[Jeff Bellune]

Hi carlos,

Try this fix from the Adobe forums:

https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc44cc3

-Jeff

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[Jeff Bellune]

Thanks, Aharon! I’ve seen some of your work in AE and with pI, and that’s quite a compliment coming from you. I was happy with the way it turned out, but I never thought it would be considered the “best” of anything. 🙂

I hadn’t considered a tut, but I will.

I’m on vacation until next week; let me explore some ideas when I get back.

Best,
-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the kind words and for the “spray” advice!

I used the Star Trail 2.0 emitter. Typically I animated the entire emitter’s zoom property to account for camera zooms. On some shots I had to adjust the size of the big glow particle to keep it reasonably sized wrt to the rest of the emitter.

I tried tracking the balls in AE, but the ball moved behind obstructions too often for me to get a good enough track.

That left me with performing roto in pI, which I did. I exported each background clip from AE as a 648×480 HuffYUV .avi file so that pI would accept it as a background. The emitter stage was also sized to 648×480

With very few exceptions, each position keyframe in pI was created “curved”. That allowed me to adjust the bezier handles to account for changes in both ball position and ball acceleration over several frames without having to add a keyframe for each frame. Not having a keyframe for every frame also smoothed out the motion of the particles quite a bit.

Once I had the emitter’s path complete for a given clip, I imported the emitter into AE as a 32-bit .png sequence. Then I dropped it into a 720×480 (0.9 PAR) comp and started masking. That involved more roto work because I needed the emitter trails to be behind some players and in front of others. So I animated the masks field-by-field in 59.94 fps comp to make sure that the emitter trails appeared to be behind the players when appropriate.

If you’d like any examples of my pI or AE projects, I’d be happy to email them to you (sans footage, of course).

Best,
-Jeff

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[Jeff Bellune]

What version of Encore?

It seems like Encore thinks your project is a dual-layer disc project.

The project settings are in different places in Encore 2.0 and in Encore CS3.

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Set the Menu Remote item in the timeline’s Properties panel to “Return to Last Menu”.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

This can be done with scripting, but Encore doesn’t support scripting yet.

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

At this point we need to know a lot more about your project.

The easiest way to see what’s going on is for you to post a screenshot of your Project panel, with all columns visible. You can temporarily maximize the Project panel in Encore 2.0 and CS3 by pressing the tilde (~) key.

If you don’t want to do that, then I recommend doing a “Revert to Original” operation on each asset, and then setting the transcode settings for each one to Automatic.

What is the total length of your project, in terms of running time?

-Jeff

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[Jeff Bellune]

Just create your 16:9 project.

It’s up to the DVD player to display it correctly. The player depends on correct input from the audience for setting how 16:9 material should be displayed on their TV.

-Jeff

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[Jeff Bellune]

Depending on your source material, render each of the 9 projects out separately to DV .avi files (or uncompressed .avi files), then import the 9 .avi files into a project.

Once the .avi files are added to the project, stitch them together end-to-end in a single timeline and export that as a single .avi file (using the same codec that you used for the 9 files individually).

Import the stitched-together .avi file into Encore and you should be able to author your DVD the way you want.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

I don’t think Shift+Ctrl deletes the prefs file; you have to do that manually.

I would also try updating the drivers for your on-board sound – especially if it is RealTek.

-Jeff

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