Neil Wilkes
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There is still a possible hidden Gotcha with the suggestion to use Chapter End Actions.
IF the chapters do not fade to black, then there will be a noticeable pause at the point where each Chapter End Action is, because the player will freeze up whilst it reads the cell command & decides if it needs to act upon it or not.
So, there is really only one option and that is to set up the Chapter/Scene Selection menus as “Entry Point Only”.
Otherwise you will either hit the bug, or hit a pause as the player crosses the Cell Command. -
I’ll try.
If I am reading you correctly, you want the full 3 minute Audio file to loop with your menu, yes?
Try this:
Menu 1 – The 4 second one that After Effects created.
Menu 2 – the final frame of the After Effects menu, as a still, with your full 3 minute Audio file.
Set the end action of Menu 1 to go to Menu 2, and set Menu 2 to loop. -
You have too many Chapter Playlists…
This is a bug, and a nasty one.
Drop the number of Chapter Playlists to 19 and you will be okay.
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What format was the Audio exported out from Premiere Pro as?
If you used MPEG Audio, this is the cause of the problem (assuming we are talking about one long video file here)
Try exporting as PCM Audio, and letting Encore transcode to Dolby Digital.(The problem is recompressing MPEG Audio to yet another compressed format. Bad plan, as mPEG Audio is not your friend)
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If this menu is set to Loop, then it is going to cut off as soon as the image sequence ends.
Please remember that in DVD-Video, you are always going to be graphically dominant, Audio Subservient.
This means that the image or movie or still is always the “lead” item.
So a 4 second AVI set to loop will play the AVI, then loop – and it WILL cut the Audio short at multiplex. There is no way to avoid this unless you do not want the menu to loop.
A possible workaround involves a little lateral thinking, and you could try this:
A – Set your menu to the full 3 minutes, including Audio by extending the final frame to go to the length of the Audio file.
B – Set the first 4 seconds to go into a still menu, with your 3 minute Audio file.
Set the end action of this still menu with the Audio to revert back to the initial 4 second video clip. -
I’m only sorry it’s not good news…..
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You can use any MPEG-2 encoder that will accept a MOV/Quicktime file.
CCE-SP, TMPGEnc Xpress 3 or greater, MainConcept, ProCoder 2 etc.
Alternatively, just import the MOV file right into EncoreDVD 2 and it will deal with it for you automatically. I have found this can do a really good job plus you don’t need to think about any settings at all. -
Essentially, you’re stuffed.
NTSC uses 720×480, with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 0.9 for video & menus, with a frame rate of 29.97fps.
PAL uses 720×576, with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 1.066 for Video & Menus, with a frame rate of 25fps.There is simply no way to do the conversion in one easy step.
Best option is to use something along the lines of either
A – DV Film Atlantis for the Video or VOB conversions, but be aware you will lose all Surround information (If present), all chapter markers & all menu structures.
B – Start over, from your Premiere Pro output.
Import the NTSC footage into a PAL Premiere project, hit the “enter” key and then simply export out as a PAL movie or MPEG-2 file. -
It’s all down to the Pixel Aspect Ratio.
In NTSC 4:3 it’s 0.9 and in 16:9 NTSC it’s 1.422 (or something like that) -
AVI is far, far better than MPEG-2.
MPEG-2 uses massive compression, AVI is much less.
For absolute highest quality from AE, get hold of the BlackMagic codec & export as 10 bit BlackMagic MOV file.
Encode this to MPEG-2 and import into Encore.