Tim Kurkoski
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No, but if you export your project to a DVD folder or image file, you can use a different application to burn to a different drive. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it, but you could do it.
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Jack- What is it exactly that you want to accomplish?
Encore can take WAV files from either Premiere (any version) or Audition and encoded them appropriately for a DVD. It can encode them as PCM, MPEG-2, or Dolby. Stereo only; if you want surround you need a separate encoder.
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The answer is mostly no, with a little bit of yes.
Rollover buttons like this, as you would see on a web page, aren’t really possible within the DVD spec. If something is going to animate, it has to be a part of the menu’s motion background.
What you can do, however, is create a different menu for each button, animated appropriately. Then set all of the buttons other than the one that’s animating to auto-activate with a link to their menu. That way when the user selects it, the menu for that button will appear. There’s typically a slight pause when the menu loads, but it’s the best you can get.
This won’t work when playing the DVD in a computer and navigating with the mouse. The auto-activate functionality doesn’t work when using a mouse (it would be quite annoying if it did).
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NTSC uses 720×480 at 0.9 pixel aspect ratio. If you have Photoshop CS or CS2, you can work in 0.9 PAR natively. If not, use 720×534 (534 x 0.9 = 480).
Encore can show you safe margins by clicking on the button at the bottom of the menu editor window. Photoshop CS/CS2 also has preset document sizes for NTSC that include safe margin guides at 10% and 20%.
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Agreed. I’ve been playing with it a little lately. While it’s a limited version compared to the full SteadyMove Pro, the default settings always seem to work fine.
BTW, you need to install the plug-in from the Premiere Pro 1.5 CD.
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MPEG-2, ideally. AVI files are your second best route, preferably with DV or another common codec.
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There is a setting in Premiere Pro that controls this.
Choose Project > Project Settings > General, click on Playback Settings. Choose “Play audio on audio hardware”, then click OK.
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How are you exporting your video from Premiere Pro? My guess is that you’re exporting as AVI, and the problem is occurring when Encore transcodes it into MPEG-2 before the burn. This could likely be solved by changing your transcoding settings, but you could also make it simpler by exporting your video from Premiere Pro as MPEG-2.
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Don’t use QT reference files. Encore has only limited capability with QT files. You’re getting an error about the frame rate because Encore is having some sort of a problem with the file, but doesn’t know exactly how to describe it, and frame rate is the closest thing it knows how to complain about.
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1. The region setting is in the project settings. (Button is under the Disc tab.)
2. No. DVD spec requires that one button in a menu be selected at all times. You can make a “hidden” button to start out with. A button that has no visible layers or subpicture highlights, no link, and using manual button routing you can make it so that the user can’t get back to the button.
3. No. You’ll need to re-encode your video assets as NTSC, and start a new NTSC project. You can borrow the same menus from your PAL project (they’re inside the project folder), but they’ll need some slight alteration to match NTSC frame size and all the links and timelines will need to be recreated.