[Michael Buie]

Glad you could take some advice from our suggestions!

I think Audition is better, and the 3rd Party apps Simon suggested even better still. But, we make what we have work until we can acquire better! 🙂

[Michael Buie]

I’ve always found a certain amount of noise reduction results in what I call a “flanging” sound effect. (Forgive me, I am a guitarist. 🙂 )

Using Adobe Audition, you can minimize this to an extend by copying a noise print, then using that as a baseline for the Noise Reduction effect.

The Noise Reduction effect lets you set level of reduction and another threshold effect (I can’t say precisely the name right now because I am not in front of my Editing PC) … and you can even use a line with multiple click points to pull up or down in ares along the frequency of the wave form where the noise is more problematic or to reduce the “flanging” effect.

You can also switch to hear the noise only, to detect how much of the DESIRED audio material you are removing.

I think this inadvertent removal of DESIRED audio is what creates the flanging, hollow sound I try to avoid.

There are also some noise presets (for instance, to remove hiss or to remove low frequency hum) that may be helpful.

I hope my post helps!

[Michael Buie]

I solved this issue for me by changing the Target Bit rate to higher values.

I’m speculating as to why that worked for me: With lower bit rates, I believe when it detects black, the bit rate is variably lowered to compress better, resulting in poor text. Also, at lower Target Bit Rates, the picture and text during actual footage was lesser quality, also.

What Target Bit rate to try: If I am authoring an SD DVD, I adjust the Target Bit rate (after changing Audio from PCM to Dolby, so final file size for “mpeg-2 DVD” is more accurate) to some just over 4 GB. This ensures I can fit my content on the DVD along with resources like Menu Graphics and Menu Music Track.

This becomes problematic when you start to approach 2 hours of movie time. I could not set the Target Bit Rate over the threshold to fit on a SD DVD to avoid the fuzzy text issue. (I think that may have been between 4 and 5 mb/s and better.)

I’ve had people tell me an SD Movie of mine shown on about a 42″ to 50″ TV screen looked almost HD when I maximized the Target Bit Rate to fill as much of the DVD as possible. (I think max for an mpeg-2 DVD is maybe 9 mb/s.)

Of course, with HD videos and Blu-ray disks, you can get much MUCH higher Target Bit Rates.

I don’t know if this will help you, but it solved my issue with poor quality title text. Please, let us know if you try this and how it works out for you!

[Michael Buie]

I know this is an old post, but I thought I’d close the loop on the question about a video of this BCC Effect. It’s hard to find because of the title, but here ya go.

Color Match in Sony Vegas Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeaGqtnjwBA

Be warned that the guy mis-speaks sometimes when he refers to “Source” and “Target”, but if you understand “Source” is the clip you are modifying (as he initially explaines) that you drop the effect onto … and that “Target” is the clip you want to makethe “Source” match to, you can overcome that glitch in his presentation.

He also talked about BCC Levels Gamma effect, which I used to help my footage even more.

Hope this helps.

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[Michael Buie]

I’m still having this issue, too. I installed latest drivers as was recommended to me by an Adobe Forum member, to no avail.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/4456558

Anyone figured out a setting or whatever to fix this? It is sad you have to wait so long for the audio waveform to be visible. This is what I need right away to sync multiple timelines.

What a drag!

Audio waveform refreshes display slowly on timeline

I LOVE so many things about this new release. The one persistent, “always dealing with” issue I have is I have to wait for the audio waveform to refresh most times when I zoom in and out or even just scroll back and forth on the timeline. This is a huge slowdown/impediment issue for me.

1. This never happened in previous versions

2. This is not during indexing … it’s all the time

3. It happens even when no effects are applied

4. No, I do not have a slow workstation (CPU, memory, drives all optimal) … remember, this never happend in previous versions

5. I have preview files/cache and project/source video on different hard drives

[Michael Buie]

Here is a sample of how I set up the export.

https://www.platinumproductionz.com/images/pp_full_dialog.jpg

Here is a close-up of the specific sections you should pay attention to.

https://www.platinumproductionz.com/images/pp_bd_sequence_settings.jpg

Use the Export Foramt “MPEG2-DVD” or “MPEG2 Blu-ray”, depending on which disk format you are burning. These Export types will not require transcoding in Encore.

(The ‘Match Sequence Settings’ check box is no longer checked because I modified the preset for max render quality, frame blending, etc.)

If you are creating a Dolby .ac3 file and it still plays stereo, then you are likely not using the “Surcode for Dolby Ditital” preset.

[Michael Buie]

I have only titled in Premiere Pro, but this help section seems to suggest you can:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/EncoreDVD/4.0/WS19E8985D-85E4-4df2-AC43-1615751386A9.html

[Michael Buie]

Actually, just do not force a transcode by right-clicking on any of the files and teling it to transcode.

I don’t use the Encore linking from Premiere Pro project. I render the video and audio using the mpeg DVD presets (for SD or Blu-Ray DVD) in Premiere Pro, adjust quality as I desire and export. The produced output format does not require transcoding by Encore. (One of the PRODUCTIVE tech support calls I made to Adobe taught me this.)

As a matter of fact, when you look at the properties of the assset when you import it into Encore, it will say “do not transcode”. Select your audio and video asset, right click for the dialog box and tell it to create New Timeline. They will appear on a time-line. Complete your normal Encore tasks (menus, chapters, First Startup, no orphans, etc), hit your Build button and go! It will be a lot quicker because it will not transcode, only order the files and write to disk. 🙂

[Michael Buie]

How about all that work getting a 5.1 Surround Sound DVD completed and the movie theatre only hooks up their Film Print Projector to the “Dolby Head” as they put it, not hte Digital Projector.

Does anyone here know what that’s about? Is there some digging I can get them to do to help them change that?

[Michael Buie]

Finally, I recommend you read this post. It helped me understand how to set up the 5.1 surround in Premiere Pro better. A lot of things to line up, huh?

Want to learn how to do Dolby 5.1 without paying for Surcode?
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/921599

Key points as I understand them:

1. Your “Master” audio has to be set to 5.1 (You can’t change a sequence after the fact, so create a new Sequence and under the “Tracks” tab, make sure the master is 5.1)

2. Your source tracks can be stereo, but once you assign the output of that track to the 5.1 Master Mix (or a Submx that is 5.1), you can use the puck control to position the audio within the sound space of the 5.1 (L Front, R Front, L Rear, R Rear, Center, Sub).

As I read, I am recognizing I may have some research to do and challenges ensuring the exported file or created DVD plays the 5.1 surround sound. I guess I will cross that bridge when I get to it {sigh}. But, I am doing it with a very short test project … not trying to tackle the learning of this within my 1 hr 50 min movie.

Again … I hope that helps!