Joe Bowden
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There’s no way to do it automatically in Encore.
However, you can reduce the labor involved using the hot text timecode field in the Timeline tab. Click in it and enter +30000 to jump the CTI forward 3 minutes, then add a chapter point using the asterisk * keyboard shortcut.
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Encore-authored DVDs play fine in WMP on all my systems.
The key is that a software DVD player (such as PowerDVD) must be installed on a system in order to playback DVD-Video. Windows Media Player alone does not have the licensed MPEG-2 video decoders required for playback.
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Encore should be able to calculate the bit rate and compress accordingly. However, you can’t squeeze blood from a stone, so to speak. 150 minutes of video with a single audio track compressed to Dolby Digital onto a DVD-5 leaves you with a bit rate of approximately 3.869 Mbps- certainly in the low end of bandwidth for DVD-Video.
It may not look horrible, depending on the type of video (lots of motion requires more bandwidth to display with quality). But the quality will not be great due to the lack of bandwidth.
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Three DVDs? I’m sorry…I overlooked that detail.
Then you should be able to do it with multiple timelines, no trouble at all. I would recommend using a playlist (Encore 1.5) to create a link for the Play All button. But yes, you will need two menus if you have more than 36 timelines to link to. You can do it in such a way that it appears like a single menu using Auto-Activate for the last button of menu 1 and the first button of menu 2, but it means some of your buttons will not be active depending on which menu you’re at.
Hope this helps,
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There is no way to do what you are trying to accomplish in a single Encore timeline, so if it’s imperative that a user be able to play only one sequence and then return to a menu, then you will have to use multiple timelines.
The problem is, you are limited to 99 timelines (each timeline is a VTS, and only 99 VTS can exist on a DVD).
Finally, you are limited in the number of buttons in a single menu (36 is the maximum for DVD-Video), and the number of colors you can use in a menu for button highlights (16).
With this in mind, you may want to reconsider the project to fit within the limitations of Encore (the first issue I mentioned) and the DVD format itself (the others).
-Joe
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(what do the overrides do anyway?)
Don’t use an override unless you know exactly what it does. 🙂
Try removing all overrides from all buttons and timelines and see if that solves your problem.
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Only Encore 1.5.1 can burn to dual layer DVD+R. If you are using 1.5, go to Adobe’s download page amd upgrade.
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Feel free, David. And thanks for the tutorials you’ve posted- I can see from this forum that you’ve helped a lot of users.
Cheers,
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I think Adobe could improve this feature by allowing the user to sort the timelines in the playlist alphabetically and otherwise. It would also be nice to have the ability to select all the timelines and do a global import to the playlist instead of this “one at a time” stuff.
Bill, try this: Sort your timelines in the Project window, then select them all and create a new playlist.
The new playlist should be fully populated and sorted as in the Project window.
Enjoy,
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Hi Michael,
The button bounding box is the smallest rectangle which can fit around the layers within the button layer set. If you’re finding it larger than it seems to need to be, have you got any hidden layers that might be adding to the size of the rectangle? Try deleting them, and your button rectangle should get correspondingly smaller.
If not, do you have any ‘stray’ pixels in an otherwise transparent layer? That could also cause the problem. You’d have to clean those up in Photoshop.
Regards,
Jeo