Roadkill
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Kirk,
Does the computer play other (“store bought”) DVDs? If so, which folders and files do you see on the DVD you made yourself when you look at it in Windows Explorer / My Computer?
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Hi Gomo,
AFAIK Encore doesn’t accept single frame MPEG files as source for a still menu. If it did, that would have been the best solution; both the video and the still menu background could have been encoded with ProCoder.
The only route that I can think up at the moment is to create a couple of still menus in a dummy project in Encore, build a Video_TS folder, extract the single frame MPEGs from the VOB and then play around with every setting you can find in ProCoder until you get as close as possible to the “look” of the Encore encoding and finally use those settings for the actual video.
Especially if you are on NTSC (I am a PAL person) the “601” setting could be important. Also see this thread on the Canopus ProCoder forum:
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[Jan Raimann] “…the output mpeg looks quite good, but after importing in encore (without transcoding) the image quality doesnt looks better.”
Jan,
Is Encore set to “Not Transcode” the imported MPEG-2 video? If not, Encore could be re-encoding the video which certainly won
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Unless you got tons of menus in your project, the easiest solution would be to use motion menus instead of still menus. Create the entire menu as a short DV AVI clip, including any button shapes (except subpicture highlighting) in something Premiere or After Effects and encode to MPEG with ProCoder – like the rest of your video.
In Encore only add the subpicture highlighting. That way the MPEG encoding should remain unchanged.
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[kutterup] “when i put the file on my flash drive…”
What is “the file”? (Name, size?)
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If possible, the best solution would be to burn directly with Encore. If you want to burn with Nero and you want to avoid compatibility problems, I would suggest to add some kind of “dummy” DVD-ROM content to your project so that the total size is at least 1GB before creating the disc image file. Quite a few set top players will reject a DVD that has less data on it.
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It is quite surprising that the encoder even accepted a source that was 6 lines “too low”.
Btw: If you chop off 6 lines from one side (as you did) or 2 from one side an 4 from the other, the field order stays unchanged. But if you would remove 3 lines from each side, the field order is inverted.
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I don’t think that this is a PAR issue, but rather the player switching from playing video to playing a still. One thing you could try would be to create a short video clip from the still and use that as background for a motion menu.
Another option which would give an even smoother transition from intro to menu would be to create a single clip with first the intro video and then the menu (including any buttons, except the button highlights) and use that as background for a motion menu. In the Properties of the motion menu set the Loop point to the time where the intro ends and the menu starts. This will cause the intro part to be played only once, while the menu part will loop. Plus the subpicture highlighting for the buttons will be delayed until after the loop point.
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Authoring applications that appear to allow full color rollovers are doing the workaround technique for you. The same restriction with software DVD players applies.
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Encore is a DVD authoring application, not a video editing app. One timeline holds one video clip. If you need two or more video segments in a single timeline, you would have to prepare them as a single file before importing in Encore.