Joe Kauffman
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I haven’t contacted support yet…as I’m still running CS3. My tunnel vision was set to just finish up my latest project, then make the necessary adjustments & changes.
Going off memory, I think I was running Pinnacle Liquid 6.0 at the time and haven’t touched any Avid products since that release. Would you say that Liquid 7.2 is the most directly comparable software Avid offers to PP? I’ve been reading a bit about the Media Composer software that sounds intriguing.
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I have a good dedicated video production machine currently running Quad Xeon processors, dual FX570 vid cards, 4 gigs of ram and 1tb of space. One of the reasons I upgraded to this machine was hoping I would get some better stability out of the CS3 suite.
I have been very curious of any buggy type fixes that may have been released with CS4 which is one of my reasons for this post. I will either be upgrading to CS4, or after thinking about it last night, moving to Avid Media Composer. I used Liquid Edition back when it was still Pinnacle and liked the stability, but it lacked some of the punch and power Premier Pro has.
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Jon,
From what I can gather, that’s pretty much the issue, and I’m 90% done re-encoding the video now. I could probably play around with the existing size & find a “sweet spot” layer break, but at this point I think you’re spot on with the idea of having a bit more buffer room. I used the bitrate calculator & adjusted my encode settings (ended up being 6.5) so that I will be getting a bit more room.
Thanks for the reply.
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I just got an email back from the replication company and it’s not looking good. Do you think I need to change the transcode settings in Encore from automatic to something else to make the project smaller?
” Right now your DDP for Layer 0 is stating that there is a total of 2215472 (sectors) * 2048 (bytes per sector) which gives us a total of 4537286656 total bytes of user data.
According to the DVD specification the total number of bytes you can have for both layer 0 and 1 is 2084960 * 2048 which gives us a total of 4269998080 bytes.
This leaves us with a surplus of 267288576 bytes of user data.
The DDP data stream length for layer one is 1948944 *2048 = 3991437312 total bytes.
So, the number of bytes available on Layer 1 is 4269998080 – 3991437312 = 278560768 user data bytes left over.
This means if you were able to have authoring select a layer 0 transition point say 270MB earlier then all of his data would fit on both layers.
You can also try playing around with the track pitch and LV for Layer 0 to fit this data, but I’m not recommending that. ”
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Sorry, I guess I should have given a bit of project information. I have 12 seperate timelines, which are my chapters. There is a main menu and 2 chapter menus. The play all button on the main menu points to a playlist that includes all the timelines(chapters) in order.
The 2 chapter menus have 6 links each, pointing to their respective timeline. These menus use poster frames as the animation for each of the buttons. I just finished removing and rebuilding all of the menus and am still having the same error.
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Thanks for the info John. It’s nice to know (but not nice to hear) that others have had similar issues with long projects. I ended up using GEAR, IFOedit & IMGburn to manually set the layer break & burn my NTSC project & have sent it off to the replication company. Now if I could just get the PAL version to export from Encore I’d be all set!
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Sorry, I meant that they CAN’T create the master.
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Jon,
I exported the video last night and the quality (at least on my monitor) looks alot better. But when I try and burn it to DVD through Encore it’s too large. Is there a way to tell Encore to auto adjust it to fit? Or can I manually adjust the settings?
When it’s trying to burn the DVD, it says it’s 5.06GB.
Thanks again!
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Thanks for the reply Jon. I’m kicking off the export in just a bit and will see how it turns out. To this point I’ve been trying to export directly to Encore rather than exporting with Encoder and importing after.
I’ll let you know how it looks! Thanks again!
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I have a similar question. My footage was shot with a Sony A1 in HDV and I imported it as such, but my goal is to created SD DVD’s after editing. When I first created the PP project, should I have chosen NTSC Widscreen? I chose the HDV option and now when I try to send it to Encore it’s huge and won’t take the file (says it’s too big for DVD). When I export it to Encore in a setting that makes it small enough to fit it’s fairly blurry and pixelated on DVD.