Tim Kurkoski
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What version of Encore are you running. Install the 1.0.1 or 1.5.1 update if you haven’t already.
Did you trim your file in the timeline? I’ve seen that cause poster frames to become offset.
How many chapters do you have? How many buttons are on each menu? Encore has some internal limits (some are actually from the DVD spec) and having too many of some things can cause problems.
Lastly, try rebuilding just this timeline and menu in a new project. If the problem doesn’t occur there, there’s probably something screwed up with the project file. Sad, but it happens.
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All of the audio for this material is already at 48K
Ah, but it’s not 32-bit float, which is what Premiere Pro is transcoding to.
My general opinion about the whole conforming situation is that while it’s a pain, especially for workflows like yours, you can’t please everyone all the time. Adobe took the “safe” route at the cost of performance. For your case, the best thing you can do is concentrate on upgrading your machine’s performance.
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No, you can’t turn it off.
Although it’s a little bit of a pain, it’s really a good thing. It allows Premiere Pro to handle audio much better than Premiere 6 and the previous versions (there were some horrible audio problems that you could run into). Maybe in the next version conforming will be a bit smoother.
Best thing you could do with this version is to set up a separate hard drive for the conformed audio scratch disk. That should speed up performance, and as long as you don’t clog up the drive, take care of your space worries.
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If what you’re asking is “how to allow the viewer to view one of the still images used in the animation, but not animated”, there’s a couple of solutions.
For both, you need to import the still image file as an asset into Encore.
1. Make a menu that shows only the still image. If you want the menu to only last a certain amount of time, uncheck “Hold Forever”, input a duration and set the end action to go back to the feature menu (or wherever else you want it to go). You can add a button for them to jump to a menu manually, make it invisible if you want (edit the menu in Photoshop and turn off the visibility switch for all the layers in the layer set, but not the layer set itself). Or just rely on the user to press the Title Menu button on the remote, and make sure to set that value in the Project properties.
2. Put the still in a timeline. Slightly easier to set up, really. I probably should have put this first.
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Encore doesn’t allow you to set up a link from within a DVD menu.
You have two options:
Include a DVD-ROM content folder with a shortcut file or HTML file that has the link.
Use Sonic eDVD to create the link in the menu.
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The DeNoiser in Premiere Pro is good for taking out things like 60Hz hum from power lines or flourescent lights, but won’t do you much good for variable noise like wind, crackling, or crowds.
Audition has an excellent noise reduction filter. Otherwise I’ve heard that the MSU DeNoiser plug-in works well.
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Premiere Pro has some basic cube-style transitions, though they’re not very fancy. I’m aware that third-party effect and plug-in packages have cube options, but I couldn’t give you any names. After Effects could do it also, of course, but you’d need to set it up manually.
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Don’t know what to say. I tested a simple Targa sequence out of AE 6.5 at 32-bit (so it had alpha), and it worked fine in Premiere Pro 1.5.
If you have Photoshop, maybe you could just run a batch convert on the files and make them into TIFF or PSD files.
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Check your playback settings (Project menu > Project Settings > General) and make sure it’s not set to play on your DV device. Or unplug your DV camera/deck/converter.
If that looks all squared, go to Edit > Preferences and make sure that your Audio Hardware settings are configured correctly.
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no matter what bitrate you select on Premiere Encore will transcode again to fit in the disc if you select to do it.(automatic)
This is not true. If the MPEG-2 file is DVD legal, Encore will not transcode it.