Joe Bowden
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OK, so that leaves out using dynamic link from Premiere – you would need Encore CS4 for that.
You could export an uncompressed AVI, or you could use Export to Encore, which is very much like exporting to MPEG-2 except I believe you have less control over the MPEG-2 encoding. If you choose to export the video to MPEG-2 for DVD using one of Premiere’s AME presets, you should be able to choose a preset of high quality – just make sure you don’t multiplex the video and audio together. You want the end result to be an MPEG-2 stream (m2v) and an uncompressed WAV file, 16 bit, 48 kHz.
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Uncompressed source is always best, but not always possible since most consumer camcorders use some form of compression when capturing video.
That said, it’s always better to reduce or eliminate re-compression before bringing an asset into Encore. There are several ways to do that:
1. Export an uncompressed AVI as you mentioned
2. Use Dynamic Link in CS4, which will not recompress video before encoding in Encore, again as you mentioned
3. Frame serve with third-party tools, which is similar to option 2 but more work to setup
4. Encode video to MPEG-2 for DVD from Premiere (Encore, Premiere, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder all use the same engine to encode MPEG-2 for DVD). -
Don’t use Dynamic Link for this – export a PSD from AE, and then import this a menu in Encore.
Then use Dynamic Link for your menu video/audio background.
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Have you set any overrides in your project, anywhere at all?
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In DVD-Video, menus can only have a single audio track – buttons don’t offer any sounds, just highlight layers.
However, you could make a separate menu for every button, and link each button to its own menu with its own audio track, and use the Auto-Activate button property to switch to the next menu when the button is selected.
The limitations are linking everything up will be very tedious if you have more than just a few buttons, and if the DVD is played in a software DVD player and the user mouses over a button, it will not go to the linked menu unless the button is actually clicked.
If you can live with the limitations, this is the way to do it.
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Total video and audio bit rate can’t exceed 48 Mbps, but video bit rate is limited to 40 Mbps.
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Also, the maximum video bit rate for Blu-ray is 40 Mbps.
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Not true, Encore transcodes to H.264 directly without transcoding to MPEG-2 at all.
EDIT: Encore will also pass through H.264 files that are Blu-ray legal without re-transcoding.
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Nothing there rings any alarm bells…was the source video originally 23.976 fps?
Have you tried encoding to MPEG-2 for Blu-ray?
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What brand of media did you use, and what’s the source of your video? Source specs, and transcoding settings?