Tim Kurkoski
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What’s different between the clip you are replacing and the clip you are replacing it with? Premiere Pro may be detecting a difference in frame rate, frame size, etc.
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If you’d like someone to look at your menu and just offer advice, try creating a new post so it gets more visibility. You may also want to copy the post in the Cow’s DVD Authoring forum. I’d offer my own services, but with the holidays I’m really busy. If you’d still like someone to poke at it after the New Year has settled in, feel free to e-mail me: tikitim@videoinasnap.com
If you’re looking for professional guidance (in trade for currency, services, or rare valuable goods), my advice is much weaker. Google, the phone book, and the recommendations of other folks on the Cow are your best bets.
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I’ve seen a few tutorials on how to do the hologram effect as seen in Star Wars. Maybe these will get you started:
https://www.freewebs.com/vfxzone/tutorials/hologram.htm
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Again, DV (both NTSC and PAL) is always interlaced. Even 24 frame progressive video on the Panasonic and Canon 24P cameras is interlaced, it’s just interlaced in a special way so 24P can be extracted from it.
Your transcode settings always affect quality, though if you’re just encoding with the DV codec I don’t think there’s much you can change. I would just go with the default settings and leave it at that, unless you’re having a specific problem.
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Video on a DVD is always MPEG. Encore transcodes your AVI to an MPEG-2 file. Transcoding to MPEG-2 out of Premiere Pro actually saves you some time.
Premiere Pro and Encore share the same MPEG encoder, so there will be no difference in quality. The only thing you need to be aware of is that Encore can automatically choose what settings use in the transcoding process, because it knows how much data you’re trying to put on the disc. With Premiere Pro, you simply pick your settings, which means if you are trying to fit a lot of video (over appx. 90 min. for a single layer disc) on the DVD, you have to manage the settings more closely. This is known as “bit budgeting”.
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You’ll probably need to refine the auto-trace settings to get it to match your footage closely. It’s probably picking up edge pixels off the bluescreen key (a tighter/more accurate key would also help). Try upping the tolerance and threshold values a little. Usually I have to experiment- try some settings, scrub the timeline to see how the mask looks, undo, try again.
As for the scribble, try playing with the Stroke Options in the Scribble effect. You should be able to get the look you want from there. It does tend to be a little jaggy, so you might want to move the scribbled mask to it’s own layer, then apply a very slight blur or glow to smooth out the edges.
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The simplest way to fix this is to export out of Premiere Pro as an MPEG file.
The problem is that there is an AVI export setting in Premiere Pro, called “optimize still images”, which when you take the AVI into Encore causes that program to only transcode a few frames for any non-moving images (like still images and titles). You could also turn that setting off, re-export the AVI, and bring it back to Encore, but it’s just easier to have Premiere Pro make the MPEG file.
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This isn’t really possible with DVD’s because the specification is so limited. DVD’s are not as flexible as a web page or a Flash project. Buttons, for example, can’t overlap at all, which is why you can’t have the subpictures in the same place.
There are workarounds for what you want to do, though they’re not terribly elegant.
Create separate menus for each of the buttons. Create the menus/buttons so that the subpicture title only exists for the button on it’s corresponding menu. Then for each of the other buttons on the menus, set the link to auto-activate, and link to the menu for that button.
The downside to this is that there’s usually a slight delay when the button is chosen, so navigation of the menus is a little slow. Different DVD players will handle this differently. Some will be near instantaneous, others (mostly older players) could delay up to a second or even flash black in between. Encore’s preview mode will have a very noticeable delay.
As far as the click sound goes, you could attach an audio clip to each menu that starts with the click and then has 30-60 seconds of silence. Then set the loop point value for the menu to after the click. This way what will happen is when the menus are auto-activated, the click occurs, but doesn’t get played again. Again, there will be a slight delay in the player when the menu loops, but most players are much better about this than the previous problem I mentioned.
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If it’s DV, it’s interlaced.
Your transcode setting depends on a lot more than just NTSC vs. PAL. How much video do you need to fit on the DVD?
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No. You can take the masks over to Illustrator, and combine them there, then bring them back.