[Roel Bus]

I thought the same thing, and have run into this a few times. The one thing you have to keep in mind, is that the project file is “DVD”, so all your menus etc. are 720×480. When you use the same project file and output it to 1920×1080, it will have to scale them up and it looks horrid…
What you can do is copy and past the project, change it to a Blu-ray project, copy your menus (if you modify them) and use HD menus for Blu-ray. Make sure the original file you are transcoding is in HD, which you said you did, and then check your transcode setting under Blu-ray.
It’s better than it was, but still a pain. The industry has moved on to digital files, but a lot of our clients sure have not!

[Roel Bus]

Hi Cole,
So you have already enabled (click visibility icon) on all the audio tracks.
In the Multicam track, you need to select just the audio track, choose Clip > Multi-camera > enable. Open the Multi-Camera monitor and select in the submenu the “Audio follows video” option.
That should do it.

[Roel Bus]

Luke,
A workaround could be this: sync your long clip with the first 5D clip, open that multiclip in the timeline, and then lay the other clips over the first clip in that sequence. Unfortunately you have to manually sync those clips but once they are, the entire sequence acts as a multicam. The 5D track will have gaps, but it should then all be synced.
The nice part about Premiere is you can modify multiclips after they are synced, add to them etc. it has worked for me with captured clips that had bad spots in them

[Roel Bus]

Steve,
If you go to “preferences – trim” you can check the “allow selection tool…without modifier keys”. It makes for much faster trimming and working overall. Then if you are using the selection key: when you are on a cut, the tool changes to the “roll”, and just before or after the cut it changes to the “ripple” (yellow arrow). If you want the “trim” (red arrow), which will leave a gap, hold down the command key when the arrow is yellow, and it will turn into a red one.
I have found this to speed up my editing dramatically. You then don’t need to use the shortcut keys for ripple or roll.

[Roel Bus]

I have run into this when I create both DVDs and blurays. You have to make sure that the project is set to Bluray, so that your timeline is the right format when you create it. Otherwise it will create the right files into a 720 x 480 timeline. So look at the timeline settings as well as your encoding settings

[Roel Bus]

Check your project and see if there if there are any problems there. If you have orphan timelines or menus, it includes them in your total project size. But then it does usually show up in the size indicator too. One area to check anyway

[Roel Bus]

Hi Alain,
m2v files are long GOP files, with (depending on your settings, but the default is) an i-frame every 15 frames. That means twice a second. The rest of the frames are interpretive, either forwards or backwards. They do not contain all the information like the i-frames do.
After encoding, Encore does not let you put a marker on anything other than an i-frame, so you can’t do frame accurate marking anymore.
That’s one reason why markers can not be put where you want it.
Hope this helps,
Roel

[Roel Bus]

You have to have a “first play” whether it is a video or a menu.
Now I’ve never done this, but how about creating a solid colour video with the transparency set very low and a start button to use for the menu set as “first play”. You’d still see the TV screen and there would be a button to start the DVD. Just make sure the menu loops forever.
Like I said, I have not tried that, and I don’t know if Encore will let you use a menu with a “see-through background” but it would work it it did.
Roel

[Roel Bus]

Hey Pat,
I find that to be one of the items that FCP was better. When you create a title, there are a few buttons at the top, one of them is a “new title based on current one”. It copies the current title, but you have to give it a new name. It is basically like creating a new title, but now you can modify that one. Unfortunately in your case you are going to end up with a big list of titles. Create a bin and put them in there. As far as I know, you can not just copy a title in the timeline and change one version without affecting the other.
I hope they change that….
Roel

[Roel Bus]

I was running very similar specs, if you are on an early 2008 Mac Pro… I actually upgraded to the 5770 graphics card last year, as I could not afford the Quadro (any Mac version). With Mountain Lion, this card will give you Open GL hardware acceleration, which makes some difference in rendering.
I ended up upgrading my RAM to 20 GB, which is beneficial to the entire machine. I keep reading about the fantastic performance of the Quadro cards, and while I don’t doubt that, it’s definitely combined with lots of RAM and a fast enough HD array that it works great.
So first of all you need a RAID array of fast enough HD’s, then lots of RAM, and then the video card. The card really helps with complicated filters, plugins etc, that then play back without need for render
My system now is
2008 Mac Pro
4.5 TB internal RAID 0
20 GB RAM
ATI 5770 Graphics