Jeff Bellune
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Normally this is a result of how a particular player handles user operations vs. VTS navigation.
If you try the disc on a non-Sony brand DVD player and the issue does not occur then you know that it’s an problem between Sony and the disc structure.
I’ll also say that for some DVD authors, this behavior on your Sony players is desirable because it allows them to put each chapter in a separate VTS. Then they have the flexibility to do a “Play All” function *and* an individual chapter play function using timelines as chapters.
Anyway, none of that solves your immediate problem. What you should do is add a “dummy” chapter point on the last GOP of each timeline. When the audience presses the skip button, playback will jump to the dummy chapter point, and, depending on the length of the last GOP, the end action of the timeline will execute anywhere from immediately to 1/2 second later.
(Zoom way in to your timeline to reveal the GOP boundary tick marks in the time ruler)
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Not directly, but you can add a black slide at the beginning and fade into the first “real” slide.
Ditto at the end of the show.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You’re welcome. 🙂
AC3 audio is just dandy in Encore, and it has the added benefit of being one of the two audio formats that are *required* to be played by all DVD players.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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The only things I can think of are:
1. You accidentally trimmed the end of the clip in Encore’s timeline.
2. You have a chapter point set at the beginning of the credits, and have set the end action for the previous chapter point incorrectly.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Using your example, you would need a chapter marker (call it chapter A) that is linked to the scene button on the menu, and you would need a new chapter marker (call it chapter B) 1:30 after chapter A.
When the audience selects the button on the menu that links to chapter A, chapter A would play until chapter B was reached (a duration of 1:30). Once playback reached chapter B, the chapter end action for chapter A would execute and return the audience to the scene selection menu.
Does that help?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I have no idea what would cause a normal DV avi file to behave like that in Encore. It’s possible the file is corrupted in some way.
A good troubleshooting step is to transcode the video and audio in Premiere Pro.
First, note what bitrate Encore used to transcode the partial file.
Use that same bitrate in an MPEG2-DVD preset in the Adobe Media Encoder to encode the file in Premiere Pro. I recommend turning Multiplexing off.
Then import the mpeg video and PCM audio files into Encore and use them to make your main program timeline.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I always prefer elementary streams as opposed to a single multiplexed file.
If you don’t want to do separate elementary audio and video streams, then see if you can tweak the template in Vegas to allow PCM or DD audio.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Try doing a Transcode Now operation on the troublesome .avi file instead letting Encore transcode it at build time.
What happens?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0