[Phil Condit]

Hi Jeff,

When you’re right, you’re right! A faulty power supply was sending out borderline voltages. I got that voltage up and it output a continuous file for Encore. Hopefully, that takes care of my problem.

Thank you VERY MUCH for helping me with this problem!

-Phil

[Phil Condit]

Hi Jeff,

Vegas output an “mpg” file, rather than the “m2v” you recommend. It was extremely difficult to get Vegas to output the files so I imported the “mpg” and “ac3” files to Premiere, assembled them, and output that timeline to “m2v” and “wav” files, downgrading my 5.1 audio to stereo. I say ‘files’ because whenever I tried to output the entire timeline my computer would blink off – just like it did with Vegas – only I could output longer segments – up to 16 minutes without it crashing.

I imported those files to Encore. There were some discrepancies in length between the picture and sound files of a frame, or portion of a frame, which added up to two frames at the end of a 90 minute timeline. I was willing to live with that. But when I checked the program before building a disc it reported, four errors, all “The gap…must have a duration of either zero, or at least 0.4 seconds”. I checked every place where the segments came together and could find no gaps. I re-output the files from Premiere and got better matching lengths of video and audio files. That took it down to three gaps, but after three times outputting and building timelines I figure I’m not going to get rid of them that way.

When I first got the “four gaps” message, I went ahead and connected all the navigation in the flow chart and attempted to build the disc. I received an abort screen stating, “PGC ‘EV timeline’ has an error at 5385.1965s. The aspect ratio of this file is not supported by DVD.” I output all the files exactly the same way. There was nothing at that point in the timeline.

Any suggestions on how I can make a DVD of my 90 minute film?

I am stumped because I have made many DVDs prior to this without any of these problems.

Thanks for your help!

[Phil Condit]

Thank you very much for responding!

Yes, I am bringing in an mpeg file and an ac3 file. Vegas doesn’t give me the option of outputting both simultaneously. Ac3 is important as this is a 5.1 audio track. I am thinking about loading all of my mpeg and ac3 segments together either in Vegas or Premiere and trying to output a single 90 minute mpeg file and ac3 file. When I tried to output my entire timeline from Vegas, it would process for a minute or two then crash my computer, turning it off. That’s a separate issue I need to look into, but consequently, I have twenty four segments I need to assemble in Encore (unless I do the consolidation step mentioned above).

Any other suggestions/observations.

[Phil Condit]

I don’t know if I should post this as a new question since this thread happened awhile back, but I’ll give it a go.

I am encoding Mpeg 2 (Main Concept, DVD Architect 24P NTSC widescreen video stream) out of Vegas, which I have done many times before. The file plays correctly in Media Player Classic from head to tail. When I import this file into Encore CS4 the video stops 13 seconds-11 frames before the end of the clip.

I re-encoded the piece from Vegas with the same result – full scene in Media Player, short scene in Encoder.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Phil Condit]

Thanks for the advice. I will hop on Lynda.com and review the Flash tutorials.

[Phil Condit]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for getting back to me. However, I am a little unclear about your response.

You say that DVD is 720×480 so my Flash will be the same. That makes perfect sense, but my DVD displays the image as 16:9 where the Flash displays it as 4:3 with the sides cut off.

When you say it is best to do the flash project separately, do you mean to have Encore compress the original HD footage using Flash output – or should I not be using Encore at all? And if not, What should I use?

Thanks for you help!
-Phil

[Phil Condit]

Thanks for the suggestion. They are set on HDV. I even tried starting another project with the correct settings of 1080 30p to see if maybe I did something wrong the first time, but with the same result.

-Phil

[Phil Condit]

Thanks for your help! So now I guess I have to go back to my original problem that when I tried to build the DVD I received a “Encoding Error” message with no elaboration. If my project checked out without any errors before I tried to build it, what can I look for now? Or should I start a new thread?

[Phil Condit]

Hey – it helps if I read the directions. Here is the screen grab I’ve been trying to send. It has 10 buttons, each with a subpicture highlight.

[Phil Condit]

https://i1.creativecow.net/u-upload.php#
This is the screen grab of my Scene Selection page – again, I hope.