Stan Jones
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Since you transcoded the Premiere sequence in Encore (before or after a build doesn’t matter), you must select the sequence (the “asset” not the time4line), and “revert to original.” The timeline will automatically update. If the revised sequence is not shorter or longer, there is not adjustment to make to the timeline. If you changed chapter markers, you must select the timeline and tell encore to update markers.
Stan Jones
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VOBs on disk are no more than about a gig. However, they can be much shorter. Do you have a chapter marker or any division in that timeline? Check the other vob’s; you may find the rest of your piece.
The useless files (.xmpses and .xmp) are sidecar files that adobe uses to pass info not in the file itself. When you import the asset files (m2v and a3c or wav) to Encore, and the xmpses and xmp are in the same directory as the assets, Encore uses them to obtain info about indexing, chapters, etc. There is no harm in not using them, but it may take a bit more time for import without them.
Stan Jones
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Are these motion menus? I’d look at the transcode settings for those. Remember that total bitrate includes audio.
If it is not the menus, then same issue re timeline. But at 7 seconds?
Stan Jones
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I know it is time for you to complete this, but curious. Did you try the 1-pass VBR workaround?
Stan Jones
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Under the motion tab on menu 1, did you set it to animate buttons? Did you render motion menus? I only saw one of the uploads.
But you seem to be asking not why the thumbnails in menu one don’t animate, but why the thumbnail of menu 2 in menu 1 doesn’t have the motion it has in menu 2 itself? Answer is Encore just doesn’t do that. Does any DVD authoring program?
Encore will animate a thumbnail that is linked to a timeline. This thumbnail (assuming it is a thumbnail button) is linked to a menu, which has no timeline from which to pull the video.
Stan Jones
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I’m confused. Did you put thumbnail buttons in the first menu? Normally, thumbnails are just in the chapter menu.
Stan Jones
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I would create a new, simple DVD project to see if Encore is having some basic problem. A reinstall may be the issue.
I don’t know your OS from the info, but see this:
Troubleshoot system errors and freezes | Adobe software on Mac OS 10.x
https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/824/cpsid_82414.html
Stan Jones
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I have heard that Encore estimates (until the build some sizes are just estimates), and that a fudge factor is added. The size of the fudge was increased between CS4 and CS5?
Also, it seems to me that Encore was making each chapter into its own video on disk?
In any case, for some projects, undershooting made Encore happy.
Stan Jones
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Let us know…
Stan Jones
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CS5 H.264 2 pass bug.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/3876184
However, see post 20 in the following link, where Jeff Bellune is suggesting (I think) that this may not be a single 2 pass vbr bug, but a relationship between the profile also.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/697684
Fixed in CS6 I think.
Stan Jones