Joe Bowden
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Ah, wait. Re-reading your post, I think I see what you mean is this happens within the same menu.
Have you tried burning a DVD RW and testing it in a DVD player?
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Actually, this is the way motion menus work in DVD-Video: each motion menu has its own (and only one) video and audio track.
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[John Rich] “Since Encore is going to have to finally generate a 1920×1080 sized video for the disk, then anything it gets other than that ie as an asset imported into it, will not be “BluRay Legal”? “
But that’s actually not what happens. Maybe this is key to understanding it?
It’s the Blu-ray player that outputs the resolution of the monitor, and if necessary, scaling video up or down depending on the monitor resolution versus frame size of your video.
Blu-ray legal frame sizes are 1920×1080, 1440×1080, 1280×720, and 720×480. Of course, three of those frame sizes are high definition, and the last is standard definition.
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Maybe it’s just that I am dense, but I’m not sure what you are asking here.
In general, when encoding to MPEG-2 or H.264, it is best to let your source video be your guide. So if your source is HDV 1440x1080i @29.97, then that should be your encoding settings for MPEG-2 or H.264. That frame size and frame rate are Blu-ray legal, and the preset that matches them should be used.
When you import the encoded MPEG-2 or H.264 file into Encore, it should not have to be re-transcoded for Blu-ray output (but it would for DVD or Flash output).
Does that help?
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The inner rectangle is the title safe area; the outer rectangle is the action safe area, and they are 80% and 90% of the entire frame rectangle, respectively.
Use title safe for everything that must appear on the screen.
But note that video safe area really only applies to 4:3 CRT television monitors. High definition monitors don’t really need safe area and should display the entire frame.
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If the frame size and frame rate are Blu-ray legal, then Encore should not re-encode it unless you mix it with video that has a different frame size or frame rate in the same timeline – then the project preset frame size/rate kicks in.
But if it’s already Blu-ray legal, it should not be re-encoded if it’s in its own timeline.
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Sorry John…your question isn’t quite clear to me. What’s the original frame rate of your AVI? You should use the same frame rate (and frame size) for MPEG-2 for Blu-ray.
Note that Premiere does have Blu-ray encoding settings specifically for MPEG-2 and H.264. Try one of those first.
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DVD-Video doesn’t support this feature for menus. But you can work around it.
You need a separate menu for each time you want the background to change, and link to each new menu via buttons set to Auto-Activate. When the button linked to the new menu is selected, it then activates, taking you to the next menu.
The disadvantage to this method is if you mouse over the button in a software DVD player, it will not auto-activate. The user must click the button to go to the next menu. Limitation of the format.
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Encore CS3 and later shows two transcoding statuses (statii?): one for DVD, and another for Blu-ray.
Presumably, you are looking at DVD transcoding status?
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No, the other way around. Make computer 2’s drive letter matches what it is on computer 1.