Tim Kurkoski
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Other than a search on Google, no.
When are you getting the error?
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Go to the preferences and disable OpenGL. It sounds like AE is having a problem with it. (Sometimes it’s necessary to close AE, remove the OpenGL plug-in, and then open your project again.)
Did this comp work before? Did other comps work? Have you changed anything with the video card lately, like installing new drivers?
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Well, it was 50/50. Either it did support it or it didn’t, and I couldn’t really remember which. Stupid swiss cheese memory.
There you go, Brown- keep your selection videos short. Might want to keep the bitrate down if you have a lot of them. Remember that you also have to include your navigation menus in that 1 GB.
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I’ll chime in here to note that there is a fantastic community of Premiere Elements users at the Adobe User-to-User forums. Two of them (Chuck Engels and Steve Grisetti) even wrote a book on the program, and they answer almost every post at that forum.
https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bb574e6Steve and I are also leaders at the CreativeCalf Premiere Basics forum, which is much slower than this one or the Adobe one, but still useful.
https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=3Finally, shameless plug: Steve, Chuck, and I run a web site focused on digital video and digital image editing, where we have been posting tutorials, guides, and answers to questions.
https://www.videoinasnap.comEnjoy.
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Where are you playing the DVD? On a set-top player or a computer? Try as many devices as you can. This could be a problem with how the device is reading the disc, or possibly how it’s handling the audio if you’re using Dolby.
You can always change the bitrate of the audio by changing the transcode settings (assuming you’re using Dolby; PCM is a fixed bitrate). You could also try using PCM instead of Dolby, or vice versa, although PCM takes up much more room.
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Sure. What you need to do is make the segments where the user has a choice into menus, with the video as a background. Set the end action of the previous video segment to link to the menu. If you don’t want the buttons visible, simply edit the menu in Photoshop and turn off the visibility of the layers inside of the button’s layer set (as long as they’re named correctly, Encore will still treat the layers as a button) and delete any highlight layers for the button. You’ll probably also want to set the buttons to auto-activate. Finally, link the buttons to the next segment of footage.
Once caveat to keep in mind: By DVD spec, the amount of data allowed for all menus on a disc is limited to 1 GB. To my knowledge most DVD players don’t enforce that, though, and I don’t think Encore does either, but it’s something to keep in mind.
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You’ll need to reduce the size of the main application window so you can manually drag the position and corner to fill out both screens. No easier way that I’m aware of.
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Try using multiple instances of the Green Screen Key effect to pick out multiple ranges of color. You can add as many as you need.
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The Canopus boxes are good, I’ve used the ADVC-100 for a while. If you have the cash, the 300 would probably be a good bet. I would stay away from the internal cards, not because they’re bad, just because they’re more work to install and less portable.
The Pyro boxes also have a good reputation, though I’ve heard of a few having to go back for repair.
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The dialog is probably on the 2nd monitor still. You’ll probably have to trash the preferences to get it to reset itself.