HD in Encore CS4

I have followed Jeff's HD2SD tutorial and have had the best results buring raw footage (720p) to SDS DVD. Still, I can't believe there is such a drop off in quality. As a test I imported about 1 hour (8 clips) directly into Encore CS4 from my hard drive and burned a SD DVD. I couldn't believe it actually worked. The footage was awesome!! Almost HD quality. I thought that was it!! However, 6 tries since have resulted in error "encode failed". Anyone have any ideas why I was able to do this once but not again?
Thanks, Kevin
[email protected]

50 min to 1:20 max. I've also experimented with 5 min clips and "encode failure". Encore seems to reduce the size of the footage without a problem. After I put the blank in and go to build it says 3 /3.5 gigs of 4.7g disc it never tells me it's over disc capacity and like I said it worked great, once!!

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Disc image file exported from Encore CS4 won't work

Hello,
I have a problem concerning the export of a disc image file in Encore CS4. I recently upgraded to CS4 and wanted to continue my project which I started editing with CS3. While working with CS3 I already did image files from this project for burning and testing the DVD. Back then it worked with no problems.
However, since using the CS4 version Encore does the image without any problem, but I can't use the image file in any way afterwards. I mounted it with Daemon Tools as I did before, but the DVD won't play in any software DVD player I have installed (Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime) nor can I access the file structure over a file manager. Nevertheless NeroInfoTool and ImgBurn say there is a DVD in the virtual drive. Then I exported the DVD project into a folder and now I can see the files in the file manger but again no player will play it.
Has anyone experienced this before and is able to help? It would be very appreciated since I don't want to downgrade back to CS3 :-)
It's Encore CS4, Version 4.0.1.048 on a 2,8 GHz HT CPU, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 6800 UT, lots of HDD space, XP + SP3.
Thank you,
Chris...

Hey,
thank you both. As I said no player accepts the project exported to a folder. It doesn't matter if I point the player to the video_ts.ifo or just the folder - it won't play. As a consequence I re-installed Encore CS3 in which exporting worked fine and guess what - the exported image and folder output doesn't work either. Since it worked before in CS3 it comes down to the conclusion that either I did some editing to the project that screwed the project or Encore CS4 did. Checking for mistakes in the project and previewing in inside CS4 everything seems fine. So might it be CS4 that ****** up the project file??? I mean it's full of strange bugs so it could easily be that. I even updated my Daemon Tools yesterday and it won't make a difference.
Or could it be something else I haven't considered yet? Any ideas? I just don't want to build the whole project again which might not even work if it's some other error. This is a desperate call for help
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"File not found" error when I try to render an animated menu (on mac) Encore CS4

I'm making a dvd with at least 2 animated menus. It means that I have a 1 movie in the background of each menu. Over my background, I have 3 thumbnail buttons which contain a small piece of movie animated movie too. When I try to to view my menus, in order to see the animation in the background and in the thumbnails I need to render the animation through File - Render - Motion menus.
The problem is that it works for the first menu but then when I continue my navigation to the second menu that has animation in background and thumbnails too, if I choose Render Motion menus,after 3/4 of the rendering it says "file not found" even if all the files are well in place in their folders.
Does anyone would have an idea of how to resolve this stupid problem that prevents me to burn my project on a DVD since the same errors will appear during the burning process (I use a mac with Encore CS4). Is it a bug? What are the solutions? Thanks for answering.
Steven.

SteveDVD,
The use of the .WMV was because that was part of the Library .EM template. I would not anticipate problems with other formats, so long as they are supported and the same for all of your Menus in the Project.
If you have done several Motion Menu Renderings, you might want to clear Encore's Media Cache, just in case it is still referencing previous Render files.
And yes, the re-Importation should yield the same result as Linking/re-Linking.
Unfortunately, I do not have CS4, so I can't test this for you. There do seem to be a few real Bugs in the various CS4 programs, and maybe this is one?
That "File Not Found" rings a bell in my feeble brain. Seems that there was a post on that, but I do not remember it being related to Motion Menus. Maybe search will yield something of use.
Good luck,
Hunt

Encore CS4 asset import creates black images

Running Encore CS4 on Win 7 32-bit; 4GB RAM, Radeon 7750 graphics
If I do an Import of assets, namely a bunch of standard, out of camera jpegs, about 2.5-4MB in size, then CS4 imports them but anywhere from 10-100% of them will just be black images.
Only solution I've found is to clear out the bad ones, save, close project, re-open project, re-import. Sometimes you can only import them one at a time without going through a close/open project step. Just clearing the image and trying to re-import without closing the project never works.
Worse - after re-opneing the project, sometimes some of the 'good' images have gone black and have to be re-imported.
Never had this problem with Encore 2.0.
Not having this problem with Encore CS3, but a CS3 project opened in CS4 also displays a bunch of black images which were OK in CS3.
So 2 questions
- anybody seen CS4 being so stupid as this? and have a real fix? (as it took me 4 hours to add 60 images yesterday, which is ridiculous)
- given CS3 seems to work (and opens projects much faster), is ther any downside to staying on CS3?

The links below are about editing, not authoring, but may help
Pictures that are "overly" large may cause video editing problems
Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798
-HiRes Pictures to DVD http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1187937?tstart=0
-PPro Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967

Windows 8 Encore CS4 Blu-ray BSOD

I'm getting a BSOD in Encore CS4 when I try to build a blu-ray project. I have an HP laptop with an LG USB blu-ray burner. When I click build, even to build just an image, and then change from "DVD" to "Blu-Ray", there is a hang then a BSOD. My crashdump indicates that pxhlpa64.sys is the culprit.
This seems to be relevant, BUT the solution is to upgrade CS6 to new patch:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4672190
I'm up-to-date in CS4, so that doesn't help. However, it sounds related and I'm hoping that my copy of CS4 Production Premium is still supported.
My version of pxhlpa64.sys is 3.0.78.0. WU can't find any updates as far as I can tell. I have not installed any drivers for my LG BE12LU38 Super Multi Blue, but it seems to be recognized and there are no updates via WU.
Here is my crashdump analysis:
0: kd> !analyze -v
* Bugcheck Analysis *
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (133)
The DPC watchdog detected a prolonged run time at an IRQL of DISPATCH_LEVEL
or above.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000000, A single DPC or ISR exceeded its time allotment. The offending
component can usually be identified with a stack trace.
Arg2: 0000000000000281, The DPC time count (in ticks).
Arg3: 0000000000000280, The DPC time allotment (in ticks).
Arg4: 0000000000000000
Debugging Details:
DPC_TIMEOUT_TYPE: SINGLE_DPC_TIMEOUT_EXCEEDED
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WIN8_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x133
PROCESS_NAME: System
CURRENT_IRQL: d
TAG_NOT_DEFINED_c000000f: FFFFF80393BA8FB0
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff80393e48853 to fffff80393cee740
STACK_TEXT:
fffff803`93ba2128 fffff803`93e48853 : 00000000`00000133 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000281 00000000`00000280 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff803`93ba2130 fffff803`93d19e51 : 0000034b`321b0754 fffff803`93f6a180 fffff803`93ba2290 fffff780`00000320 : nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+0x13c4c
fffff803`93ba21b0 fffff803`93c2ae94 : ffffffff`ffd1dc08 fffff803`93c54502 fffff880`012a0740 fffff880`0318e9c0 : nt!KeUpdateRunTime+0x51
fffff803`93ba21e0 fffff803`93ce7b2e : fffff803`93ba2290 00000000`279cdae1 fffff803`93c54580 fffff880`012a0740 : hal!HalpTimerClockInterrupt+0x50
fffff803`93ba2210 fffff803`93cde643 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiInterruptDispatchLBControl+0x1ce
fffff803`93ba23a0 fffff803`93d1b025 : 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxWaitForSpinLockAndAcquire+0x23
fffff803`93ba23d0 fffff880`01298644 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff6fd`4008aa48 fffff6fb`7ea00450 : nt!KeAcquireSpinLockRaiseToDpc+0x35
fffff803`93ba2400 fffff880`01298c1d : fffffa80`0d3855c0 fffff803`93ba2559 00000000`00000006 00000000`00000005 : PxHlpa64+0x2644
fffff803`93ba2470 fffff803`93d26406 : 00000000`00000001 fffff880`06da1c00 fffffa80`10ca75b0 ffff0083`95c9c410 : PxHlpa64+0x2c1d
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fffff803`93ba25d0 fffff880`00a29f30 : 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0d494400 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0d494400 : iaStorV!ScsiPortCompleteSrb+0x31a
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fffff803`93ba2980 fffff803`93d15fd8 : 00000028`00000002 00000345`2a93dd9e fffffa80`0d66e010 fffff803`93ba2a00 : iaStorV!SpRequestCompleteDpc+0x45
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fffff803`93ba2af0 fffff803`93d1a4ba : fffff803`93f6a180 fffff803`93f6a180 00000000`00183de0 fffff803`93fc4880 : nt!KiRetireDpcList+0xd0
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STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
PxHlpa64+2644
fffff880`01298644 48b90800000080f7ffff mov rcx,0FFFFF78000000008h
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 7
SYMBOL_NAME: PxHlpa64+2644
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: PxHlpa64
IMAGE_NAME: PxHlpa64.sys
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 475dd06d
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x133_DPC_PxHlpa64+2644
BUCKET_ID: 0x133_DPC_PxHlpa64+2644
Followup: MachineOwner

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More on Encore and Roxio http://forums.adobe.com/thread/528582 or direct to
http://kb.roxio.com/search.aspx?URL=/content/kb/General%20Information/000070GN&PARAMS
Right click the program icon and select Run as Administrator, which is NOT the same thing as running the computer with the Administrator account, and which fixes several "odd" problems... To create a two layer DVD (or a BluRay?), you MUST have Encore set to use the Run as Administrator option
Run as Administrator http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395
Also, for CS4, right click the program icon and see if Win8 has the same WinXP compatibility mode that is available in Win7
As far as support outside of this user to user group... I seriously doubt that Adobe will provide any help for a program that is 3 versions old, and which was written before Win8 was more than a Microsoft dream

Encore CS4 Missing Frames/Stops Starts and Blue Screen Crashes During Playback

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Try to remember this:
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Premiere and Encore CS4 crashes and issues on Toshiba Laptop

I have a Toshiba Qosmino Laptop, 4 GB ram, Windows XP Sev pac 3, Nvida Gforce 7300 video. new 7500 RPM Hard drive
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Premiere will start some times and sometimes not. I've tried a new projects, importing a CS3 project seems to make no difference. Takes approx 2-3 minuites to load. Click on a imported video clip or timeline and crash.
Encore crashes "EVERYTIME"... tried to import from Premiere into Encore.. when the timeline is clicked in Encore it crashes everytime. Tried a new project in Encore same problem. Started Encore alone and same problem... first click and crash.
I'm not getting a blue screen just the Adobe crash report screen asking me to send a report... have done that many times.
Things that I have tried:
Had CS3 (BTY it ran fine)
Uninstalled CS3 and uninstalled CS4. Reinstalled CS4 same problems.
Defrag hard drive....
Reinstall CS4
Updated video drivers to latest version
Reloaded older video drivers
Did MSCONFIG and stropped all unneeded processes
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Any help is appreciated!!

Sounds like a problematic video driver or codec issue. You need to update all your drivers and try again. Also get rid of any unnecessary codecs. Try opening files in various formats and see if the same happens. Also you should search the KnowledgeBase, it contains a lot of information about this kind of problem.
If all fails, call Adobe Tech Support...

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RAM: 2 GB DDR
Sound: Creative Audigy

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There have been issues with the updated version not playing nice with certain NVidia cards.

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Hi,
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[..\..\src\AMEPresetProber.cpp - 258]
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Thanks in advance for your input.
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Hi Stan,
Thanks for responding.
Truth be told, I got so focused on the Encore problem, it didn't occur to me to see whether Media Encoder was still functioning properly on my machine.
At any rate, I did byte the bullet, and re-install Encore, and the problem in question went away. Interestingly enough, when you opt to re-install Encore, CS4 automatically re-installs Media Encoder as well, so I guess the two programs are pretty tightly joined at the hip. Not surprising, perhaps, since I suspect that Encore is in some ways just a special case of Media Encoder, at least as far as the transcoding is concerned.
Of course, once I got Encore up and running, I tried to bring over a very, very small sequence from Premiere Pro and build it, and Encore crashed again (In PproHeadless.exe call to ImageRender.dll). Frustrating, since as a newbie all I'm trying to do is understand how the sequence settings I'm using in Premiere translate into final DVD output. The project I am working on involves a mixture of still images and short video clips culled from many sources in many formats, and my first renders in Premiere yielded lots of letterboxing (I'm learning the hard way about pixel aspect ratios and the like). As such, I figured before I built too many sequeneces, I should find a set of settings and work procedures that yield good results.
I used dynamic linking to bring over my sequence from Premiere, and I'm thinking that perhaps having both Encore and Premiere open at the same time requires too many resources on my limited system. Time to go figure out other options for moving sequences from Premiere over to Encore to see if that is in fact the issue.
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Under the Windows 7 Ultra OS, when I loaded Premiere Pro CS4, I received the following error message and thereafter when I tried to write a DVD with Encore CS4 I received this error message: PrimoBurnerSDK -unkown error.
I know the Burner is working properly because it is able to burn DVDs with Adobe Premiere Elements 9.
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Adobe Device Central CS4
Error:
Error 2.
Adobe Dynamiclink Support
Error:
Error 2.
Adobe Dynamiclink Support
Error:
Error 2.
Adobe Encore CS4
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Error 2.
Adobe Encore CS4 Codecs
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Adobe Encore CS4 LangPack (en_US)
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Adobe Extension Manager CS4
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Adobe Media Encoder CS4
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Adobe Media Encoder CS4 Additional Exporter
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Adobe Media Encoder CS4 Dolby
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Adobe Media Encoder CS4 Exporter
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Adobe OnLocation CS4
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Adobe Output Module
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Error 2.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
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Error 2.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 LangPack (en_US)
Error:
Error 2.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Third Party Content
Error:
Error 2.
LangPack (English) for DeviceCentral
Error:
Error 2.
Photoshop Camera Raw
Error:
Error 2.

As a test, tell Encore to create an ISO on your hard drive, then use the free http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download to write to disc
If that works, the problem is some other software that is "hijacking" your burner so Encore can't properly "talk" to it to burn

Premiere CS4 to Encore CS4 Export Quality Problems

I recently purchased a non-linear editing machine with an RTX2 Matrox Card and CS4 Professional. After six or seven projects, I finally noticed that all my imported .avi files exported through Adobe Media Encoder and burned through Encore CS4 are not as crisp, sharp, or look like the original high quality SD footage after the DVD is burned like it always used to look in CS2. ( jumped from CS2 to CS4)
These DVDs were of plays, football, and basketball games. It seems that when the camera shoots a close up, the video looks fine but after you shoot from a distance, there is a considerable difference in the footage. ( alomost blurry) I just caught this and nobody has complained but I watched one of my older DVDs I produced with CS2 and it had no quality loss whatsoever. There is a night and day difference
For the sequences, I am using Matrox SD, NTSC, Standard, 720 x 486 and capturing with firewire through the Matrox card. The raw footage is beautiful. The Video Preview Option is NTSC Standard and the Codec is NTSC Matrox DV/DV Cam.
I can playback a timeline from the Matrox card and burn directly to a DVD burner and the footage is perfect, but when I export, I have chosen Microsoft .avi file, Matrox DV/DV Cam/ MPEG2, and MPEG2DVD.
I have even changed the sequences codec to Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame and tried exporting using that out of Adobe Media Encoder and am getting the same results.
None of my customers have complained yet, but I definitely do not want to continue producing almost blurry DVDs.
I am using Adobe Premiere CS4 Version 4.1.0 and Encore CS4 Version 4.0.1.048 and Matrox Version 4.1.0.23
Can this problem be related to and eliminated by updating my CS4 Production Suite and my Matrox Software.
I was wondering if anyone had experienced this same issue and what solution they came up with or if anyone knew if the updates would correct this important issue. I just filmed a lengthy play that I have to author through Encore CS4 and I cannot release any more of my productions until this problem is solved. This is a big dollar production and I need some assistance on this matter as soon as possible. Thanks Jimi White

Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I just purchased my non-linear with CS4 Production Suite and the Matrox RTX2. I have several projects that I am working on right now and I was advised by Adobe, Matrox, and my non-linear vendor, 1 Beyond, to finish those projects before performing updates.
I also found out that If I export using the MPEG2 8Mbps, it cleared up the video dramatically. We had to go through a number of export presets in order to find out what worked best in Encore. I am going to try to finish the project now and will advise on the results.
This is a basketball highlight DVD and that's when I noticed the problem. My other productions were photos to music, and non sporting events and I didn't notice any problems with those DVDs ( they actually looked decent. Worst part about it was, I finished the project once and burned 18 DVDs, and then reviewed one of them and found the problem. I have to start over and just eat the DVDs printed and all.
Thanks again, it was nice of you to get back to me.
Jimi

Change Background in Menu Creation Encore CS4 and Photoshop

I am creating a menu using Encore and Photoshop. I Used the Encore Libray to create a blank background and also created a series of buttons adusting them in Photoshop CS4. However, when I try to change the background with a new jpg or psd file I open the picture in Photoshop but not as the new background layer I am trying to achieve. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

Dear Bill,
Thank you for your prompt reply. However, I don't think I am explaining my problem correctly so if you have the patience I am sending you this little "Jing" movie which will show you my problem
http://www.screencast.com/t/YWI5MDcw
Regards
Stanley
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:39:20 -0600
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Subject: Change Background in Menu Creation Encore CS4 and Photoshop
There should be no problem when adding the image of your choice, with Edit in Photoshop.
When you choose Edit in Photoshop, several things happen:
1.) a TMP PSD for that Menu is created.
2.) links are created between En and PS
3.) PS is launched, and that TMP PSD is then Opened in PS.
When one has edited that TMP PSD in PS, they must do a Save to allow those links back to En*.
If you are doing a Save_As, or Save_As_a_Copy, those links will NOT be followed, and the Menu will NOT update in En.
Good luck,
Hunt
I have encountered some instances, where a single Save does not follow those links. With experimentation, I have found that 3 Saves (Ctrl+S) will force those links to be followed, and the Menu updated in En. Not sure why this happens sometimes, but 3 seems to be the "magic number," at least for me.
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45.90 GB on your hard drive and 1.6 GB on your hard drive add up to 47.60 GB.
In computer GB, (47.60 x 2^30) that's over 51 billion bytes. Sony and other blank media manufacturers report the capacity of their blank discs in normal GB (50 x 10^9), or 50 billion bytes.
Your project is too big to fit on the blank media that you have.

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Have crashed about 10 times (in one hour) doing simple things like, assigning folders, playing video, adding menus. Can anyone say maintenance release???
Here's a question...
WHY CAN'T I SEE THE VIDEO I HAVE ASSIGNED TO A MENU WHEN I SIMULATE?
This was working in CS3 now it's NOT in CS4. Tried on two different machines, one with ATI card an the other with nVidia!
ADOBE... are you there???

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
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Pop-up menus I am glad to report actually work! We haven't figured out how to create motion pop-up menus yet but I suspect this is not available yet in Encore.
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What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
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Regards,
Darren

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Hi
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I am missing something to solve this issue.
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Hi Jeff,
I just checked:
There is no override on the montage

HD in Encore CS4

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