Timoto
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Whoops I got my logic wrong in the last message.
I still have spurious corruption in the playback of some files in Encore.
This has nothing to do with Canopus since playback of these files is perfect in Nero Showtime and other players.
The corruption appears in Encore with some short MPEG files which I use for menu transitions and now I have noticed that a couple of my video buttons are also adding the odd bit of corruption.
If I monitor my movie timelines I see that they too have some of this corruption, however when I build the DVD project the movies play fine, the transitions and video menu buttons still include the corruption.
Something tells me Encore makes some sort of proxy interpretation of footage when imported which is including all sorts of data, sometimes from completely different footage. Is encore somehow not able to manage the data because of old Nvidia drivers or is it just Encore’s problem. Could it even have something to do with physical memory?
Tim
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Thank you Jeff for such an accurate response.
First off I used Graphedit to load one of the MPEG files to find that my default decoder was not Main Concept.
So I renamed the decoder with .old extension and loaded up Encore.
The MPEG file loaded and played back fine which it had not done before. Hooray!
I checked with Graphedit again to see that Main Concept was now my default decoder.
I then proceeded to check all my other little transition files in Encore. All but 2 were playing back as expected.
I re-transcoded the 2 suspect files and when I played them back in Encore I noted that the graphic corruption was still there, but slightly different this time. I could see that some of the image was in fact footage from another file all together!
So it looks to me as if there is an error in the way that memory is being used by Canopus, or that the gfx drivers are too old to support the compatibility, otherwise how could this data end up in my Mpeg file?
Unfortunately I use a laptop since I edit my work on the move, which is fine except that when it comes to getting updated graphics drivers there is an extra complication. I have an “Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 Go” chipset which Nvidia do not support completely in their regular updates. I have to go to my computer’s manufacturer. who it seems, can not be bothered to update the drivers with the correct support for the screen resolution of my laptop accordingly. The last time they
did update them was about 2 years ago!Have you had any experience in this symptom too?
Tim
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Hello Jeff
Actually I am already employing the method of linking to my transition assets from the menu buttons just as you described. I’m not using timelines to do this.
So the question remains:
1. Why does Encore transcode a menu button transition asset that is labeled as “Don’t Trancode”?
2. Why do these shorter MPEG files seem to display incorectly after they are imported and played back in Encore?
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Hi Jeff
I’m using Caopus Procoder 2.0
I use a standard setting to ensure DVD compatibility. So far I have seen that all my trancodes for movies, video backgrounds work fine and are recognised by Encore as such since it automatically sets the transcode setting to “Don’t Transcode” when I import the assets.
The main difference I see is that all these transition sequences are short such as 1 to 4 seconds long.
Sometimes, but not always, when I actually build the DVD these transition sequences do actually render out correctly. In most cases however they don’t.
I think that there are 2 bugs
1. Encore has problems with very short MPEG2 sequences.
2. Even though Encore lists the assets as “Don’t Trancode” is still transcodes them because they have been used in the project as Transitions between menus.