[Rob Sgarlata]

Do a search on Google or the search engine of your choice. There are a few tools that can do this. I suggesting reading the reviews first, though.

[Rob Sgarlata]

If the first suggestion doesn’t work for you how about using a DV camera as a pass-through. Connect the digibeta deck to the DV camers and the camera to the workstation. This should convert the Digibeta to DV.

[Rob Sgarlata]

I’m not toally up on this but doesn’t Encore allow you to link extra material such as you are talking about? If you have the Encore manual it should explain it. I would look up the reference for you but I can’t find my manual, and that is killing me!!

[Rob Sgarlata]

Well, I still have not found the solution so I want to try using Nero to burn the DVD. Everything seems to be working fine up to the point of actually burning the DVD. I even burned an .img file onto my harddrive and used my software player and everything worked perfectly.

The DVD’s are burning, I can see the information on the disk, they just won’t play!

How do I do the Nero process? Out of Encore do I choose “dvd folder?” Then when I open Nero what option do I use for making a DVD that will play on set-top players? I don’t have to use Nerovision and reencode, do I?.

Thanks for all the help.

[Rob Sgarlata]

Here is an interesting point. Over the last two weeks I have burned probably 60 DVD’s of this exact type using my burner. These have been copies of a teaching that took a total of five DVD’s and I have made about a dozen sets. Today I had someone at the church run through a random sample of the disks and see if they work. He said they all worked flawlessly.

These were copies made using Nero, no encoding or authoring done. So, to me that largely (but not completely)rules out media problems and burner problems, so right now I am thinking (hoping) it is a data rate issue. I will know later tonight.

[Rob Sgarlata]

I will check on that

[Rob Sgarlata]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Last night I uninstalled some programs that are known to cause conflicts with Encore and burned another DVD. No good. On another forum it was suggested that I try a lower data rate for encoding, but I have not run into this problem before with the same data rate. I am beginning to suspect bad disks. I did not buy them myself and they are +R. I typically use -R. It could be the speed issue, although I think my burner can do 16x.

I’ll report on what I find.

Thanks again.

Rob

[Rob Sgarlata]

I don’t know if this compares, but I have just completed several projects that use motion backgrounds in .mov format. I imported them directly into Premiere Pro 1.5 and they work perfectly. I do not have Quicktime Pro.

[Rob Sgarlata]

Just thought I would report on my test of Tim’s theory. It worked. I trimmed 10 frames from the beginning and end of each clip and the transitions work now. Ten frames might be more than is necessary, but I wanted to be sure for testing purposes.

Thanks for the tip Tim.

Rob

[Rob Sgarlata]

Thanks, Tim, I think there may be a few black frames at the end of each clip. This sounds like it will work.