Tim Kurkoski
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This can’t be done with a single menu. You can’t define separate loop points for the audio and the video in the menu.
What you can do, though, is create two menus. One that has the intro, and another that doesn’t. Set the first one not to loop, and it’s end action to go to the second menu, which does loop (but obviously without a loop point).
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This could be a problem with your DVD player (it’s only outputting 2 channels) or with the Nuendo encoder.
Are you playing the disc on a set-top player or on a computer? Try both, and try multiple players (set-top or software). If it’s a software player, it could be a limitation of the player (ie, the publisher of the player software wants you to pay more) or your sound card (does it have 5.1 channel capability?). If it’s a set-top player, make sure you’ve got it connected properly to a 5.1 channel decoder.
As for the Nuendo possibility, I can only suggest using another program to check the file, but I don’t have any programs to suggest. Maybe look at VideoHelp.com for an AC3 file utility?
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Are you saying you created a DV-AVI file with 5.1 audio? That’s not Dolby, that’s embedded 6-channel PCM audio.
In any case, Encore only accepts 6-channel audio as individual AC3 files or muxed with an MPEG-2 file. Use the encoder included with Premiere Pro (it’s a trial version only, limited to 3 exports before you have to pay), or export the audio as a 6-channel WAV file and use another program to encode it to AC3.
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This question is really “how do you make ANYTHING stay in the same place in an image?”
For that, the best thing to do is use the Motion Tracker in AE Pro. If you don’t have the Pro version, you can simply keyframe the motion, but it’s a lot more work. It doesn’t matter if you use Vector Paint or a mask, just ask long as it’s on it’s own layer this works fine.
To simplify the keyframing, you can use the binary search method. Set keyframes at the beginning and end. Then set a keyframe in the middle. Then set keyframes in the middle of each of the current keyframes. Then set keyframes in the middle of each of those keyframes. Repeat this process until the motion matches when you preview it. You may not have to set keyframes at every interval, so preview often, and add keyframes where it needs to be touched up.
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You can upgrade, Malcolm. Remember that “7.0” is actually “Pro 1.0” (there’s no such thing as “Pro 7.0”), so going up to 1.5 is a no-brainer.
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Can you be more specific about what you are trying to do? There are several ways to create transparency in Photoshop- the eraser tool, masks, selections, alpha channels. And there are probably about as many different tutorials available on the Internet. Have you searched Google for “photoshop tutorial cut out transparency”? (That’s the first search string I would try.)
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This is only going to be of limited help, but I’ll share what I know.
When capturing from DV sources, Premiere Pro can only capture a single stereo pair, as you’ve experienced. It’s a limitation in the program (which I have been sending e-mails and feature requests to Adobe for years about).
But this Cineform module doesn’t appear to be capturing from DV, it’s capturing from another source. Premiere Pro doesn’t have any built-in way to capture from HD-SDI, so how the audio gets captured is entirely dependent on what capture software is being used. And as far as I can tell, it’s the Cineform module, and in their answer the audio capture wasn’t explained.
The reply they gave you appeared to a response to “How do I handle audio in the timeline?” as opposed to “How is the audio captured, and how many files are created?” I think that’s really the big question here.
Regardless, Premiere Pro can break multichannel audio files into individual mono clips if you need. Just select the file in the Project window, choose Clip > Audio Options > Breakout to Mono Clips. Not sure how that will work with embedded audio, but at the worst you’ll just have to generate a separate audio file.
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This sounds like there’s something wrong with the PSD. If you try another file (such as the samples in the Photoshop application folder), what happens?
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Audition has a great noise reduction filter. If you haven’t posted on the CreativeCow Audition forum yet, head on over there.
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Yes and no. Encore doesn’t have a way to define what happens when you press the Menu button if you’re already on a menu. (I’m not even sure if that’s allowed by the DVD spec or not. Different DVD players may behave differently in this regard. You should test.)
However, there are two menu buttons on DVD remotes- Main Menu and Title Menu. They’re often labeled differently depending on the manufacturer or the player. The difference is that the Title Menu is a global setting and applies to all timelines and menus, so your users can use that. You may have to give them instructions, though.
You may be better off using invisible buttons that auto-activate, and put instructions on the disc for how to operate. “Press Enter to return to the menu, press right to advance to the next video, press left to go to the previous video.” Or something like that.