Stan Jones
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It is true that a DVD legal file should not be transcoded, but only if it is in a timeline. Any motion asset in a menu will be transcoded UNLESS the only thing added to the menu are highlight layers. I cannot see what you have in the menu, but even one text layer (e.g. a title on the menu that is not a button or a text layer in a button that is not a highlight only). You must put such elements into the background motion movie.
When Encore transcodes a motion menu, it uses the default transcode settings for the project. If they are set fairly high, you get the problem you are seeing.
Stan Jones
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Encore creates one VTS per timeline. I don’t recall the specifics, but it is a limit compared to a top of the line option like Scenarist. I wonder if this poses a limit. When searching the 99 title method, I only find ways to break it!
Stan Jones
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Congrats on finding the answer. I was posting from my phone, and couldn’t remember the password!
It isn’t clear to me if you got this part. Select the “disk” in flowchart, then look for “Set Subtitle.” This sets the default for the disk unless it is changed. And there you can set it to “off,” “no change,” and a specific track #.
Set this to “off,” and then the “no change” works for all the others, until the user actually turns them on.
Stan Jones
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Good luck! Let us know how it goes.
Stan Jones
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I added a longer group of subtitles with some gaps. I don’t have a problem, but it is only about a 10 minute timeline.
But it shouldn’t be too big a deal to adjust the subtitle script file.
Stan Jones
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I worry about anything in Encore that uses alternate timecodes. It is so picky.
One option to try: select all subtitles on the subtitle track; drag to adjust.
Stan
Stan Jones
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I think the simple answer is that, yes, all timelines will follow the selection you make. No special timeline by timeline menus needed for that.
For each timeline, you have 2 audio tracks, stereo and 5.1. Make sure Track 1 is always stereo (or vice versa). The player doesn’t know 5.1 vs stereo; it knows Audio Track 1 and Track 2. You can set a default for the project, so say it will play stereo (Track 1) unless the user changes it.
It is usual to have a separate submenu for the audio selection. You might do it as you lay it out, but it is simply to understand if you use the submenu. I do not recall whether Encore will always allow the “resume” option if you use this through a popup mid movie. When you go to that menu and click 5.1 (selecting Track 2 as the audio to now play), it changes the audio track to be used for the rest of the project. Whatever timeline you then select from any menu, it will play Track 2.
Stan
Stan Jones
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An unusual error. I’d restart your Mac and try again.
Go back to your iso and see if it is not okay. Burn to disk and try in a DVD player.
Stan Jones
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The build panel omitted all the disk info. Good you got it to build.
Encore creates a DVD with only a VIDEO_TS folder. The AUDIO-TS folder is not need for regular DVD audio/video.
If you opened the .iso and got the folder structure rather than it playing the DVD, you probably “mounted” the iso (like a drive) and saw the files in it. I don’t know if Finder does that automatically or not. A computer DVD player may or may not handle .iso files.
Stan Jones
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Please post a screenshot of your build panel. I agree, it makes no sense!
Stan Jones