Jon Geddes
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A few things…
1) For best quality, you will want to create the menus in the same resolution that they will be authored in. So if you are making a standard widescreen DVD, you should be using that preset in After Effects and Photoshop (720×480 widescreen pixel aspect ratio).
2) Your transition does not need to be the same resolution as the main video, because if you are creating a standard DVD, Encore is going to downscale it anyways (and Encore uses a very poor quality algorithm for downscaling, AE is much better).
3) Button Highlights are 2-bit graphics only. You cannot have anti-aliasing or pixels that are semi-transparent. You will have to learn to use shapes that still look good even with this limitation.
4) I cannot stress enough that you need to create your menus in the 720×480 widescreen format and not let Encore downscale a 1920×1080 menu. Encore will cause the sub picture highlights to look like absolute garbage. You can take your menu and downscale it in Photoshop for much better results.
5) All these suggestions are assuming you are creating a standard definition DVD and not a Blu-ray disc. If you were creating a Blu-ray disc, all my suggestions would have been different.
Jon Geddes
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You can also attach an HSF+ Mac formatted drive to a PC using the Mac Drive application:
https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Jon Geddes
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What codec does it say the file is encoded as?
With Quicktime installed, you do not need the separate decoder installed as that was for older versions of quicktime.
The Pro Res codec should have no problem being played back on the PC, as we use these files on a daily basis with our PC.
Make sure the codec is Pro Res and not XDCAM or something else. It must be Pro Res, Pro Res LT, or some other Pro Res type.
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I’ve experienced many glitches with the dynamic link feature. When it works, it is nice, but often times it does not. If you encounter a glitch like this, you will need to transcode before bringing into Encore.
Jon Geddes
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You cannot select 720p @ 29.97 because that is not a format supported by the Blu-ray spec. In fact, 30p is not supported at any resolution on Blu-ray, though 1280×720 60p is.
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I recommend re-transcoding to a smaller file size.
It’s not just like placing the files on a data disc, there needs to be space reserved for ISO and MPEG overhead (there are additional files that are generated for the disc, not just the ac3 and m2v)
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I agree with the frame blending, it does not look good, which is why it should be disabled.
However, the animation is smooth when the 29.97 comp is placed in the 25 fps comp. As I said, it appears After Effects can pull inter-frame data from the 29.97 comp. What this means is that it will not render in 29.97, then convert to 25 fps, but instead will render the animation at true 25 fps. Sure, your keyframes won’t line up exactly with a frame in the 25 fps comp, but this shouldn’t make any noticeable changes to it visually.
Give it a try… I doubt you will be disappointed.
Jon Geddes
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Actually what you can do is first create the project in 29.97 fps 1080p, then if you need 25 fps, create a new composition with that framerate, and drag the 29.97 fps comp into it. The new comp can pull interframe data from the 29.97 fps project, and it will be as if it was created in 25 fps. This works perfectly with graphics created in After Effects, though can get a little tricky when working with pre-rendered footage (there may be some frame blending if you enable it).
Jon Geddes
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[Larry Applegate] “John, that’s interesting that Encore creates a chapter point. In DVDAfterEdit you can choose where to create the break (if there isn’t a legal one), but it makes it just a cell, not a chapter point, and thus does not change the navigation.”
That’s what I recall from the last time I encountered this situation, though I will admit it was a while ago (maybe CS2). Lately I’ve been lucky with plenty of chapter points in the layer break region.
It’s possible Adobe has changed things since then.
Jon Geddes
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Hi guys,
What happens is as you fill the disc near it’s full capacity, the range at which it can do the layer break narrows. It will always try and find a chapter point at which it can break the layer, but if you don’t have any in that region, it will be forced to create one, which is why it jumped to a chapter that you did not create. I doubt it created an illegal break.
I don’t feel this is a limitation of Encore, but more of the dvd format. Layer 0 will always have to be greater than Layer 1, so as you fill that disc to capacity, there are only so many places the program can create the break at.
Jon Geddes
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