Joe Bowden
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15 frames (more accurately, 1/2 second) is the minimum size of a video clip on a DVD.
Most likely what is occurring is the player has nothing to hold when going from one clip to another. Try making your transitions 1 second and see if the problem still occurs.
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Try multiple playlists?
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The feature request has been made before, but there is strength in numbers. The more a feature is requested, the more likely it is to be implemented in a future version (but I by that, I don’t mean hitting submit a dozen times ;)…)
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A widescreen menu with more than 18 buttons is out of spec. You may not see any problems in some players, but others may refuse to play them.
Best to stick to the well-established limit for widescreen…18 buttons.
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It used to be $400, if I remember correctly…so in comparison, $100 is quite a bargain.
Regarding features “that encore should already have”, you should file a feature request at Adobe’s website.
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Is your menu widescreen? Because 18 buttons is the limit on a widescreen menu, required by the DVD-Video spec.
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In general, no.
Button highlight subpictures on a DVD are indexed, 2-bit color, which means only one color and opacity value is possible per index. You can have three separate values (e.g. =1, =2, =3) in Encore, and mix and match them, but effects like blurs, glows, drop shadows and gradients are not possible using standard DVD subpicture button highlights.
You can do these sorts of effects if you have a separate menu for each button state, but it’s a lot of linking work if you have more than a few buttons. Also, these type of menu-to-menu buttons are generally slower than standard button highlights using the subpicture layer, and some DVD players switch from menu to menu more slowly than others.
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Encore doesn’t recognize volumes that are 1 TB or larger.
Try creating a smaller partition, and Encore should no longer complain about it.
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Try unchecking “Optimize Stills” in the Make Movie dialog (Settings button), then re-export the AVI. Probably best to rename the AVI before exporting, unless you feel adventurous. Then import the AVI in Encore.
Does that fix it for you?
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The AVIs…do they have stills or titles in them?
If so, did you create them in PPro?