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You could try to use the “flicker removal” action for Photoshop available at adobeevangelists.com: Adobe Encore DVD, but from what you are describing I doubt that it will solve your problem.

Could it be that your menu background somehow landed in a subpicture highlighting layer (a “=1” layer)?

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[andrew b.] “…but after i built DVD then all the menu appears impossibly bad”

Do you mean the entire menu, including the menu background, or just the buttons?

Are you on NTSC or PAL? At what size was the menu created?

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Ranked by readability DVD-R and DVD+R are about equal, followed by DVD+RW, while DVD-RW is the least readable of the writable formats.

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What is probably causing the “stutter stutter” is the high bit rate. For set top player playback of writable DVDs it is generally recommended to keep the maximum bit rate of the MPEG-2 video at 7Mb/s, if the audio is compressed to Dolby Digital (AC3) at 192Kb/s. If you have to use uncompressed PCM, the maximum video bit rate shouldn’t exceed 5.5Mb/s.

The slimline type DVD-ROM drives used in laptops can be even more problematic than set top players; some don’t play writable DVDs at all and many have serious problems reading DVD-R media. It may help to lower the maximum bit rate even further, to 5Mb/s plus AC3 audio. If you can’t use compressed audio, you would have to use a maximum of 3.5Mb/s which will almost certainly prove to be too low for satisfactory results.

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777.44 plus 507.33 equals 1284.77 which is larger than 1024… 😉

Converting (compressing) the audio to Dolby Digital should get you back on track.

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A quick way to check would be with Bitrate Viewer or of course in the settings of CCE SP.

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The message (which I believe is a warning rather than an error) probably means that Encore has shifted the position of chapter markers or the start/end of any trims you may have made to the nearest start of a GOP (indicated by the white ticks above the timeline).

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A DVD-10 is a single layer double sided DVD. The content for each side is authored just the same as for a DVD-5. If you can find writable DVD-10 media (they are rare) each side is burned separately.

Apart from a small saving in storage space, there is little advantage in using one DVD-10 instead of two DVD-5 discs.

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From a post on the VideoHelp.com site:

An exerpt from the Phillips DVDR615/17 manual…

“Best Picture Quality
If you are using a Digital Video or Digital 8 camcorder, connect the DV IN IN jack of the DVD Recorder to the corresponding DV OUT jack on the camcorder. When films are transferred, the original recording date and time are stored as DVD subtitles. During playback, you can display this data on the TV screen by using the ‘E’ function (Subtitle).”

(from Philips DVDR 615)

It doesn’t say how you can turn this feature off.

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JoJoV,

I am not quite sure what you want to do in “2” (with the alpha channel), but I believe that either Adobe Encore DVD or MediaChance DVD-lab Pro could do the job. Encore has direct DVD+R DL burning support, DVD-lab Pro requires a workaround for dual layer burning.