[John Rich]

Edward,
What I think Richard wants is be able to animate over a bezier path each letter of this word from a different spot so it comes into the final word. He wants to be able to have the letter track over the bezier curve so he can see where it is going easily.
When he (and I) use the guide layer for a control layer (separate one for each letter which we have put into separate sets), the letter moves with the guide layer, but there is a large distance between the guide layer and the letter as he shows. It has nothing to do with moving the guide layer.

Trying to move the anchor point of the guide layer didn’t seem to change the situation (at least as far as I could see).

The only way I could see to do this would be to use separate invigorators and tracking layers, instead of multiple sets in one invigorator with multiple tracking layers.

Is it possible to track the bezier paths closely using multiple sets and guide layers?

John Rich

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[John Rich]

Sorry, but I guess I misunderstood. You are trying to build a BluRay project using 1920×1080 footage you captured with your AVCHD camera.
“Using Encore I built a DVD with those sequences imported via Dynamic Link.”
I guess you meant you built a BluRay project and not a DVD.

I only have CS3, but I would use AME exporting as HDTV BluRay as you did and then importing as an “asset” into the BluRay project.

If on the other hand, you meant you were going to build a SD DVD from the same footage you used for your BluRay project, then you would have to rescale the full HD footage down to SD size, before you imorted it into ENcore for the DVD.
John Rich

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[John Rich]

I’m sure you’ve seen these threads and this approach to downscaling as well
https://invertedhorn.axspace.com/hdv2dvd_basic.html.

Quite a while a go I got Cineform and I think it does a good job of downscaling my HDV footage, just using File-export-Movie in Premiere.

John

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[John Rich]

If you don’t mind, I had a couple of questions.
What system Mac vs Windows?
How did you wind up with 1280 x 720 P file?
Is the file .mpeg, .mov ,.avi ?

If you want to find up with a file 720×480 (1.2 PAR), you would have to scale yours down. There are several ways to do that, but one way would be to import your file into a widescreen Premiere SD project, and use the scaling in the Effects to bring the picture size down.
Then export using the Adobe media encoder with a Mpeg DVD preset and make sure you select widescreen.
Then import that into Encore and burn a folder, and burn the final DVD with ImgBurn. Just try a short test part of your file first.
John Rich

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[John Rich]

For what it’s worth, I never could get the chapter’s to work with my bluray projects in Encore CS3, even setting them up in separate playlists for each chapter as you did.
I finally went to separate timelines as you suggested, for each chapter and it worked. I have no idea why or even if this a universal experience.
I was careful of no overrides, etc.
Just as an aside, for some reason, in my projects, the second menu (Scenes, accessed from the scene select button on menu one), always came up with button 2 selected.

John Rich

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[John Rich]

Joe,

Thanks for your patience. I think you finally got through to me and I understand BluRay encoding a lot more than I did before.
Thanks again,
John

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[John Rich]

I guess what I’m having trouble with is the concept of “BluRay Legal”. 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”?

The way I’m thinking, then even though I imported HDV into my Premiere Project to edit, to prevent re-encoding by Encore, I would have to export with AME to a file that’s 1920×1080 (labeled HDTV in the presets) to prevent Encore from having to re-encode. However, in the Mpeg2 Bluray format, there are several presets that generate a 1440×1080 frame (labeled HDV). In my way of thinking, these HDV presets will have to be re-encoded by Encore, and therefore are not BluRay Legal. Do you think I am thinking correctly here?
Again, I appologize for not being clear, and appreciate your thoughts.
John

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[John Rich]

Sorry to appear denser than I already have about this, but I’ll try to summarize:

There’s a group of resolution and frame rate combination for both MPEG2 and H.264 , each of which is a preset in Adobe Media Encoder under either the Mpeg2 BluRay or the H.264 Bluray.

The presets that are labeled HDTV are the ones that are “BLURAY Legal”.
1080i at 25 I assume is PAL, 1080i at 29.97 is NTSC, 1080p at 24 is PAL and 1080p at 23.976 is NTSC.

Therefore, if I take HDV footage that’s NTSC and edit it in Premiere, I should use the 1080i at 29.97 preset to output it from HDV 1440×1080 to HD at 1920×1080 at same frame rate.

However, I could try exporting at 1080p although it would wind up with a slower frame rate.

Anyway, then when I imort the HDTV footage I rendered into Encore, Encore will have the same list of “BluRay Legal” presets, and if the footage I imported matches one of these, then it won’t reincode it.

However, if Encore gets some HDV NTSC footage, it will just encode it to 1080i at 29.97.
IF it gets some 1449x1080p at 23.976, it will encode to 1080p at 23.976.

I would certainly your taking the time to read over this and correct any mistakes. My main problem was determing, after scanning the web, what is BluRay LEgal.
Thanks,
John Rich

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[John Rich]

Sorry,
The original framerate was 29.97. For some reason, I thought the final frame rate of a BluRay MPEG was 24 fps (I can’t find where I read that, so I probably mixed that idea up somewhere). Therefore, I thought that Encore reincoded footage out of Premiere (1440×1080 at 29.97) to a larger size (1920×1080) at a slower frame rate 24.

So what really happens is that the only thing that happens when Encore encodes the HDV footage in the BluRay preset, is to make it larger, but the frame rate stays the same?
Thanks,
John

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[John Rich]

Joe,
Thanks for your answer. In the project window, I exposed the entire top bar, name, etc and there was the Blu ray transcode status, etc (previously hidden as the project window wasn’t pulled far enough to the right) as well as the DVD trancode status just as you said.

Both “transcodes” are also in the properties panel of the “asset”.

I hate to have you spoonfeed me this stuff, but do you know of a link that will show me about the encoding presets of the media encoder in both Premiere, and Encore?
For some reason, I exported out of Premiere, a 1440×1080 .avi (cineform) as a BluRay Mpeg, but used the preset HDTV 1080i 29.97. Should I have used the HDTV 10080i 24 to prevent the need to retranscode in Encore if I was going to make a BluRay disk?

Thanks in advanace.
John Rich

JOHNR