Jon Geddes
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DVD Players do not read h264. Only Blu-ray players do. You can go ahead and export your mpeg2 file from Premiere to make things go faster in encore. Use the Adobe Media Encoder, and select MPEG2 DVD as the output. Make sure to set the aspect ratio correctly (it defaults to 4:3)
Jon Geddes
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Variable 2-Pass encoding will give you the best results. For a 55 min. video, you could easily do a target bitrate of 7 Mbps, Max bitrate of 8 Mbps, and a minimum of 1.5 Mbps
Jon Geddes
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First of all, do the videos function properly while doing a Preview in Encore?
If no, double check all your end actions for the timelines.
If yes, make sure you are burning at a slow enough speed. Usually burners support extremely fast speeds (8x, 12x, etc..) however problems with playback occur if the disc is burned faster than 4x. Also make sure you aren’t burning faster than the discs support. Some require a burn of 2.4x speed.
Jon Geddes
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That is correct. 16:9 and 4:3 use the exact same resolution (720×480), the only difference is the Pixel Aspect Ratio which is set during the mpeg encoding process and in the authoring program.
Jon Geddes
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I just wanted to add to what John said.
He is recommending to resize your HD video to SD by importing your HD video into an SD project and scaling it down, then using the adobe media encoder to make the mpeg dvd file. This is important because the adobe media encoder does a HORRIBLE job of downscaling. If you were to simply use the adobe media encoder from your HD project to make the mpeg dvd file, your encoded mpeg file will look like garbage, much worse than if you had shot the video in SD (almost as if it were shot at 320×240 and scaled up to 720×480). Using the method he mentioned, you will have MUCH better results. Although if you want the best possible downscaling, you would need to use a third party application such as Virtual Dub, which has a variety of resizing algorithms, and one especially that provides extremely good results.
Jon Geddes
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This was not shot against white. Definitely green screen, in fact the girl at 46 seconds is proof that it was green screen (unless someone spent days rotoscoping it). I’ve done many green screen shoots and like Dave said, do your research on Chroma Keying. You need a good camera that does 4:4:4 Chroma Subsampling or 4:2:2 at the minimum (XDCAM, DVCPRO HD). HDV is not good enough, unless your budget is extremely low.
Usually cameras don’t record at 4:4:4 because of how much space it takes up and the bandwidth requirement, so in this situation you would run HD-SDI out of the camera and capture it live onto a computer on location using a 4:4:4 codec… and some serious bandwidth for the hard drives (multiple drives running in raid 0). Like Dave said, do your research.
Jon Geddes
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If me previous post didn’t help because it didn’t apply to you, maybe you could give more details on the error you are getting?
Does it pop up with a message, or is the duplication house telling you there is an error with the disc?
Do any errors come up when you perform the ‘Check Project’?
Please describe exactly the error you are getting, and at what point you get it, for example “Immediately after pressing Build”, as this could be very helpful in determining the cause.
Jon Geddes
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I’ve never been able to get a project to build correctly when the timeline exceeds 2 hours. The only solution is to split up your video into 2 separate timelines, having the first one’s end action point to the second one. I’ve experienced this bug in Encore 1 – CS3 (Haven’t tried a 2+ hour project in CS4 yet).
I’m just guessing that you are experiencing the same bug I am referring to.
It doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the layer break, just a bug in encore that prevents proper building of the project when a timeline exceeds approximately 2 hours.
Symptoms of the bug I am referring to:
Project will build fine, no errors, however when played back, either on a burned disc or as a mounted image file, a glitch will occur part way through the first layer, where the video will jump back to the middle of the previous chapter, then part way through the second layer, video will skip forward a chapter. When the skip occurs, the timecode does not change, causing the chapters to get all out of whack. Appears to only happen on projects with timelines exceeding 2 hours. I can repeat it every time on multiple systems with different versions of Encore and different exported files (there are no glitches in the mpeg files)Jon Geddes
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Your main menu needs to be set as first play. In the project panel, right click the main menu and set as first play.
Jon Geddes
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Your Quickbooks shouldn’t be showing money that you haven’t received. You can do it several ways, but whats important is that you are consistent with the way you choose. The easiest way we’ve found to do it is report just the actual money that came in, regardless of when the actual job is. True, you will have gotten paid for jobs in 2007 that didn’t occur until 2008 (or maybe even 2009), but you will also be doing jobs that you received payment the year before, so it all balances out.
So bottom line, if you collect a deposit in 2008 for a job that occurs in 2009… report that deposit as income for 2008, and the remaining balance will be reported in 2009 when you receive it.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com