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Still using our old copy of encore. It still does what I need it do, and I’ve figured out a workaround for what I had the scripts doing in DVD studio. Though the solution in Encore isn’t as elegant. But I’ve saved the project as a template so that saves me time. My issue is still that Encore can be a bit buggy. On the last blu-ray, I had to recreate the entire project from scratch since a bug caused it to fail on build every time — seems other people have the same issues on the forums.
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That was going to be my next step — but it seems that if you can link multiple folders in one go, you should be able to link and transcode multiple folders in one step as well.
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I’ll have to look into it more.
The producer currently has a thumbnail and metadata list from shotputpro.
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Avid Pan & Zoom has been broken for at least 2 years. You’ll get a “boomerang” type move, no matter what settings you try. It’s a known bug and 2 years ago I was told they were working on it. Earlier in the year, I called for an update and customer support said they were working on replacing pan & zoom with something else completely.
I was looking into Stage Tools Moving Picture but didn’t want to pony up the $250. But at this point it would be well worth it.
The quick and dirty workaround is set your project for 4K, import your stills (or reimport), and go back to HD. When you place a still on the timeline, you’ll see the frameflex effect. This at least allows you to pan & zoom, but it won’t ease in and out. Not much good when you’re working on a documentary composed entirely of stills.
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I was literally just reading an old forum thread from a few years ago on Adobe’s site about this exact issue. I’ve was using DVDstudio for a long time but switched over to Encore last year when clients started asking for Blu-rays. Unfortunately Encore doesn’t support scripting, which I sometimes need, and it’s still buggy, with no support anymore.
In the thread someone suggested Sony’s midlevel authoring program DoStudio. Unfortunately I just looked and Sony dropped support and sales on March 1. I do see that Sony is still distributing Vegas DVD, though it seems they sold it to another company. Then there’s Sony Bluprint but from what I understand it’s geared towards hollywood users and comes with a price tag to match. I have no experience with any of Sony’s options.
Someone on another forum suggested a European company that has a couple different offering for BDs at different price levels. It’s not a pretty UI, but from what I can tell it might give us all the functionality we need. Depending on the level of software, it’s from 800-3000 Euros. They also offer a BD UHD authoring tool if you’re ready to jump into that realm. https://www.dvd-logic.com
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I fixed the same issue in Encore 5.5 by simply deleting the offending file from encore and re-importing.
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From what I’ve read in some other forums. PGCedit will allow you modify the DVD structure to force first play.
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I was literally just reading an old forum thread from a few years ago on Adobe’s site about this exact issue. I’ve was using DVDstudio for a long time but switched over to Encore last year when clients started asking for Blu-rays. Unfortunately Encore doesn’t support scripting, which I sometimes need, and it’s still buggy, with no support anymore.
In the thread someone suggested Sony’s midlevel authoring program DoStudio. Unfortunately I just looked and Sony dropped support and sales on March 1. So I’m not sure what our options are anymore between the simple consumer level authoring programs, and the ridiculously expensive Sony Bluprint (from what I hear, price isn’t published).
I do see that Sony is still distributing Vegas DVD Architect, though it seems they sold it to a subsidiary. In any case, I don’t know much about it. Hopefully someone else can chime in.
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Atto H680
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*edit*
with BRU