Jeff Bellune
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Flash export from Encore is painfully slow. Your extrapolated times are not unexpected.
-Jeff
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I think you have to make the DVD burner the Primary device on the IDE bus.
This involves physically changing its position on the ribbon cable.
-Jeff
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[Dand9959] “In future releases the CS3 installer ought to force or suggest a reboot at the end of the install.”
FWIW, when I installed CS3, one of the “finish” buttons was captioned, “Finish and Restart”.
-Jeff
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The first thing I would do is run chkdsk on all of your drives to see if this or any other file system errors show up.
Have you moved or otherwise “disconnected” the project folder from its original location or from the project file? Are any of your assets stored on a network, removable media or external drive?
PS – CS3 is working well for me (and for most folks), but some users are reporting that they think 2.0 was more stable. FWIW.
-Jeff
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You should provide some more information about your system (CPU, graphics card and driver version and date, installed RAM, and available hard disk space).
You should also provide information about codecs that are installed on your system, as well as any other video software (players, converters, editing software, authoring software, etc.)
General errors like this are hard to pin down. I can’t duplicate the error here using the steps you listed, so most likely the clues will all have to come from you.
-Jeff
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Are you sure your button routing is correct?
Are you sure you are using the correct commands on the hardware/software DVD players to get to the menu(s)?
Are you sure you have explicitly set the correct menu button number as the target of the link to the menu?
Do you have any overlapping buttons?
Screen shots of your Menu Viewer with Show Button Routing selected, and of your Flowchart panel, would help.
-Jeff
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What version of Encore?
In CS3, you can give each chapter an end action (for individual play) and add all chapters to a single chapter playlist for the Play All function. In CS3, there are no limitations or restrictions on the use of chapter playlists in this way.
In 2.0 you can split your main timeline (using your NLE) into 2 or more less-than-18-chapter timelines and use chapter playlists again as described above. Or, you can stay in Encore and give each chapter its own playlist (for individual playback) and use the main timeline (with no chapter end actions) for the Play All function.
In 1.x, you will need separate timelines for each chapter regardless.
-Jeff
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You must use the auto-activate feature of Encore and link the buttons to identical copies of the menu. The menu copies will play the sounds and show the video clips when they activate.
This effect can be seamless if you don’t use video as a background for the whole menu.
-Jeff
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For Standard Definition DVDs, either Premiere or Encore will have to transcode and downres the HD Cineform content. You can do it in Encore as you have described, or export from PPro at SD DVD resolution as I mentioned earlier.
-Jeff
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Did you successfully import the file into Encore?
Is Encore where the letterboxed image appears?
If yes to both questions, then check that Encore is interpreting the footage correctly. Go to File>Interpret Footage and make sure Encore knows that the file has square pixels.
If that doesn’t work, rather than trying to troubleshoot why not, I suggest you export from PPro as 720×480 with a PAR of 1.2. Then import that file into Encore. If Encore interprets the PAR correctly, then you should get a nice widescreen DVD out of Encore.
-Jeff
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