Jon Geddes
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The video is likely not square pixels, and Encore is not detecting the pixel aspect ratio correctly. If you right click on the clip in the project panel, then go to interpret footage, do you have the option of setting it to the correct pixel aspect ratio?
Jon Geddes
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If you created a custom transcode preset and used it in a particular project, then reinstalled the program or transfered the project to a different system, that preset will not be found and it will have issues loading.
Jon Geddes
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I have to jump in here…
Encore can author multiple codecs, framerates, and resolutions all on the same Blu-ray disc without problems. This all within spec and works great.
However, I would take Danny’s advise on the 24p/60i or 25p/50i issue. There shouldn’t be a reason to mix NTSC and PAL content on a single disc.
In Encore, the project settings only determine the default transcode settings. You can manually set the transcode settings of any individual asset, or you can import a pre-encoded asset (such as an SD MPEG2 DVD file) and it will not re-transcode for Blu-ray.
I have done this before many times, and can confirm that it works as I stated.
Jon Geddes
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You can set a menu transition in the transition tab of a button’s properties. So for a button, you would set the target, and then you would set the transition to that target.
There are no pre-made transitions available in Encore. You must create your own, import as an asset, then assign it as the transition for a button. Since you can only set a single file as a menu transition, your file must contain both audio and video (assuming you want audio for your transition).
Jon Geddes
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We’ve just released a video tutorial that shows you exactly how to fix the subtitles with Blu-ray projects authored in Adobe Encore.
https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2011/03/new-tutorial-bluray-subtitle-fix/
Jon Geddes
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Thanks Danny.
I am well aware of EasyBD, and unfortunately it is completely useless to me without the IGEditor, which is a separate $500 program.
On top of this, IGEditor is far less intuitive than Encore when it comes to menu creation, and requires coding and keeping track of GPR’s, Movie Objects, Playlists, etc. across the two different programs.
I think the ideal piece of software would be a program just like Encore, with access to the navigation commands that will be programmed to the disc, and the ability to rearrange the streams. I understand Encore is an abstraction layer program, and it auto-generates all the code behind the scenes… but if it only gave advanced users the ability to modify those commands (to fix bugs, create more complex navigation, etc.), it would be perfect.
Jon Geddes
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Danny is correct, this is a bug with CS5 that Adobe has refused to release the fix for. They have it, and have distributed it to some of their beta testers, but will not release it to the public.
Another way to fix it is to modify the Blu-ray navigation commands using BDEdit after you have exported your Blu-ray project as a folder from Encore. I would like to thank Larry Applegate for providing this fix.
Open the BDMV folder in BDEdit, and do the following:
1) First, locate all your Movie Objects for each of your videos on the disc. You can browse your streams folder and find the stream of your main videos, then locate the Playlist in BDEdit that plays those streams. Then you can locate the Movie Objects that reference those Playlists. It sounds complicated, but once you find the first one, you will easily find the others. Each Movie Object that plays one of your main movies has 19 navigation commands or so. The others will have far fewer.
2) Make the following modifications to each of the Movie Objects that play your main videos:
Change Line 3 from “GoTo Line 6” to “Goto Line 8”
Change Line 7 from “Move GPR10, 0” to “Move GPR10, 62”
Delete Line 6 “Move GPR9, 0”
Once you have made those modifications to a Movie Object, you must hit save (lower left of BDEdit) before proceeding to the next Movie Object.
If you have a Pop-up menu that changes the subtitles… you will not be able to correct the issue as the pop-up menus are muxed into the videos and cannot be remuxed with this software. To avoid this, you can just have a pop-up menu that links to a regular menu where the subtitles are changed. Another option is to call Adobe and demand they provide you the fixed Encore executable… but I don’t think you will have much luck with that one.
I am working on a tutorial that should be ready by early next week.
Once your modifications are made, you can create an image using ImgBurn.
P.S. – These are PC programs. Larry Applegate has software for the Mac that can make these modifications as well.
Jon Geddes
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Despite Encore having many bugs and shortcomings, it is in my opinion the best authoring application for consumer use. For professional use (studio releases), only a much more expensive spec level authoring application should be used, such as Scenarist or even DoStudio.
For DVD’s (not Blu-ray), sometimes scripting is required, which Encore cannot do, however DVD Studio Pro can. For most projects, scripting is not required and Encore is the better choice.
If you are authoring non-commercial Blu-ray discs, Encore is the only real option.
Jon Geddes
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You probably created a “Blank” menu for this image? If so, your Blank menu is likely 720×480, causing the problem you are experiencing.
You should save your 1920×1080 image as a PSD file, then import as a menu instead of an asset. You can also create the button highlights in the PSD as well before or after importing. The Encore help file explains how to do this.
Jon Geddes
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More than likely this has nothing to do with the software. These kind of problems are almost always the result of burning the disc too fast, using poor quality media, or using a poor quality burner.
Only Verbatim or JVC/Taiyo Yuden media should be used.
Sometimes you can tell if your burner is weak by looking at the surface of the burned media. A weak burner will produce uneven coloration across the burned area. For example, the inner area might look slightly darker than the outer area. We had a Plextor drive that exhibited this problem, and replaced it with a much better Pioneer drive.
Never burn at the maximum speed of your burner/media. If the drive and disc support up to 8x, then you shouldn’t go above 4x or 6x. There is an exception though… some Verbatim Dual Layer media supports 2.4x speed, which should be burned at 2.4x.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com