Importing Boris Titles into Encore

I did all of my subtitles and slates for my film using Boris Title 3D and am now trying to make a DVD. I am wondering if anyone knows how to import Boris titles into Encore or if it is possible. Otherwise I might have to redo all of my titles!!!!!
Thanks!

Yeah, umm, might want to have investigated that before embarking on the project.
Neither of those are Apple products so you will want to talk to Boris and to Adobe. I hear there is a decent boris forum on the cow, whatever that is, and Adobe has excellent user forums.
You will most likely have to render all of your Boris items as movies and bring them in as assets.
bogiesan

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CalebMonroe wrote:
neil wilkes wrote:
the_wine_snob wrote:
To Encode the DD 5.1 SS AC3, what program did you use, perhaps the SurCode plug-in for PrPro?
What is the Bit-Rate of the DD 5.1 SS AC3?
What is the brand of the blank media?
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Most likely he used Apple's Compressor, Bill - the system specs state FCP7 is being used.
Bitrate is a valid question though.....this should be no higher than 640kbps (and IMHO certainly no lower - DD sucks at the best of times)
Sorry for the long reply back guys. We had the audio work for this project outsourced so I had to await details to your questions. The bitrate is 457.67 kbps so the bit rate shouldn't be causing the issue. The audio was completely pre mixed in Pro Tools and they just sent us a ready to use .ac3 file. Hope this helps!
CAleb
Hey Caleb.
Thanks for the details -and that is probably your problem.
457.67kbps is nothing like DVD-Video compliant, and almost certainly not BluRay compliant either.
For BluRay, you should be using 448 or preferably 640kbps.
DVD uses either 448 or 384kbps Dolby Digital, and the figure you are giving is extremely odd, looking almost like a VBR encoding which DD should never, ever be. Using 384 gives you unidirectional content above 10kHz (IE, mono) and 448 gets it all the way up to around 14 or 15kHz before it goes unidirectional. In all frankness, there is no good reason at all to use Dolby Digital as it sucks - badly - and all BluRay players are required to decode at the very least DTS Core Audio (1536kbps) which is fully discrete all the way to 20kHz.
I think whoever you outsourced this to got the DD encoding wrong - simples!

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