Roadkill
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Do you know or can you find out what the make and model of your client’s client’s player is?
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Bob,
My suspicion is that some of the audio you have used is in MPEG-1 Layer II (mpa) format, instead of Dolby Digital (AC3) or PCM (wav). NTSC set top DVD players are not required to support MPEG audio and even if a player does, then this type of audio will only be sent to the analog output and not to the digital one.
Preferably all audio imported in Encore should be PCM, 48KHz, 16 bit, stereo and be transcoded by Encore to Dolby Digital. (Or imported as Dolby Digital.) If there is no other source available than the MPEG-1 Layer II audio, make sure that you let Encore convert it to AC3.
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Bob,
Is there no audio at all, no audio in certain sections, or does the audio come and go at random?
Is the audio transcoded to Dolby Digital (AC3) and if so at which bit rate?
What is the peak bit rate of the MPEG-2 video? (You can check this with Bitrate Viewer.)
If you compare the bit rate of the old (okay) and the new (not okay) projects, is there a significant difference? -
[Robert Smith] “…or am I stuck doing it again?”
I am afraid you are stuck. 🙁
With the experience you got getting it just right, redoing it will probably go faster. 🙂 -
Dex,
I noticed that you have probably found the solution in this thread. 🙂 “Optimize Stills” is a setting that Adobe should have removed from Premiere years ago!
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The only ones I know that may meet your requirements:
PRV-LX1
PRV-LX10
JVC BD-X200E -
To get an idea how eDVD works, please have a look at Alex Alexzander’s Sonic eDVD 3 Enhanced DVD Authoring Review and Tutorial.
You can download a trial version from the Sonic website (link in my previous post).
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So both problems solved? 🙂
The troublemaker in this case is probably the “ref” part of QT. A reference file is more or less an “edit decision list”; it tells the application that reads it which bit of source file to use where and what to do with it. Which is okay as long as the app being fed the QT ref file is 100% comfortable with it. Apparently ProCoder isn’t.
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[Ben Wharton] “So have to render out AVI files from Avid instead.”
In that case I would suggest to render out a small section to test with. It would be a shame to waste a lot of time if the problem turns out not to be with the QT ref source.
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[Ben Wharton] “Also now Encore is acting up!”
Could it be that you have used the “override” option in the Properties of the timeline? If so and you aren’t using it to do a special navigational trick, revert it to “Not Set”.