Joe Bowden
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The DVD player keeps the active subtitle track and audio track in memory when you switch them.
If you go to another timeline, as long as it has the same number of subtitle and/or audio tracks, those settings will remain, unless the link to the timeline changes them.
Conversely, if the other timeline does not have the same number of subtitle and/or audio tracks then this information will be discarded.
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[Marc Brown] My asset is raw, and I know Encore will add keyframes at chapter points when it compiles the entire disc build. But that’s a different process from when you right-click an asset and pick “transcode now”.
The only difference between the two is the timing of when the transcode is performed. If you use Transcode Now well before building, nothing will change with this particular asset at build time.
[Marc Brown] “The thing that worries me is that the raw video asset is separate from the timeline asset, and it’s only the timeline which contains the chapter points. And it’s probably possible in Encore to use the same video asset in more than one timeline, which would mean it would be possible to have two+ different sets of chapter points associated with the same video, prior to transcoding. “
Your raw video asset is unchanged in all of this. Encore uses the transcoded version of the asset created from the raw asset in the timeline when you build to Blu-ray or DVD.
It is possible to use the same asset in another timeline, but then it would be written to disc twice. If you used the same raw asset in different timelines with different chapter points, it would also be transcoded twice if the chapters didn’t fall in the same places or off the usual GOP timing (usually one per half-second).
Instead of using assets multiple times, in Encore you use multiple containers to display the asset, such as one timeline, and one or more chapter playlists, or multiple playlists. This is a more efficient workflow in Encore, and is a far more efficient use of disc space.
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Do all your timelines have the same number of audio and subtitle tracks?
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Specify Link works correctly.
I’m afraid I don’t understand your question. Can you rephrase it?
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If your asset is already encoded, Encore won’t let you place a chapter point where there’s not an I-frame (it will go to the nearest I-frame). If it’s not yet encode, it will transcode it so there’s an I-frame at your chapter point.
So yes, your chapter point will be where it’s set.
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In Encore, buttons loop at the end of the motion menu. Do you mean you want to be able to individually set when the button animations loop?
You can control start by resetting each chapter Poster Frame – but they will always loop at the end of the motion menu, not before.
The only way around this is to do your video background, including thumbnail animations, in Premiere or
After Effects, and then use this as your menu video background. -
Remove all chapter end actions.
Edit: GAH! Jeff beat me to this by hours!
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The problem here is PAL has 25 frames per second, and NTSC 29.97 fps. So, for example, that means frame 22 in PAL is not the same place in time as it is in NTSC.
If you want the subtitles to be in sync, you’ve got to recalculate them for NTSC. Try Lemony, which I believe can do this type of thing quickly.
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Yes, you can set this in the User Operations for a timeline.
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Have you got a serial number, or are you trying to run Encore in trial mode?