Joe Bowden
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That’s the one…give that a try, it may work for you.
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Frippy, of course both Premiere and After Effects can convert NTSC to PAL, or vice versa.
There may be better (more expensive) ways to do this, but Premiere and After Effects are also capable of doing it with acceptable results.
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First of all, you can only burn an 8.4 GB DVD if you have a dual-layer burner, and Encore supports only DVD+R DL burning.
If you want to fit it onto a single layer disc, you’ll have to transcode it so it will fit. What type of video asset(s) are you using in Encore?
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Encore always transcodes the entire clip, and not just what is in the timeline.
If you want to take less time transcoding, then do your editing in Premiere or your NLE of choice and export a shorter clip.
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Encore always transcodes 704×480 video due to how subtitles are handled- even if you don’t use subtitles in your project.
You could try patching the MPEG file headers so they read as 720 wide instead of 704. I forget the name of the application that does this, but you could search for it on the web.
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Audio and video always loop in a motion menu.
What effect are you trying to achieve?
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File > Render > Motion Menus
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The quickest way is not the best, and the best way is not the quickest.
Quickest way is to just send them an NTSC disc. Many PAL players can also play NTSC DVDs which they send out as a variant of PAL. But not all PAL players can do this, and if they do, not all PAL televisions will play them.
The best way is to convert your video to PAL. You can do this in Premiere or After Effects. Then create a PAL project in Encore and rebuild.
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Nature of DVD-Video subpictures, I’m afraid. My last advice on this would be to simplify your subpicture shape to minimize the nastiness.
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Try lowering the opacity.
If there’s a solid background color, you could add another subpicture layer (=2) that’s the same color as the background (with lower opacity) that surrounds the first subpicture layer.