Jon Geddes
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We’ve used a variety of Bu-ray burners and the Pioneer BDR-206 (latest edition as of now) is the best by far. Great burn quality, very fast, and just a solid built drive all around.
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You must manually configure the button routing. Uncheck “Automatically Route Buttons” in the menu’s properties, then at the bottom of the menu view, click the icon that looks like a plus sign (just to the right of the safe area icon) to view the button routing. You can then click and drag the routing to the buttons you want it to go.
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Please read this article by Adobe’s Todd Kopriva on GPU accelerated scaling in Premiere CS5 (and above).
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/adobe/story/scaling_in_adobe_premiere_pro_cs5/
He explains how you will achieve higher quality scaling by using the Mercury Playback Engine, which uses the Lanczos 2 algorithm.
If you do not have a Mercury Playback Engine supported GPU, your downscaling of HD to SD will only use the bicubic algorithm, which is greatly inferior.
Jon Geddes
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This is exactly what it should do. In fact, I consider it a bug that Encore does not do the same for Blu-ray projects. For Blu-ray projects, it does not create a chapter at the very end, so once you get to the last chapter, nothing happens when you press next.
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I would file it as a bug with Adobe, as I have noticed similar problems when using playlists on Blu-ray projects with multiple menus.
I’m sure if you opened the Blu-ray image in BDedit, you would find incorrectly programmed navigation commands made by Encore.
Jon Geddes
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It sounds like you are trying to make your project overly complex, which might be causing the issues with the Blu-ray authoring.
No need to create a playlist for each video that loops back to itself.
Just set the end action of each timeline to link back to the beginning of that timeline.
You can then create a play-all playlist that contains all of the timelines. The playlist will automatically override the end action of each timeline so that they don’t loop back after finishing a single one. Just set the end action of the playlist to the beginning of the playlist.
Let me know if that works for you.
Jon Geddes
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Encore is not the program to animate elements. It is designed for authoring.
Animating elements should be done in After Effects. You might be able to get away with doing some kind of animating in Premiere, but you have so much more control an capabilities in After Effects.
Jon Geddes
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Chapter Playlists do not work for Blu-ray projects in Encore. This is a limitation of Encore and not the Blu-ray spec. In fact, with a little modifying of the Blu-ray image that Encore generates using a free program called BDedit, you could probably make it work the way you want. This would require knowing a good deal about spec level Blu-ray authoring though.
Regular playlists do work for Blu-ray projects, though as you discovered, they are not seamless. Again, this is a limitation of Encore and not the BD spec. You could make your own playlist using BDedit, and have them seamlessly connected using the connection condition value of 5.
In my opinion Adobe has really lost touch with the community in regards to authoring, and haven’t fixed many of the Encore problems. What’s sad is that Encore is probably the best non-professional authoring application available. Maybe the lack of competition is making them lazy? Who knows.
Jon Geddes
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Do you have access to the computer that the project was originally created on? If so, you might be able to copy the preset over to your current system if you can locate it. If you simply have reformatted your system since you last worked on that project, I’m not quite sure how to resolve it. This issue is one of the reasons that I stopped creating custom transcoding presets in Encore. I now transcode all my videos before bringing them into Encore, and only use the existing presets for the transcoding of the motion menus.
Jon Geddes
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Motion menus are always encoded to mpeg2 in Encore, even if the project settings are H264.
However, you can mix h264, mpeg2, SD and HD videos all on a single Blu-ray disc.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com