Joe Bowden
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Sorry, the board removed my backslashes…
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Go to C\:Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Encore\3.0, and delete AppPreferences.xml and ProjectWorskspace.xml.
Then try launching Encore again.
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Compressor. MainConcept also makes a standalone encoder for Windows and Mac.
But I would ask – did you use any custom presets in Encore? If you did, do you know the fundamentals of MPEG-2 encoding for DVD?
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Encore takes text files for subtitles (preferably UTF-8, if you have any language-specific special characters), so if you can convert them to text, you should be on your way to using them in Encore.
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[sietse bruggeling] “So, if I understand you correctly; I have to export from premiere as a mpeg2 in a lower resolution (so the file gets smaller) and then the total menu filesize will get smaller because encore does not have to transcode it again? “
That’s is the idea…but only if Encore does not have to transcode it. That means the MPEG-2 file must be DVD-legal, and it must not contain an audio stream (use a separate audio file instead), and there must be no layers in the menu file except button layer group with highlight layers – otherwise, Encore will have to render graphics into the video, and it will retranscode to its default MPEG-2 encoding setting for motion menus.
You might also want to do some bit budgeting to see how much video you can get into 1 GB.
If you pay attention to all the details I mentioned, Encore should not re-encode the video. Good luck.
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Dirty DVD Consortium commies… 🙂
It’s possible to make motion menus smaller if you do all your precomposing and encoding to MPEG-2 elsewhere (like in After Effects), and then make it a video background and add only add button highlights to the menu in Encore, no other layers. If you do this, Encore will not render the motion menu and therefore will not apply its default motion menu encoding setting.
Doing all this outside of Encore requires familiarity with AE, MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, and a good grasp of DVD subpicture overlays.
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The DVD-Video format has a 1 GB limitation on menu space.
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It’s not possible to do all that from a single menu, but it sounds like you’re on the right track…
You can do the first 2/3 (intro settling into menu) with a single motion menu using the Loop Point parameter to set the timecode of when the buttons become active. Of course, you do all the animation in AE or Premiere, leave some extra pad after the animation (say 15 seconds) for your last frame, then export a video file and use this as your video background in your motion menu.
The final piece (buttons dissolving out) you would do with a button transition. Basically create another animation once more in AE or Premiere, and then link your menu button transitions to this video file.
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I’d suspect the beta OS.
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Encore has offered chapter end actions since version 2.0.