[Matt Stoddart]

Ditto as Stan as said, I animate all my chapter points on every retail DVDs I do(4-5 a month)
1) Link Chapter point to appropriate point on your time line
2) Check the “animate menu” box and adjust desired duration.
3) Render motion menus (if you want to preview)

Hope this solves your problem.
Encore has it bugs but that hasn’t been one of them in Encore.

[Matt Stoddart]

Thanks Danny for that, it’s two steps forward and 1 step sideways,
the only Mac I work on is running 10.8, and everything else is PC, I might have to buy an old G4 to run mydvdedit, it looks very interesting.
The PC software wasn’t Ifoedit? was it, if you do remember please drop me a line.
It was nice to know that I didn’t miss any little trick in Encore and it has to be done using a different programme.
Once the DVD info is edited I can always make a DDP image using Gear Pro.

Thanks
Matt

[Matt Stoddart]

Ah, I see.. you do need both.

Thanks
Matt

[Matt Stoddart]

Hi Danny,

Adobe Encore CS6 on PC and Mac.
This is at the building stage before creating the DDP images for the replicators.

Thanks
Matt

[Matt Stoddart]

What you should get from the subtitlers are two lots of files;
1) SRT – which you can convert into the text file needed for ENCORE.
2) A Premiere edl file with the accompanying tifs of the subtitles

If you tell the subtitler you are editing in Adobe Premiere and tell them what frame size and aspect ratio you are working in they will supply the rest.
The tiff are normally supplied as 4 colour tiffs
E2 [Outer Edge]…….Color 1
E1 [Inner Edge]…….Color 2
PA [Face] …………Color 3
BG [Background]…….Color 4

The EDL should link up with all the tifs files , once they are on the timeline just drop the appropriate key effect on the subtitles.

You can create a Premiere EDL and tifs from a SRT file, but this is normally a function of the more expensive subtitling programmes, Lemony is one of them.

Do you need the subtitles on the Premiere time line for cutting purposes or just as a reference?

[Matt Stoddart]

Echoing what Daniel said about asking for an SRT file.
If you are PC then a great little (free) Subtitling tool, Subtitle Edit3.3.2 ( https://www.nikse.dk/ ) which has the text preset for Encore and loads of other functions.
You can also ask the company to supply you with a Premiere edl with the corresponding bitmaps which you can import into Premiere if required.

Thanks
Matt Stoddart

[Matt Stoddart]

Hi Bob,

The Encore project is set by what you select in the “NEW PROJECT” menu when you create a new project, it will ask you then what standard you want your project to be created in.
The settings PAL / NTSC in the preference menu are for display purposes only.

[Matt Stoddart]

As far as I know you can not script an action within Encore CS6 to pause and display and hold the last frame of each piece. To achieve this behaviour you could create a series of menus created from the last frame of each sequence and have a visable (or not) “NEXT” button.

[Matt Stoddart]

You still have to crop the top/bottom of a 1920×1080 frame to get a 720×576 (1.46)frame without any pillarboxing, 15 top and bottom in the crop function on the source/encode window seems to do the trick.

[Matt Stoddart]

Thanks Kris,

I do let AME do all the heavy lifting, I just use Premiere to scale it down and do any 24 to 25fps adjustments I need to before sending it to the queue in AME.

Cheers
Matt