[Jeff Pulera]

My experience has been that when you create the new title in titler, when you exit the titler, the title clip is added to the bin, AND is highlighted already. If it is not highlighted for you, not sure why. Did you do any other actions before “Replace”? If you go directly to timeline to do Replace immediately after exiting titler, it should work.

The clip in the timeline should not need to be highlighted first – just right-clicking the timeline clip brings up the drop down with the Replace option for that clip.

Glad it is helping you

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[Jeff Pulera]

I don’t know if that is an option, just right-click any SINGLE clip instead and see. Are you on Mac or PC? Sometimes there are little differences

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[Jeff Pulera]

I do prefer to leave the “Scale to Frame Size” checked in Preferences, that way everything I import always fits the frame. On the occasion that I don’t want a clip scaled, I can manually right-click the clip in the sequence and change it.

To be clear, if you turn on the feature in Preferences, it does NOT affect clips already imported, only affects imports after making the change. For already imported clips, do it manually as suggested by Tero.

720p clips should look fine in the 1080p project.

Thank you

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[Jeff Pulera]

Nery,

Are you using Dynamic Link from Premiere, or did you encode your assets from Premiere using Adobe Media Encoder? If AME, what is the data rate?

Also, if you imported assets into Encore, I believe that if you trim the video at all, it then needs to transcode again = quality loss. So maybe not worth the 5 seconds you trimmed.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Patrick,

You can put as much video as you want on a DVD, being aware that the lower data rate will reduce quality. With talking head videos, 3 hours can look fine…all depends on the footage. I routinely make dance recital DVDs of 150-165 minutes, never a complaint. Have never made a dual-layer project myself (cost of media, incompatibility woes).

There are many “data rate calculator” apps online, just search, otherwise a formula I got from Adobe is 560/minutes=data rate. For instance 560/135=4.148 and then I round down a bit for safety. A setting of 4.0 should be safe, while 4.1 might cut it close. Will you use animated menus that might take additional space?

Definitely use 2-pass VBR for better quality encoding.

About the Dolby encoding, unless you paid for the SurCode upgrade, your audio export options from CS4 Media Encoder would not include Dolby. Standard practice is to encode “PCM” audio which is a .wav file, and then Encore will transcode to Dolby. If you have Dolby available in your AME, then by all means go for it. The CS6 version of AME now includes the Dolby stereo encoder, which outputs an .ac3 file.

Thank you

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Olivia,

On the PC, just hold the CTRL key and you can drag the title from the Bin down to timeline and “insert” the title between two clips. The clips to the right will automatically move over to make room, since you are holding CTRL. On Mac, could be CMD or something?

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Derek,

Here’s what I do –

Take existing title and place a copy on timeline where you want the next title to be. Double-click it to open in Titler, then use aforementioned method of “New Title based on current”. Modify title and exit. Right-click title on timeline (on PC, Mac may be different) and select “Replace with Clip from Bin”. This will “update” the title to the new version you just created.

So, you could create the original “template” title off which all subsequent titles will be based, and actually use that throughout as a placeholder, and then just open-modify-replace as needed.

Example – I shoot six dance recital shows, each with 40 acts. That’s 240 titles. I create the first title and place it, add cross dissolves at both ends and adjust length. This is my master, and then that same title gets pasted between each dance scene, dissolves already applied! Then I can just quickly go through and modify content of each title and replace. Very efficient.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Soumendra,

I’m not a fan of Dynamic Link, so your first try was correct in exporting the “MPEG-2 DVD” files. As mentioned though, you must bring the exported video and audio file into Encore using “Import as Timeline”, and then burn to DVD from there, so that the correct file structure and format is created for DVD playback.

I would like to add that exporting a single .mpg file (multiplexed audio) from Media Encoder is NOT a correct workflow for Encore. By default, the “MPEG-2 DVD” preset in AME will create .m2v and .wav files. This is what you want. Encore will convert the uncompressed .wav audio directly into high-quality Dolby AC-3 audio for you automatically.

If you set “Multiplexing” in AME to “DVD”, it will combine the audio and video into a single file. The problem is that the audio is compressed as MPEG audio, which is a lower quality than Dolby. Then, Encore must de-mux (separate) the audio and video, and then re-encode the already compressed audio into Dolby. This means extra encoding time and definite quality loss. Stick with the .wav audio, or if you have CS6, you can export direct to Dolby AC-3.

So, in Export settings for MPEG-2 DVD, set “Multiplexing” to NONE. Under AUDIO tab, select PCM to create the .wav file, or with CS6, you can choose “Dolby”. Use the default “Dolby Digital” and NOT the “SurCode” option, which is a surround encoder that you must purchase. Older versions of Encore all have the SurCode trial, but NOT the stereo Dolby encoder, so just use PCM in that case.

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nery,

Curious – what is the length of the video?

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Wendell,

When I record stereo in camera, with a different mic on each channel, I just leave the audio as stereo in Premiere and use the “Fill Left” or “Fill Right” effects to choose which channel is heard, on both L and R channels. If alternating between using L and R source, I Razor cut where the switch is, and apply a short crossfade.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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