Jon Geddes
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Make sure you are creating your menus in the same resolution that they will be authored in. If you are creating an HD menu for an SD DVD, it will look horrible as Adobe uses very poor algorithms for downscaling.
Jon Geddes
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I forgot to mention, this issue occurs in Encore CS3, CS4, and CS5.
Jon Geddes
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This is a known problem with Encore authoring of Blu-ray projects. This does not occur on DVD projects. Whats happening is that Encore automatically creates a separate transition/asset for the part of the menu before the loop point, with an end action set to the menu after then loop point, causing the freeze you mentioned. This is either a limitation of the Blu-ray spec (I doubt it) that prevents the beginning of a menu to appear before the button highlights (like DVD menus), or a limitation of Adobe’s knowledge of how to code it properly.
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There is actually a multi-step process to get studio quality downscaling and encoding using completely free utilities (I am assuming your source footage is HD).
Please read my blog post here, as it goes into great detail.
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What type of players are you using?
The Panasonic are best for burned media, and Sony PS3 also works well.
What brand media are you using? Verbatim and Sony are the best.
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The preview in Encore will actually show black between menus and transitions, however on the actual burned disc, you should not see black between them.
Just about all dvd and bluray players will freeze the last frame of the previous menu or transition until it loads the next one, making the transition seamless. Very rarely you will find a player that will show black between the transitions and menus. Sometimes this is even caused by burning too fast, which creates more errors on the disc, making it harder for the player to read it, and thus making it take longer to read the disc. If the duration of time is too long for it to read the disc between menus or transitions, it may display black.
In almost all cases, you will not see black between menus.
Jon Geddes
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In theory, you are suppose to be able to start with the Blu-ray project, then after you build it, simply change the output to DVD in the build settings, and proceed to build a DVD.
Unfortunately this method of creating a DVD produces horrible quality results with the downscaling. Not only will the quality of your main video be garbage, but so will the button highlights and motion backgrounds.
I think you will be much more pleased with the results if you create two separate Encore projects, using separate HD and SD assets which have been prepared outside of Encore, using high quality downscalers.
Jon Geddes
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The PS3 and Panasonic Blu-ray players are known for having good playback support of BD-R’s. Unfortunately Sony players (not PS3) and some other brands do not have great support.
You may want to try another brand of discs, such as Sony or Verbatim, but if that doesn’t work, you might just have to use a different player.
Jon Geddes
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You might want to use a bitrate caluclator:
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
Jon Geddes
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Apply the CC Light Sweep effect to the layer, then keyframe the center… I forgot to mention we also used that technique in the video I posted.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com