Tim Kurkoski
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Turn off/unplug the DV device you have connected to the Firewire port on your computer, or go to Project Settings > General, hit playback settings, and change the audio settings to play on your computer instead of the DV device.
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What you describe isn’t exactly possible in the way you described it. But there are a couple of other ways to accomplish the same thing.
First option would be to break out each chapter into it’s own timeline. At the end of each timeline, set the end action to a menu with the freeze frame as the background. Create an invisible button (a button with no visible content or highlight) that links to the next chapter’s timeline. When you’re ready to start playing, just hit enter; as it’s the only button on the menu, it will be selected automatically.
The downside to that method is that, depending on the DVD player, there may be a slight pause or even a black screen flash when switching between the menus and timelines.
The other way to do it is simply to build the freeze frame into your video. You can pause it manually when it appears, and then when the scene on stage is ready to move on, un-pause and hit the next chapter button.
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Jopie-
Encore (1.0.1 and later) numbers the timelines in the order you create them. This is the order they are built onto the DVD, and the order they’ll be played if you use the “skip” function on your remote.
Sadly, the only way to fix this is to re-create your timelines in the order you want.
(Strictly speaking, the “skip” button wasn’t specified in the DVD spec to skip between timelines, just between chapters. But many DVD players let you do it anyway.)
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David-
How long is your video? It sounds like you need to customize your bitrates, which will involve doing some “bit budgeting”. Mike Velte’s site has a rough guide to what bitrates to use to fit a given amount of video on a DVD:
https://www.video2stream.com/using_the_adobe_mpeg_encoder.htm -
This topic has come up countless times. I’d suggest you search the forum and the archives to find a complete answer.
To summarize the answer, rollovers are not directly possible in the DVD specifications. However, you can sort of fake it if you create a separate menu for the rollover state for each button, then set the buttons to auto-activate so when they are selected with the remote they link to their rollover version. The downside is that this usually causes a slight delay to when the menus are loading (how much of a delay depends on the player) and won’t work well with PC DVD player applications when the mouse is used to navigate the menus.
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It might help somewhat. This is really a problem with how Premiere manages memory than how much memory you have available.
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This is a long standing issue with Premiere. You might want to search the forum and the archives to find other responses.
Basically, Premiere is running out of memory. Resize your stills with Photoshop so they’re no bigger than they have to be- 720×480(NTSC) or 720×576(PAL). Bigger if you’re doing pans or zooms with them in Premiere, so do the math if necessary. Ex.: 200% zoom on NTSC = 1440×960.
This will cut down on the amount of memory Premiere needs to use. This is something that should really only be occurring if you’re trying to cram a lot of high-resolution images into a single timeline, but could also happen if you’re applying a lot of FX.
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No. Slowing the footage down repeats fields/frames to fill out the extra time. It will probably look slightly stuttery (but acceptable, like 24fps film stutter). Shooting actual NTSC will look smoother and more natural.
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I’ve seen audio-only features (usually old radio broadcasts or interviews) on DVD’s done a couple of different ways. One is to attach the audio to a menu, the advantage being that it’s clear to the user how to get out if they want. (Probably not as big a deal for listening to a song.) The other way is put together a simple slide show of images related to the audio, such as publicity photos.
A screen-saver type of thing sounds like a good idea, too. Especially if it’s themed to the rest of the DVD content or the band playing the song.
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Capturing then exporting back to HDV will pass through two generations. The MPEG-2 stream data from the DV tape is transcoded into the Cineform Intermediate codec after capture. When exporting back to tape, the Cineform codec is transcoded back to an MPEG-2 stream.
I haven’t looked at the options in a while, but there is a function where you can save the MPEG-2 streams (rather than Premiere deleting them after capture). These can be sent back to the camera, but I think you need another utility to do it. Steve, Tim, help me out here?