Jon Geddes
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There is likely issues with the encoded audio. Can you export a new audio file (dolby digital ac3) straight from Premiere (assuming you edit with Premiere), then replace the audio in Encore with the newly encoded file? This should resolve the issue.
Jon Geddes
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Once it goes on DVD, it will be 720×576 with anamorphic widescreen. Encore does a very poor job of scaling menus, so you will want to use Photoshop to scale to that size.
1) Create a 720×576 PAL Widescreen document in Photoshop using the presets.
2) Open your menu and drag all the layers into the new 720×576 document.
3) Position into place and save as a new psd. All layers and button groups should have appropriate Encore prefixes.
4) Import the new psd as a menu into Encore.
This should look much better.
Jon Geddes
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Button Highlights are 2-bit, which means they are on or off (no gradients or anti-aliasing). If you have semi-transparent pixels for the highlight, you are going to have issues. In Encore, you can make the entire highlight different transparencies, but that is after it has been defined in Photoshop. In Photoshop, make sure all pixels of the highlight are 100% opaque.
Jon Geddes
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This question gets asked all the time. It is not possible to do with the DVD format. The only way to somewhat achieve what you want is to have a separate menu for each button, with auto-activate enabled so that when someone presses the arrow to navigate to the next button, it takes them to a different menu that appears to be the same, except that the text you wanted to update has changed. The problem is that this setup does not work when played on a computer (the mouse will not auto-activate a button), and the audio of the menu will reset each time you move to a different button. The issues outweigh the benefits, and it should not be attempted.
Jon Geddes
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The m2ts is just the container file. Your m2v file info is contained within that m2ts without modification. It also includes some header info for the stream, which is why you will notice the m2ts file is larger than your original m2v and audio file combined. This is normal.
Had you imported an h.264 file, you will notice is also places it into an m2ts stream without re-transcoding.
Jon Geddes
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It seems your media streamer is not respecting the DVD programming on the disc, and is instead just playing through the vob file.
Jon Geddes
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If that’s not working for whatever reason, you can always export each chapter as it’s own video, then import each one as a timeline. You can then link each chapter to it’s corresponding timeline, then create a regular “Playlist” (not a Chapter Playlist) for the Play button on the main menu, which plays through all the timelines. This method unfortunately prevents you from using the chapter previous button to go back to the previous timeline/chapter.
The chapter playlist method should work though. So your end action for each chapter playlist is to return to the last menu? How about instead of returning to the last menu, you actually specify the menu? See if that makes any difference.
Jon Geddes
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Please send me an email and I’d be happy to take a quick look at it. You can find my email in the contact section of our website.
Jon Geddes
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So what you want to do is have a single timeline for all the scenes, with chapter markers separating each one.
Your “Play” button will be linked to Chapter 1 of the main timeline.
You then need to create a chapter playlist for EACH chapter, that contains only that chapter. The end action of the chapter playlist will link back to the scene menu, and you can even have it select that button or the next in the list.
You then simply link each scene button to it’s corresponding chapter playlist.
If there is a problem with your button highlights, make sure you resolve that as it will most definitely cause problems. It could be a problem with your button routing or button group/layer prefixes in Photoshop.
Jon Geddes
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Is there a specific reason you are using a Chapter Playlist? Unless you need the disc to return to the main menu after each chapter or want it to play the different chapters in a unique order instead of straight through, then you should not be using a chapter playlist. Simply link the scene buttons to the chapters of the timeline.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com