[Juan Torres]

I have always used DVD-lab PRO for authoring. I recently tried Encore for it’s great Photoshop integration and the export as DVD/Blu-ray/Flash feature; you know, trying it myself to see if it really is as good as some people say, or as bad as others claim.

Besides, I don’t know if it’s a DVD-lab issue, but my subtitles ALWAYS show earlier, no matter which timecode option I choose (and yes, I’m sure that they are correctly in sync with the video before authoring) Also, when I import subs they don’t preserve italics, very annoying. I’m doing the same project in Encore to see if subs are properly synced this time.

Now that I think about it… maybe subs have always showed earlier because till now (changing N/M value in CCE from 5 to 4, thus, GOP length of 12 frames instead of 15) my files never had the correct GOP length and timecode was all messed up. I will do some testing later.

[Juan Torres]

Hello Erich,

What do you consider a professional DVD tool? I was about to start using Encore as my main DVD author, maybe I should skip it and check out whatever you recommend.

[Juan Torres]

Just to let you all know, here’s the solution:

GOP length… it was 15 frames, which with pulldown applied it would result in at least 19 frames (NTSC DVDs should be 18 frames max)
So, frame rate was related to the problem, it just wasn’t THE problem.

Anyway, in CCE-SP2’s MPEG Video Settings (Advanced settings) I just changed the N/M value from 5 to 4. Now output’s GOP length is 12 frames 😉

Honestly, if Adobe Encore is targeted at professional video producers it should at least throw a warning message saying “GOP length is too high” or similar…