Jeff Bellune
Forum Replies Created
-
You need to set your menu as “First Play”. Some hardware DVD players will not accept or read a disc that doesn’t have a menu set as FP.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
This *could* be a player issue – how long does it take a Hollywood DVD to switch between menus or to go back and forth between a menu and the movie?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
Letterboxing of widescreen footage is a function of the player, not Encore. Check the setup for the player that’s not doing it right.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
I think button transitions (Encore 2.0) can be as short as 1 GOP. Transitions that are in their own timeline should not be shorter than 2 seconds. You may be able to get away with timeline transitions that are at least one second in length, but you need to experiment to be sure.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
[keeping fingers crossed]
Just a random thought – did the source material into Sorenson change at all between attempts?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
Is Procoder involved in this at all? Here’s a post from the Adobe User-to-User forums:
We just completed and delivered a project that was 227 minutes long, containing 31 videos all encoded using Procoder. After much grief, lost time, and worry that our project or encodes were corrupt because of this problem, here’s what we learned. When you play back the videos in Encore, the playback engine doesn’t like Procoder encodes. So at the least you’ll see frames of weird, pixelated green, especially at the end of the video. At the worst you’ll get the error message and lockup.
The good news is, this is just a playback issue and has nothing to do with the integrity of the project or the video. We continued to build and master the project, and we had no problems creating our glass master and replicating 20,000 DVDs.
On one of the videos, it would lock the project as soon as I tried to put it in the timeline. All we did was go back to it in Premiere, and tweak the opening fade and/or closing fade, re-encode it and then no problem. We found that just re-encoding alone didn’t solve the problem. We also found with the problem videos, if we tweaked something in the edit and re-encoded it, that it would often solve the problem with that video.
By the way, Premiere Pro 2 uses the same playback engine and will also lockup if you try to play your Procoder encodes in that version of Premiere.
Plus, if you are importing DVD-compliant MPEG video into Encore, and it meets Encore file format and frame size restrictions (check the Help files), then you should *not* be able to transcode it again in Encore. A second transcoding of MPEG video that is already transcoded will result in a horrible generational loss of quality.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
Thank you for the kind words.
No apologies necessary for basic questions. One can usually tell when someone mostly knows what they are doing, but can’t make it work in Encore the way they think it should be done. (My book should help out a lot with stuff like that) 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
[MReilly] “my video won’t play as a background”
You must render motion menus before they preview (File>Render>Motion Menus). Your test disc should play OK because the menus will get rendered when the project is built.
Your existing export settings should be OK.
[MReilly] “if i try to rearrange the thumbnails the pickwhip gets crazy and tries to super connect everything”
Press the M key or click on the Move tool in the toolbar.
[MReilly] “can only the video/audio assets be transcoded at a high setting? or can i set the entire disk? or the menus?”
Menu transcoding is fixed. You can change the transcode settings for audio and video assets. If you create a slideshow (Encore 2.0), then Encore will transcode the still images as single I-frames instead of MPEG video. Transitions between slides and slides with pan and/or zoom will be transcoded as MPEG video.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
What’s the PAR of the comp in AE? What codec did you use to export?
Typically if there is a PAR mismatch, then you see distorted images, not cut off images. So the PAR issue may not be relevant. But it is worth checking into because your initial import attempt at 720×540 indicates that you used square pixels in, or exporting from, AE.
The codec may be more important. Some codecs like DivX can do odd things in Encore.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
If the asset you are importing is a video file that you exported from After Effects, then Alt+Dragging the asset to the menu while it is active in the Menu Viewer should work.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0