Your raw assets simply won’t do.
[Bill in Toronto] “Don’t see where to add music.”
With a menu selected in the Project panel or the Menu viewer active, Look at the Motion tab of the Properties panel. You can pickwhip the audio for the menu to the audio asset in the Project panel that you want to use.
-Jeff
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