[Jonas Bendsen]

ps I’m not saying there’s no way to do it. I’d love to know the method (or work around) for authoring 24p (23.976) DVD’s with the Adobe Suite if anybody knows how to make it happen.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

Just saying… I encoded to DVD MPEG-2 23.976 using Adobe’s Media Encoder. When I pulled it into Encore, it wouldn’t build, I’m assuming because of the framerate.

In Encore, the setting for fps in the Project Settings Window is 29.97 and there is no way to change it (it’s grayed out, and Adobe’s sight shows that a DVD can only be written at 29.97).

So for future readers using Encore CS4 to author DVD’s… 23.976 seems to be the wrong way to go.

I could be wrong, but this is what I learned from my experience.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

I’m pretty sure you’re wrong (this after spending hours encoding to 23.976 and compiling a DVD, setting poster frames, etc., only to find that the project won’t build, because Encore is telling me there are “gaps” in the timeline).

Here is a link from the Adobe site:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/EncoreDVD/4.0/WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe807401038582db29-7fbaa.html

The chart shows that Blu-Ray will function at 23.976, but an NTSC DVD will ONLY work with 29.97.

3am. Starting over exporting everything to a 29.97 file.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

Good to hear. I was assuming (and hoping) this was the answer, but I didn’t want to be encoding all our DVD’s as 24p (23.976), only to have DVD players not playing them correctly on NTSC TV’s needing 29.97 for whatever reason.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

This is an ancient thread, but it came up when I was searching for an answer to my output questions.

I’m editing RED footage. It’s 23.976. I assumed since DVD’s are for NTSC televisions, I should be exporting my media to 29.97, but now I’m wondering.

Should I be using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4’s MPEG-2 DVD 23.976p setting (vs. the “regular” setting which is 29.97) to author DVD’s?

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[Jonas Bendsen]

I think I may have asked this questions after too many nights of no sleep. Not sure why I couldn’t figure out to just render the freakin’ sequence with Media Encoder (which is what I ended up doing).

Thanks for taking the time to respond to such a stupid question. 🙂

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[Jonas Bendsen]

I am currently experiencing the exact same problem. All of our audio plays correctly in the Premiere Pro CS4.1 timeline, but when the sequence is exported, only the first half of the sound is present.

This occurs using any format, even exporting audio only. All formats generate only the first half of the project’s audio. The full clip is generated, but the last half of the audio clip is silence.

There are no format differences from the first half to the last half of the project.

Is the a length issue? The current project is 62 minutes long.

The only current work around is to export the first half, and then export the second half, and then create two timelines for the DVD (which is not a good solution, because you can’t ff/rw over the break point, and there is also a stutter-pop when the DVD goes from the first half to the second).

Anyone with any knowledge of a solution, please let us know!

Thanks.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

When I use the tilt feature of basic 3D, the bottom part of the image becomes “pinched” in and you can see the edge of the frame (and the angle it creates on both sides).

I would need to blow up the image to compensate. Perhaps this is what I’m doing with the corner pin anyway (enlarging the image to compensate for the narrower bottom of the distorted image)?

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[Jonas Bendsen]

There’s an effect in Premiere Pro called “dynamics” that might do the trick. You would need to export each of your 10 scenes’ audio into one long clip (instead of a bunch of little ones), so you could apply the effect (you will need to figure out how best to configure the settings), then export the scene as your HD wmv.

By the way, you might consider exporting each of the 10 scenes using the MPEG2-DVD setting instead of wmv. This is what Encore is going to transcode it to anyway. If you use that setting, you won’t be transcoding the file twice (once in Premiere to wmv, and then again in Encore to MPEG).

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[Jonas Bendsen]

Ctrl+K is definitely the cut shortcut key combo. I use it all the time (rarely use the razor blade tool, because you have to zoom in so far to make a precise cut).

Make sure your track is highlighted (click on the track’s name box), and you are working in the window with your time line/sequence or Premiere won’t know what you’re trying to cut.

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