[Jeff Pulera]

Media Encoder creates the assets that are DVD-compliant, but those assets still must be run through an authoring program. Media Encoder creates the content for the DVD, but not the DVD itself. It’s a media encoder, not a DVD software. There is a big difference.

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[Jeff Pulera]

You cannot simply burn the MPEG-2 DVD clips onto a disc and have a DVD. Rather, a DVD must be authored using appropriate software. In the end, the DVD disc will have a VIDEO_TS folder on it full of .vob files. These are all created by the authoring software. Anything else is not “DVD-legal” and will not play in set-top DVD players.

For Adobe users, the obvious choice would be Adobe Encore CS6. There is no CC version of Encore, but if you subscribe to CC you can download Premiere CS6 and Encore CS6 comes with it. It can installed alongside Premiere CC.

https://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html

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[Jeff Pulera]

Video and still images typically use RGB color, Red-Green-Blue, and those 3 channels mix to produce all the colors. Sometimes you want parts of the image to be transparent, for instance putting a title or logo graphic on top of the video. In this case, an fourth layer, or alpha channel is added to the image or video and this layer simply determines the level of transparency for each pixel – opaque, invisible, or somewhere in between.

So the PNG of the still image of TV that was uploaded has alpha channel – the TV screen area and area surrounding the TV cabinet will be transparent. Put your background image (the room) on Video 1, put video clip on Video 2, the put the TV graphic on Video 3. The center of the TV is “cut out” and the video beneath will show through the hole.

Of course, use Motion Effect (Position and Scale) on layers 2 and 3 to size and align them as needed.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Funny thing, I just did a Google Image search for “old tv” and found…your exact TV! Except this one already had the alpha channel, just put it on top of the video and voila!

[Jeff Pulera]

This is the simple way, but doesn’t look very good. If you post the TV graphic without the video on it, I can maybe build the mask from it for you

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[Jeff Pulera]

Under Motion > Scale, uncheck Uniform Scaling, then you can change the X and Y settings independently, since it looks like you need to make the image a bit taller. But really, if you want it to fit the shape of the screen which is rounded on the sides, I would create a Mask in Photoshop and use that to precisely fit the video to look realistic.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mike,

I don’t know the difference between slipping and nudging. However, my audio clips are always unlinked from video before I try moving them. After reading your post, I tried switching to Audio Units and then “moving” the audio of a linked clip, and sure enough the counter seems to indicate I have moved (offset) the audio, so maybe that is what you are referring to?

Try unlinking if you haven’t and see if that helps

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[Jeff Pulera]

Just for reference, 1080i is ALWAYS Upper Field First, LFF version does not officially exist. Just mentioning that so you don’t end up with custom Sequence of 1080i LFF as a fix somehow, as that would not be a good deliverable to anyone.

But I agree, field issues are never any fun.

Say, would you be able to post a short clip for download somewhere so that we could experiment with solutions?

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Romina,

If the source is 50i, and you export as 25p, that should work without any other steps, will be deinterlaced during export. Try a sample first and make sure it looks good though. I’ve done this with 60i to 30p before.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mike,

I had been having the same issue some time ago with CS6. I want to say that my fix was to return to frames display, then put a razor cut near beginning of the audio clip to “lock it in”. If memory serves. Think about it – if you nudge the end of the audio clip to what is basically a position between two frames, then return to frame display, how does Premiere show where the end of the clip is, since it falls between the frames? Not saying that behavior is correct to start with, but I believe that was my fix.

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