Tim Kurkoski
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Although I’ve never noticed that before, I do see what you mean (duration in the Properties window for the timeline is longer than the assets). I highly doubt it’s going to be a problem, though. The logical explanation may be related to MPEG GOP (group of picture) segment size. For some reason Encore might be deciding that the last GOP in your video asset isn’t long enough, and is tacking on some extra frames to complete the GOP, which is usually 15-18 frames. That’s just a theory, of course. Correct or not, there shouldn’t be any issues with audio sync because of it.
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The region setting is not going to be a big issue, but NTSC is. You need to start a new project using NTSC settings. You can then import your assets and set them to transcode using an NTSC setting. (Note- I’ve never tried this with Encore. In theory it should work fine, but you should run a test. If there are problems, simply re-export your original assets from your NLE using NTSC settings there.)
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Nope. Poster frames (other than the frame the chapter point is on) have to be set in Encore.
Sounds like a good feature request, though.
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If your file has both video and audio, the excess bitrate is for the audio. The transcode presets only refer to the video bitrates, but the total bitrate is what is reported in the Project window. Look deeper into the settings for the given preset, and you’ll find the audio bitrate- likely it’s 192kbps (or appx. 0.2Mbps).
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If the beeps are audible, there’s another thought that occurred to me. If the museum equipment is set up properly, you could make the beeps very high or (probably better) very low, therefore minimizing the impact of the beep on the user experience. In essence, make the beep as far beyond the range of human hearing as you can. Important note for this- the audio would have to stay as PCM info on the DVD. Dolby is a perceptual encoding scheme, meaning it would throw out any audio that’s not within the range of human hearing.
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This is possible, but not altogether straightforward. Also, I’ve had to make a few assumptions, as there’s a lot of missing info about the setup.
First, I’m assuming that your “beep” tracks aren’t meant to be audible, and are mono WAV files. Second, I’m assuming that you’re planning to output the “beep” tracks on a distinct audio channel from the DVD, such as rear left/right of a surround mix. This is going to require the DVD player to have outputs for those channels, or that the DVD player is hooked up to a receiver/controller device that will separate those channels.
When you start in Premiere Pro, create a new sequence, and set it to have a 5.1 channel master audio track, and at least two mono tracks. Drop your mono WAV files into the mono tracks on the timeline (you could also just drag them into the empty space and Premiere will create new tracks for them). In the audio mixer window, pan the “beep” tracks to the left/right rear channels.
The tricky part is exporting it out. When Premiere Pro burns a DVD, it does stereo only, so you’re going to have to author the DVD with another application (I’m guessing this was your plan anyway). So when you export the audio from Premiere Pro, you can make a 5.1 channel WAV file. If your DVD authoring application can convert this to a DVD-supported surround file (ie, Dolby), then you’re done. If you have Adobe Encore (or a similar program without the ability to convert a 5.1 WAV to AC3), however, you’ll need to export as an AC3 file from Premiere Pro. Premiere comes with the Minnetonka Dolby plug-in, but it’s a demo and you only get 3 free exports before it makes you pay.
You could export your project as an MPEG file but I’m pretty sure Premiere Pro will downmix it to stereo. MPEG audio is not part of the NTSC DVD spec anyway (I’m only assuming you’re in NA), so support for it on any given DVD player may be spotty.
From what I’ve understood, I think this workflow will get you where you want to go. But it’s possible I’ve made a bad assumption, or haven’t read what you need correctly.
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You can’t make the audio and video loop separately, the DVD spec locks them together (actually, I’ve seen discs that get around this, but they use complicated scripting and haven’t been compatible with all players).
For what you want to do, you should build your motion menu in After Effects (could also be done in Premiere). Bring in the menu background PSD file and your video clip. Shrink the clip down to the appropriate size and duplicate it to make 8 copies. Reposition them as necessary, and shift them in time to match the chapter points. Make the length of the comp/timeline 5 minutes (the length of your song). Export to an AVI or MPEG file, the less compression the better.
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I haven’t had this problem myself, but have seen reports like this in various forums for Premiere and Photoshop and other applications.
The problem usually comes down to the fact that the msvcrt.dll (or msvcrt70, or msvcrt71, etc.) file is located in the WindowsSystem32 directory and some applications have a bad habit of copying their own version of the file in there. Premiere Pro has it’s customized version located in it’s own root directory (Adobe is smart enough not to overwrite system files), but if the DLL is already loaded into system memory, it’s probably not trying to launch it. Instead it ends up trying to use the actively loaded version, and crashes when it encounters a non-MS alteration.
Best bet is for you to get a clean copy of the Microsoft version of the file, from your i386 folder or Windows install disk, and copy it back in to the System32 directory.
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What version of Encore do you have?
Make sure you have the Timeline window active when you try to choose from the Timeline menu.
Also, by default your timeline should already have an audio track in it, so you can just drag your audio file down into it.
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Nope. Premiere doesn’t export QT reference files. Not 6.5, not Pro.