Tim Kurkoski
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Recreating the AVI file probably won’t help. Just for the sake of a test, try putting the AVI into a new Encore project and try to build it from there. Don’t worry about fancy menus or chapter points or anything. Just something simple for a test. If that works, your existing project has probably corrupted.
If it doesn’t work, Encore is probably having some sort of issue with the AVI file. Try choosing a specific transcode setting rather than automatic, and see if that gets around the problem.
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Have you installed the 1.0.1 update?
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It depends on your transcode settings. It may be transcoding the audio file to Dolby, if that’s what you have set as the default. It’s also possible to tell Encore to transcode your M2V file, but you’d have to explicitly do this. Check the Transcode Status and Transcode Settings columns in the project window to see what Encore thinks it should be doing with the files.
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Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware.
Make sure you’ve chosen the correct device from the drop-down at top. You should probably have a “Creative SoundBlaster” entry, or something similar that identifies the SoundBlaster’s ASIO drivers.
Then in the Mappings box, drag the 5.1 icons to the appropriate channels for the card. These may or may not be set up correctly already, and you may have to investigate with the card (or run some quick tests) to find out which channel is which. They’re not always clearly labeled.
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Can anyone shed some light on why one Adobe product, Audtion, can playback 5.1 projects, and another, Premiere Pro 1.5, cannot?
First off, Audition was not originally an Adobe product. Adobe bought CoolEdit Pro from Syntrillium a couple of years ago, renamed it Audition, and has changed relatively little in the program since.
Second, Audition is not an ASIO aware application. CoolEdit was born before the advent of ASIO, so it’s not even using the same drivers as Premiere Pro. The problem could be indeed with the ASIO drivers for your card.
Have you matched the channels to the appropriate speakers in Premiere Pro’s Audio Hardware prefs?
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How many DVD players did you test? Some players have certain odd behaviors, so it’s always good to test on a variety of players, as well as on a computer with a software player.
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You can’t. Premiere only captures (the first) 2 channels. You’ll either need to capture twice, changing the setting on what your XL1 outputs (if that’s even possible), or capture using another program, like Scenalyzer.
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There’s no way to fix this. As far as I know, there’s no definition in the DVD spec of what to do when the Next Chapter button is pressed, but there are no chapters left in the timeline (or Previous when you’re on the first). So it’s left up to the player to decide what to do. Set-top players tend to pick the next timeline, and apparently your software player commits the end action. Some players I’ve seen don’t do anything.
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You do it in another program. You can use something as simple as Notepad. There are instructions on the formatting to use in a subtitle script in the Encore help files.
There are a couple of different applications I’ve seen for creating subtitle scripts as well. I haven’t done anything but poke at them, but if you want a more automated interface you could try them out:
Encore Subtitles (freeware):
https://my.dreamwiz.com/maidaro/Applications/EncoreSubtitle/Index.htmUrusoft Subtitle Workshop:
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Try reducingthe M and N frames to bare miniumum. I think 2 and 8 is as low as you can go.