Nik Alhazred
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You made my day with this post! ☺ . You are so dead on. It is ridiculous how inefficient our current system is. It absolutely is at LEAST a 5:1 hour ratio for squeezing out an edit right now, and frankly, it’s an unpolished ugly looking thing that, as I think I mentioned, doesn’t do me any favors. Add on a second cut for any changes requested from the client and that’s another 1:1 so yeah. Stupid long turnaround times. You are a pro among pros. Thanks so much for your understanding and taking the time to provide amazing step-by-step advice. I will definitely figure out a way to finesse this into a conversation with my bossman since it will save him a lot of stress too!
You rock. Thank you so much!
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I so envy you. ????
My employer tried a very reudementary version of this once, back when they were doing ALL of the production in-house. Due to a small budget, inexperience (and I’m sure other factors), it did not work out the way they tried to capture the presentation in-progress. It must have left a very bad taste in their mouths because I was immediately shut down when I brought it up.
Do you have any links to your work? Maybe if I were able to show the big boss what it can look like done the right way, they might reconsider the way they are going about it. This (hours long conference/lecture videos) is literally all we do video-wise. I end up looking inept because it takes me weeks to crank out amateurish looking videos. GIGO. lol.
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[Rich Rubasch] “Delete all the slides you DON’t need from the presentation and export the animating ones as one long animation and then edit in your editor.”
I did try that approach and I think it would work great for a shorter presentation. I’ll give it a shot the next time I have one to work on that’s not this long with the slides already laid out as .png files on a separate video track on the timeline in Premiere. For now, I’ve gone and made a video export of every individual slide I need, and am currently plopping them down into place in the timeline, then going from there. Tedious, but it will get it done.
Totally appreciate the help!
After much…..much searching, conferring with those of you who were kind enough to offer their wisdom, and talking to a few friends of mine that use powerpoint a whole lot more than I do, I think that the solutions we have all come up with are about the only ones that are out there.
Seems like there is perhaps an opportunity here for someone smarter than I that knows how to create software ☺
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[Jim Cunningham] “When I need to include the PP animation, I use a screen capture software and run the entire slide show (quickly) then use freeze frames to time to speaker.”
Cool, just so I’m clear though, after you export the whole presentation as a video from Powerpoint….
What screen cap software do you use?
What method are you using (i.e. player/software/etc. ) for the playback of the slideshow video you exported from Powerpoint
where you can still see the slides that the speaker is using and/or hear what they are saying?I’m not normally one to ask for hand holding. i’m just kind of overwhelmed at the moment – partially because of my terrible workflow on this thing I’m sure, LOL. I so appreciate your input!
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Eric, I think I get the idea, but are you talking about this software here? This looks like cloud based software, and I’m not sure if it would handle the 4k stuff I’m working with smoothly if that’s the case, unless I’m missing something.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/gopro
Link would be appreciated to the software you are referring to, thanks 🙂
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Just to clarify, by entire project, you mean all the source files, your project folder and your .ncor file were moved to your local C:\ ? That’s good. Just make sure that you are also building your DVD Folder on a local disk as well. If you’re doing both and still having the same problem then…..
I’m guessing you use Premiere Pro as well for video? If you do, definitely read this next part(from the Adobe Help Center) and if you don’t use Premiere check out the part at the bottom I bolded as it might help either way:
Media Cache Database
Adobe audio and video applications share a media cache database. The database tracks media accelerator files that improve performance and speed. For example, if Adobe Premiere Pro creates a conformed audio file, and you import media with that audio into Adobe Encore DVD, Encore uses the file from Premiere Pro, instead of creating a new conformed file. The media cache database informs Encore of the conformed file’s location. Click Clean to remove any old cached files; click Delete to discard the database (not the actual files, just the pointers to the files).
You can clean the database to free up additional disc space. You can delete the database to troubleshoot a project. -
My initial thought is that either one of your source files is gone, or the directory you are trying to build the DVD Folder to is invalid – as in it does not exist, is in use by something else… not accessible.
First, make sure that in the Build DVD dialog box your destination folder is a local hard drive with enough free space to house the project and NOT an external or network hard drive.
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I am of the understanding that this problem (as well as many other annoyances of DVD authoring) is simply a limitation of the DVD format’s technology.
Are you saying that you are able to create this kind of thing in the Sony DVD Architect software? If so I will definitely have to give it a trial run!
*soapbox quickie* I was originally excited when I found out CS3 could make Flash files, and thought it would be great to have my Demo Reel DVD and Website look the same. Two birds, one stone! Then I learned Flash basics and realized my DVD will never look that way. In fact, as a DVD it looks good, as a website it looks amateurish…. mediocre at best. If only we could use Flash and Javascript to author DVDs…. *end soapbox*
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I know how frustrating a problem like this can be and wanted to help as much as possible but won’t be around most of the rest of the day to reply, so I will try to be as thorough as possible in the hopes that if you do still have trouble and are able to answer the questions I ask (the more detailed the better), others should be able to get you an answer. I’m sure I’m leaving something out, but I’m short on time… I do apologize if my questions are kind of scattered, I’m just typing them as I think of them….
The first question I would need to ask…. It sounds like the process was going OK until you burned to disc. Did the transcoded footage play correctly on your computer? Have you been able to get your DVD to play on another system?
I found a pretty good transcoding article here. It is specific to going from 24p source footage to a 24p NTSC DVD.
If his rundown and instructions don’t help your specific problem, here are some starting questions:
What was the source footage shot on, and how was it imported to your editing system?
You said you created a “24p transcode preset”. Since this implies there was not one available by default, that would lead me to believe you might be using software that is older….
What kind of machine are you using? Basic system specifications could prove helpful.
What software (i.e. Premiere Pro 1.5) did you use to edit the footage? Did you use the editing software, Adobe Encore, or something third-party like Procoder 2 to transcode the footage?
Which settings did you use (in as much detail as possible) in creating your 24p transcoding preset? The transcoding article I linked to above goes in to great detail on the exact settings you need to use.
If you get through all of that and are still having issues, my next questions for you are in regards to your hardware.
First, What make and model DVD burner are you using? While I’m on the topic of burning… what type (brand) of DVDs are you burning to? Are they standard format? Double-layer?
You noted that you are able to view a different 24p DVD on your progressive-scan player. Assuming that the working DVD was not made by you, do you know who made it and/or what the different factor(s) are in the way it was produced?
I think that should get you headed down the right path toward solving the problem…. I tried to cover as many bases as possible since your post is a bit light on the details as of now.