Jon Geddes
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I’d say a likely candidate for the freezing is the brand of media used, and the speed at which it was burned. This could have easily caused the freezing problems you experienced, and would also explain the freezing on the standard player and not the PC (PC drives usually have better error correction and fault tolerance).
Use a good brand of media like Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden (now JVC). Do not burn faster than 6x (8x is pushing it). Despite the discs and drives supporting higher speeds, doing so greatly increasing the chances of errors being burned to the disc.
Jon Geddes
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You could make a separate outro clip, and set it as the end action for the menu, but then you would have a small pause at the end of the main menu before it starts to fade out.
The outro sequence would just be the part of the menu that fades out, and could be applied as the background to a blank menu with no buttons. Doing it as a background to a menu instead of it’s own timeline will cause it to be burned to the same part of the disc as the menu, reducing seek time and the pause that will occur.
It might just be best to not have any fade out, and have just the intro with the main menu, which then loops back to the loop point. This is how almost all commercial dvd’s are setup.
Jon Geddes
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You must create a button if you want the dvd to go to the video when a button is pressed.
You can create an invisible button that fills the entire screen:
1)Open the blank menu in Photoshop
2)Create a layer group with a (+) prefix
3)Create a layer in the group with a (=1) prefix
4)Fill the entire layer with any color
5)Set the opacity of the layer to 1%
6)Create a new layer beneath the (=1) layer
7)Merge the two layers
8)Save and return to EncoreYou can then set the button to link to the video, and the motion menu can loop continuously. You will not see any visible button or button highlight.
Jon Geddes
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If you are making a DVD and not a Blu-ray, then you need to create an MPEG2 DVD file out of Media Encoder, not an mpeg4.
Even though it shouldn’t give an error and just re-encode your mpeg4 file as an mpeg2, you will just be losing quality and asking for trouble with Encore. Give it a file that it doesn’t need to change (mpeg2 dvd), and you should be good to go.
Jon Geddes
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What part of the project needs to be encoded if the main video has been pre-transcoded in Premiere? Are you using motion menus?
Jon Geddes
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Have you installed the pxhelp driver from Roxio, and ran Encore as an administrator?
This link should provide some helpful tips:
CS4 and Windows 7: DAV’s TechTable
Jon Geddes
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Why not just export to MPEG2 DVD from Premiere? That way you can import a file into Encore that doesn’t need any encoding. Just make sure your bitrate is set appropriately so the video fits on a disc. You can use a bitrate calculator to check that.
Jon Geddes
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If you have a scene selection page with multiple chapter buttons and animated buttons, it will take a while to render. The duration of the render will depend on your processing speed, available ram, and probably most important, your hard drive speed. You might consider having your project and adobe cache on 3 Drives in a RAID 0 configuration, as hard drive speed is a common bottleneck with Adobe applications these days now that computers are so fast.
If you have an Intel i7 920 or higher, with at least 12GB of ram and possibly an overclocked processor, your hard drive speed is likely the limiting factor. Don’t even think about using an external drive for projects unless it is a RAID’ed unit (G-RAID) connected via SATA or USB3.
Jon Geddes
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Yes, Adobe hides a single line in the help files that says it doesn’t work… however there is no indication in Encore that chapter playlists do not work with Blu-ray.
ps. I appreciate your compliments of our Pro Motion Menu Kits. If you have any questions, please send me an email. Contact info can be found on our website. Thank you.
Jon Geddes
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Did you check your m2v file to make sure that it does not cut off prematurely?
Jon Geddes
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