Jeff Bellune
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Remove the end action from the 17th chapter. You don’t need it. Just set the end action for the timeline to go where you want when the Play All is done.
Make sure all overrides in the whole project are Not Set.
Don’t put any end actions on any of the chapters – that’s what the chapter playlists are for.
-Jeff
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If the first frame of the chapter is “black”, then En will search up to 5 seconds ahead to find a non-black frame to use as the poster frame. The new rectangle you see is the indicator of that new poster frame.
-Jeff
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1. When the AE comp appears in the En project panel, what is the duration shown in the project panel?
2. Did you ever transcode the AE comp from inside of En? It’s even possible that rendering the motion menu may have set and locked in a different duration. Does Encore 2.0 have the commands File | Revert to Original or File | Replace Asset? If so, try those.
-Jeff
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[David Sapadin] “On my Encore, I have to go to MENU > Create After Effects Composition to get the En menu into Ae. If I go to “File” there is nothing available except “Adobe Dynamic Link,” and if I click on “New After Effects Composition,” under that, then En indeed fires up Ae but it does not create anything except a comp, but the menu doesn’t come along with it. But with the En menu selected, if I go to MENU > Create After Effects Composition, then it fires up Ae and creates a comp and the folder with all the menu layers is in there too”
You’re right. Sorry. My mistake. In CS4 and CS5 you need the same command, Menu | Create After Effects Composition. (I’ve been working a lot with Pr CS5, En CS5 and the Adobe Media Encoder CS5, and File | Adobe Dynamic Link opens up useful import possibilities in En and the AME so the command is sort of stuck in my head.)
What you proposed should work perfectly.
-Jeff
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When you send the En menu to AE via File | Dynamic Link from En, does the original motion menu video clip show up in the AE project and comp? If so, just interpret the clip in AE to loop however many times you need it to in order to get the length of menu that you want back in En. Make sure to extend the clip layer and the comp to contain the full length that’s generated by the number of loops you chose.
When you get back to En, you shouldn’t have to make a second menu. Just set the loop point back to where the button/text animation ends and those elements are static over the motion background.
(PS – did you get your loop point issue solved?)
-Jeff
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[eric pautsch] “. I think its important to know that DVD doesn’t technically support true 24frames rates, Only 29.97”
Agreed.
-Jeff
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Thanks for that info. I was wrong about your source video.
The problem you describe is exactly what happens when the field order of the video is encoded or played back the opposite of the source video’s field order.
I still think it’s getting inverted somewhere along the line. Just to recap: you copied the VOB file(s) directly off of the DVD, and then re-named them to .mpg files for editing, right? You didn’t use any program to process them in any way before importing them into Pr?
-Jeff
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Hi Eric,
I can encode a 23.976 fps video to MPEG2, and get a 23.976 MPEG2 video file. When you say MPEG2 doesn’t support 23.976 fps video, are you saying it’s unsupported natively? That is, the 23.976 fps video only exists as a soft- or hard-telecined 29.97 fps stream? If so, I agree because I believe that’s technically accurate.
However, Hollywood soft-telecines their films for DVD, effectively putting that 23.976 fps video in a “virtual” 29.97 fps stream. The extra frames that are needed for 29.97 fps display don’t exist in the stored video file; only flags exist to tell the decoder what frames to duplicate. To my eye, there is a visible difference between a 23.976 fps video that’s been hard-telecined vs. one that’s been soft-telecined.
If your MPEG2 encoder can soft-telecine your 23.976 fps video, then that video can be put on DVD the same way that Hollywood films are, ostensibly increasing the film-like viewing experience of your video.
At least that’s my understanding. If you have different information, then I’d like to hear it because I really, really don’t want to be wrong about this.
-Jeff
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It’s for 23.976 in NTSC-land, and it’s also usable for PAL video. Normally for 29.97 fps video the settings are 3 and 15. What that does is put a new I-frame every half second, which usually works well for MPEG2 DVD video. (15 is half of 30 and 12 is half of 24.)
-Jeff
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