Stan Jones
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Top left of your image; click the “output” tab.
Sorry that I missed that you are CS5. “Scale to fill” was added with CS6.
Prior to that time, you had to manually crop top and bottom – also in that output window. For NTSC, the last I saw was 12 top and 12 bottom. That was based on the fewest cropped to avoid thin black bars on the sides.
Stan Jones
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For a DVD, use MPEG2-DVD. If your source was high def, use the “Scale to Fill” in the scaling section of the export.
The bitrate should be calculated to get the highest datarate that fits.
Stan Jones
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Congrats for figuring that out! I thought I knew what you meant by “styles,” but I was still “in” the library.
Stan Jones
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I suspect on the problem machine, you only downloaded the basic content and did not run the installer. Many of the files do not have the working extension.
Use the download file you used for the other 3.
Stan Jones
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Sorry; I did not explain myself well in my post that began “540 minutes….”
Yes, I see no way the quality will be good enough for you to do a one disk project, or a single dual layer. And Encore has frequent issues with layer breaks, so, unless you can get to your one disk by going to a single dual layer, I did not think multiple dual layers was the answer.
My point about an automatic setting was to test what the max quality is that you can get out of your transfers. How did the automatic transcode look? If it looks good to you, then fine; proceed and look at the effect on quality of high compression. If it does not look good, then either a) high compression may not be much worse and/or b) it will illustrate the quality price of using fewer disks with lower quality. Ultimately, you are the judge.
Assuming the automatic transcode test has good quality, go ahead and jump to the lowest Encore will do. See your transcode to CBR 1.5. That transcoded file size is the smallest Encore will produce.
Stan Jones
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[Ray Nyugen] “Added to timeline and ‘automatic’transcode setting -> 47:13min video, H264,”
You said DVD, so you must transcode to MPEG2-DVD, not H.264. In the image you show (I realize it is a later experiment), you should see “automatic” in the top (“DVD Transcoding”) section. Have nothing else on the disk, other than a non-motion menu. Encore is going to try to fill the disk with as high a quality as it can. In your project settings, for DVD, make sure the max setting is at least 8.
Stan Jones
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Has anyone done this? I’m not on both, so can’t test.
Look at your folder structure. Project name must match its folder, and the folder must be in the same folder as the project file.
Stan Jones
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540 minutes on one single layer DVD requires a bitrate average below 1MB. Encore (the Adobe MPEG2-DVD options) will not go below 1.5. I think it would look pretty terrible, and that’s assuming that it looks pretty to start – transfers don’t always.
You can go to a dual layer disk, but what is the point. This is a multi-DVD project.
As an experiment, I suggest that you put one file (if they vary in length, something no more than 45 minutes) into Encore, and set it to “automatic” as the transcode setting. It will probably do that by default.
Make a disk. See how the quality looks.
Now put 2 hours worth.
I would build these to folder or image and burn separately.
Stan Jones
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The size of AVI files is meaningless; they could contain DV, divx, or uncompressed.
You transcode the AVI’s into MPEG2-DVD (Encore will do it for you). Anything over an hour will lose quality; over 2 hours significant quality. Many factors….
What is the total minutes you are planning to put on?
Stan Jones
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This text is actually in the same layer as the graphic.
But yes, glow and such concepts are a problem in the DVD spec for highlights, not just in Encore. Highlights are only 2 bit color; really don’t allow effects or fancy graphics. Just move on to bluray, lol.
Part of what you were seeing is that Encore (any DVD authoring) bakes all of your button layer set (other than highlights) into a background and then the highlights get added on top of that. No matter how you arrange the button set layers, in the end, that is what you have. So text that is not in a highlight layer becomes part of the background, and the highlights appear over it. That is why so many highlights do not cover the whole button area.
Re the glow, in Encore, you can try a workaround using autoactive to actually go to a different menu where the normal state of that button has the glow; the user sees it as the button glowing when they select it. For a 4 button menu, you would have 4 menus, one for each button in the selected state.
But that technique does not work on computers because a mouse-over does not autoactivate as a TV remote “select” does.
Stan Jones