Jon Geddes
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Encore CS4 had issues with the rendering of a menu finishing prematurely and not giving any indication a problem had occurred. It only rendered 1 second of menu, which is why it keeps looping 1 second. You can try making a video of the menu which is the same duration as the audio file. Use that instead of the still image for the background. This could resolve the problem.
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I just realized why your MRQ vs noMRQ encoding times were likely different when GPU acceleration was on…
Not all effects are GPU accelerated. Some must use the CPU, and for those scenes, you want MRQ turned on. Our test did not have any effects applied that required the CPU, which is why our GPU accelerated MRQ vs noMRQ encoding times with a direct export were the same.
Jon Geddes
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That is an excellent analysis Ivan, complete with charts and all!
All but one of our source files were going through some type of conversion in the master sequence (scaling, 24p to 60i, etc). When doing a straight export with the settings matching the source sequence and footage, it is understandable to have different results.
A direct export with GPU acceleration always has MRQ on, regardless if you enable it or not. It is interesting that you had slightly different render times when enabling/disabling it.
Compare the quality of the fastest export (GPU-DE-noMRQ) to the slowest export (CPU-ME-MRQ) in your sequence that had scaling/effects, and there should be a better quality image in the fastest export. There was in our test sequence.
Jon Geddes
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That is correct. When GPU is enabled, maximum render quality is on by default, however…
This means that when GPU Acceleration is enabled, there should be no difference in render time whether Direct Export or Queued, and the quality should be the same.
With MRQ turned off (and GPU acceleration on), there is a quality difference between the Direct Export and Queued Export, and it took longer to encode when Queued.
With MRQ turned on, it takes the same amount of time to encode via a direct export, but takes much longer to encode when queued.
If any of this is confusing, just make sure you always do a direct export and use GPU acceleration. MRQ can be disabled. Frame Blending should always be turned off.
Jon Geddes
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Hi Adam,
Your audio and video are linked together, and by default the menu background of a Zip Kit is 30 seconds long. You can either trim the song down to 30 seconds, or locate the menu background asset and loop it in Premiere to be the length you need, then export a the looped background as a new menu background asset.
The animated menu background is separate from the text and other foreground elements of the menu PSD. When you bring that background video asset into Premiere, it will not have any of the text and foreground elements. You can export the looped background as a new asset (you can use quicktime animation codec for lossless quality), and keep using it on future projects.
Regarding the video in the chapter box, you should know that the chapter box must link to that actual video. When you click on that button, it will play the 52 second video. Hopefully that is your intention.
Jon Geddes
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H.264 is a superior codec, and will provide better quality at an equal bitrate to mpeg2. You can use your method, but for best quality, I recommend h.264.
Jon Geddes
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That’s correct. You can save that large file as your HD master or get rid of it after transcoding.
Jon Geddes
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You are correct. Start with a 1920×1080 document, and use the “HDTV 1080p/29.97” preset. 1920×1080 is a square pixel size, so you do not have to worry about pixel aspect ratio correction when designing it in HD.
Once the menu is finalized, then yes, you follow the instructions I previously gave.
The only reason for using the preset is that it places guides in the document for action and text safe areas. Make sure to stay within those guides.
Whenever sizing a rasterized element (including pictures), make sure you convert it to a smart object first, as this will allow easy scaling up and down without degrading image quality.
Jon Geddes
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Is this for a DVD or a Blu-ray? 2hrs is a lot of video for a single layer DVD. It will need to encode at roughly 4.5 mbps to fit. If you are editing in Final Cut and delivering on DVD, you can just use compressor to make the mpeg2 DVD file, 4.5 mbps 2 pass VBR.
If this is for a Blu-ray, you can export as ProRes 422, then encode the video in the Adobe Media Encoder for h.264 Blu-ray before bringing it into Encore. In Encore, just import the encoded mpeg2 DVD or H.264 Blu-ray video and ac3 audio (320 kbps).
Jon Geddes
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