Matt Dubber
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Instead of using the PikWhip, designate the First Play item in the “properties” tab for the Disc. Instead of setting it to a timeline, set it to “Specify Other”. This will allow you to set the timeline in which to play first as well as let you specify what audio track or subtitle track to activate.
-Matt
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In your transcoding preset, change the Field Order in the video setting from upper to lower (or from lower to upper) and see if that fixes it.
-Matt
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I ususally add a chapter point at the very end of the timeline (or as close as it will let you). That way when someone presses ‘NEXT’ it goes to the end of the timeline and then continues on to what it is supposed to do. Without that chapter point, you are at the mercy of every DVD player because they all respond differently. Sounds like yours just goes on to the next video element on the DVD disc….whatever it may be. Try the chapter point trick, it should solve the problem and users can still skip the segment if they want to instead of disableing the button.
-Matt
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posted also at DMN:
Are you setting the video file as the first play, or the timeline containing the video? Be sure that the first play is actually a timeline and not to a video clip. This may solve the problem.-Matt
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If you have a menu with a button that plays the specific timeline, instead of linking to the timeline you should set your ‘link’ in the ‘properties’ tab to ‘specify other’. Here you can tell it to jump to a timeline and set the subtitle to a specific number…probably 1 if you only have one subtitle track. If you don’t have a menu with a button, you could create a blank timeline with the end jump linking to the appropriate timeline ‘specify other’. (I haven’t tired this blank timeline method before)
-Matt
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YOu can uses a third party program like TMPG MPEG Editor to create one MPEG file out of several. It’s fairly inexpensive and works like a charm. It doesn’t re-encode the whole file so the output quality is exactly the same as the source files. It only re-encodes the few frames where the files join.
-Matt
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The AVI files will get transcoded to MPEG2 files anyway, so it really doesn’t matter how big they are to begin with. The quality of a DVD with 7-8 hours on one single side/single layer disc will be very bad most likely. I have been able to encode 4 hours of material to one dual layer disc with acceptable results. You would get better quality if you split up your material onto a few discs instead of cramming it onto one.
-Matt
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What are you trying to copy the DVD with…a DVD Duplication Tower? Software on a computer? What software?
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This may be a silly question, but can the user turn on the subtitles via the remote? If so, you probably don’t have the subtitles set to be ‘on’ by default in Encore. If this isn’t the case, then it COULD be possible that the language set in Encore for the subtitles doesn’t match what the DVD player is set to…possibly?
-Matt
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I used the ‘export to tape’ option just the other day to insert edit onto a tape….(it was DigiBeta). I selected the ‘insert option’ on the first screen, then entered the timecode number on the second screen. It did a sucessful insert edit at that timecode…not an assemble. I would recommend doing a test first though, just in case it acts differently on a MiniDV.