M2V video re-transcoding in Encore

Sorry to be posting alot, but I could not find any matches on this issue. I am encoding out of premiere with AME to M2V with Main Concept of course. When I import the asset into Encore it wants to transcode it and I do not get the option of turning it off. Also, even though I make adjustments to the settings, it makes my origianl, supposedly DVD compliant file, larger. This is now taking twice as long to produce a DVD for testing.
Thanks to all your help on my other recent issues!

Hehe, I knew that was coming. I am using Adobe Media Encoder from Premiere, MPEG2-DVD, and my settings are the default min, 1.5 and I set the target to 4 and the max to 6.5-7 usually. It makes my movie about 2.4GB. The extension is M2V and Encore has no "problem" with importing it, however it wants to re-encode it. To be honest, I dont have enough disk space to render out uncompressed, and I dont want to render to DV AVI and compress it before I encode it. I do have the stand alone Main Concept encoder.

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DVD-spec m2v needs no transcode in 1.5 but does in 2.0??

I have a large amount of m2v files that work flawlessly in encore DVD 1.5 with no transcoding needed ("don't transcode") and they are burned fine and work flawlessly.
However, in Encore DVD 2.0, I am forced to transcode the files. The "don't transcode" button is grayed out. This makes NO sense because they are DVD spec. Even with a fresh project file made with 2.0 they still refuse to build the DVD without transcoding the video. I have neither the time or the desire for quality loss to re-transcode every single mpeg2 video file.

This is ridiculous!!!
Is there no definate setting to encode mpegs and bring them in with transcoding "for the second time" in Encore?! It's nuts!!! I just spent hundreds of pounds buying Encore 2 after having used 1.5 extensively. I no longer have access to 1.5, and I'm using Adobe 6.5 with the Canopus Soft MPEG Encoder to export my video. Unfortunatly for me, this means I'm due to loose £1000 of business this week! Unless I can find a way to export MPEGs from Premiere. Exporting to an AVI, and then transcoding in Encore is not an option with the volume of projects I get. I need to be able to encode things once and move on. Am I really going to have to send Encore 2 back and buy something else? I specifically wanted the menu building functions that integrate with Photoshop, which save me many hours.
Someone please help, I am SOOOO dissappointed!
Allistair

Poor DVD Video Quality - Transcoding pain

Hello,
I am working on a video project with the NTSC DVD as the deliverable. The project is realtively simple. It contains one mpeg2 video file, an adio track and a few menues. It is all ok except for the horrible DVD quality I am getting from Encore SC4. The original mpeg2 video quality is very good. This mpeg2 video file was generated using the Proshow Producer program with NTSC DVD setting as output. Here is what mediainfo has to say about this file:
General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\Pozegnanie Melanii Grobelnej_DVD.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.08 GiB
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 6 518 Kbps
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=12
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 164 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.595
Stream size                              : 1.97 GiB (95%)
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 73.4 MiB (3%)
My first problem is why Encore insists on transcoding the video. I do not see any reason why not to use the video as is. The "Do not transcode" option is not available. Perhaps I have some settings in the project that may be incompatible with the DVD video but I realy do not know what they could be. Please help if you think you know what it could be.
With automatic transcoding the resulting video quality is plain horrible. I keep blinking my eyes because everything is so badly out of focus. I keep trying to specify the transcoding quality to as high as Encore allows me but the resulting video stays at very poor quality. I am not very expierence with the transcoding function of Encore but what I am getting "out of the box" is garbage so I hope you, more expierenced gentlemen, could help me squeese more from this S/W.
Thanks you in advance,
Peter

In Proshow Producer there are two ways (two different menue options) to generated an mpeg2 DVD quality file. One of them gave me a file described by mediainfo in my original email - encore insisted on transcoding it.
The other way of generaring a DVD mpeg2 file renders a file as below:
General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\amanda_customDVD_2.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 34.4 MiB
Duration                                 : 30s 63ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 9 585 Kbps
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=18
Duration                                 : 30s 63ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 9 200 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.888
Stream size                              : 32.9 MiB (96%)
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Color primaries                          : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.601
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 30s 24ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -33ms
Stream size                              : 821 KiB (2%)
The problem is that Proshow Producer crashes (runs out of memory) while generating this file - this is why it is only 30 seconds long. Now this file does not require transcoding in Encore CS4 and, if it did not crash, would be of acceptable quality.
I do not know what the M/N settings describe but the M/N settings are different in the second file. Some other settings are different as well, e.g., Bit/(Pixel*Frame).
From what I know and from what Photodex support person told me they do not have a way to generate an .m2v file. I can generate an mpeg2 with no audio from Producer but the video encoding would be as it is now I would think so I am not sure what difference (if any) this would make.
Thanks,
Peter

How to avoid video file transcoding

Hello,
This is something I have been struggling with for quite a while. Perhaps you could help me with it.
I am using Photodex Producer to create slide shows from pictures and videos I take. Then I get Producer to generate an HD mpeg2 video file (other formats are also available) with mpeg audio format. Finally I feed such files into Encore 6 to create BD disks. Producer allows for a few parameters to be set but I could not find a way to generate the mpeg2 video files so that I could avoid transcoding in Encore. I looked at the Encore Help | Importing assets page and the recipe there seems to be simple but it does not work for me... Perhaps it is too simple? It does not seem to be enough to use mpeg2 video with mpeg audio and 23.976 fps. Encore always insists on transcoding these files.
Here is an example of one such file (courtesy of mediainfo):
General
Complete name                            : D:\Local\Peter\mpeg2_23_custom.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 67.3 MiB
Duration                                 : 22s 22ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 25.6 Mbps
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@High
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Duration                                 : 22s 22ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 25.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Standard                                 : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.503
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00:00
Time code source                         : Group of pictures header
Stream size                              : 65.3 MiB (97%)
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Color primaries                          : BT.601 PAL
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.470 System B, BT.470 System G
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 22s 8ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -42ms
Stream size                              : 602 KiB (1%)
Could you please help me with this? What is it in this file that forces the need of transcoding in Encore.
Thank you,
Peter

Stan and Jeff, thank you for your comments and help.
I finally found a way to produce a lossless .avi file from Producer. In ver. 6 of Producer it is under "Publish->For Computers->Custom Video File". In the window that pops up you select Format Type: Custom and Format Settings: Format: AVI-Uncompressed. They allow you to set the resolution, frame rate and a few other things. The resulting .avi files were about 10GB for each minute of video (1080p, 23.976 fps).
In this particular project I had 4 files each about 100GB in size. A bit awkward to deal with, size-wise, but still manageable. I imported these files into Encore (did not go through Premiere) and BD transcoded them using all the high quality options I could find. The resulting BD is ok. I think it is noticeably better than what I was getting when I generated mpeg2 files from Producer and then had them transcoded in Encore. The main difference is less distortion in fast changing scenes. I just noticed that in Producer there is a "high-quality" option that I did not see (I used "normal quality"). I'll try it next time (likely will give even bigger .avi files).
I like this new approach as it improves the quality of the final product. I will likely use it as my new workflow. Again, thank you for your help. Please comment if you see anything that could be improved in this process.
I will mark this question as answered. Well, the question was not really answered but the proposed workaround appears to work well.

Is using Media Encoder faster than Transcoding with Encore?

I'm fairly new to the Adobe video side of things, I just switched over from Apple but I am really liking what I'm working with. I've been using the Adobe Dynamic link to edit and auther DVDs. It's nice to not have to overload my computer with exported movies, but it seems to take a very long time to transcode within Encore. What seems to be much quicker is exporting the file out of Premiere and then using Media Encoder to transcode it using the highest quality DVD preset (and switched it to CBR 9 Mbps since my video is only 10 minutes long). I guess I'm curious if this is the method that others use or if most people use Dynamic link to author DVDs.
Thanks,
Joel

The problems some users experience tend to involve Bluray and dynamic link.
For DVDs, I use dynamic link and like it. I do set the preference (available with CS5 and above when using Transcode Now ) for Encore to transcode movie assets using AME, and I transcode with transcode now prior to doing a build.
I do not have a CUDA card, but my understanding is that AME is using 64 bit.

M2v video files in Soundtrack Pro

Good day everybody. I encountered the following problem: Soundtrack Pro works very slow and unstable if I use m2v video.
Any comments?
Thank you.
Message was edited by: M-Serhio

I know But it takes a superfluous time to transcode .m2V files to QT. But it seems I have to do this next time. Any comments more, maybe?

Half my video track missing after automatic transcode in Encore CS3

I'm using the automatic transcode option on a MS DV-AVI file about 2.5 hours long. After transcoding, half the video is missing from the timeline and the project size is less than 2 GB. I can revert the asset back to AVI, and then the video reappears. I've tried re-transcoding several times now, and keep getting the same result.

This is aimed a Premiere Pro, but may help - First, work through the steps here http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
If your problem isn't fixed, report back with the DETAILS asked for in the 16 questions at the end of that link

Transcoding in Encore 2.0 may be buggy.

I imported an avi file from Premiere Pro. It's 1 hour long and was imported into Encore without any trouble. After setting up the chapters and creating the DVD Menu and doing the "Check Project" option I selected the main AVI file and clicked on "Transcode Now". The bar graph then opened up and the process began. The problem was that once the bar graph (for the transcoding) reached the end it jumped back to approximately 60% of the way to the end and kept transcoding until (about 30 minutes later) the bar graph completed. Then it jumped back another seemingly arbitrary amount (to about 80% this time). After about 4 hours the Transcoded file (now an .m2v file), which was automatically created in a sub folder off of the main project folder was as big as it was going to get (about 3.5GB). I played the .m2v file in media player just to check if it was the entire video sequence I was intending to transcode. The video was all there, from beginning to end, minus the audio, which was placed in an .ac3 file (as it should be). The problem was that Encore did not indicate that the transcode was finished (even though the files were done in the subfolder. I clicked on the 'Cancel' button on the transcode and I went back to the original project screen pre-transcoding. Very frusterating. I tried this entire process many times (about 4-5 now). Every time the transcode produces exactly the same 3.5GB file and every time the progress bar never completes and closes and displays a message (ie. "Transcoding Complete" or something like that). I have also attempted to just import the transcoded .m2v files directly into the project, but whenever I do this Encore pops up an error message saying "This file is already in the project" or something to that end. If it's really in the project, why do I not see the transcoded file in the project pane; why doesn't the original .avi file say "transcoded". If anybody has seen this problem it would be appreciated if you could tell me a way around it or provide me with an explanation as to why this is happening. Thanks, Ben.

>Even if things have been changed on my system why should Encore do all the transcoding, write the files to disk and then hang on this issue? Even after a fresh re-install with all registries cleared etc?
An uninstall/Reinstall will almost certainly *not* clear out the registry, or even all the common files installed. Otherwise, you would be able to install a trial version, then uninstall it, and re-install again for another 30 days. This obviously doesn't work - so uninstalling is not removing all the relevant files.
Another common problem is that badly written 3rd party apps often reset the merit order of DirectShow related codecs, and this can mean that even when you think you're using one codec, the system (not Encore, but the OS) will use another one altogether. This can mean that what you
i think
is one type of AVI file is actually a different one, with perhaps an older version of a codec used to create the AVI being used because a codec pack installed/overwrote the good one.
I have had this happen to me - and it is a pig of a problem.
I could be completely wrong though.

How do you tell assets "Don't Transcode" in Encore CS5?

Here's the workflow: Create a project in Premiere CS5 (original source AVCHD 1hour 15min clip with titles at the beginning). Create DVD image, discover error in the title, about 1 minute into clip. OOPS! Trying to save TIME, in Premiere, cut, create new sequence with ONLY the bad 1 minute. Dynamic-link into Encore and create M2V transcode of the one minute.
Back to Premiere...import the transcode (M2V/AC3) of the original sequence. Leave AC3 alone, chop the video at 1M0Sec1Frame and drop in the transcode (M2V) of the corrected title sequence.
I now have "DVD legal" footage of the entire sequence and a perfect virtual butt-splice of the video. When I go back to Encore it should NOT have to re-transcode this footage, and the MANUAL (p. 46) indicates that the "untranscoded" setting can be set to "don't transcode" BUT THERE'S NO MECHANISM FOR DOING THIS! Now...truth be told, the transcode is relatively quick since it's basically just copying the frames from one M2V file into another one...BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TRANSCODE THIS! Problem is, I don't see where the setting is anywhere in Encore to say "Hey, idiot program...leave this footage alone! It's already transcoded!" Help...?

HI,
usually program aren't idiot.
Techs spend much time and strenghts in creating them and titling them idiot is not pretty.
Also if we pay tons of money to buy them.
But, yes, programs can do quirks.
So, anyway:
Project window/ left click over the file you do not want to be transcoded, a window appear and you can choose every setting you want.
Just pay a bit attention: there are two "transcode window".
One is relative to DVD and the other one with Blue Ray.
Just a look at the top of them.
If you do not see "do not trancode" in the options, then, Encore had to do it. (quirks?)
Hope this helps
Ciao
Giorgio

Getting Ripped DVD Video and Audio Into Encore

Do you have previously authored DVDs that need rework? Do you want to add menus with greater impact and functionality? Do you want to add some additional program or supplemental material? Does a client want their product demo DVD to be updated to reflect the capabilities of the new and improved version, but the source files no longer exist? Using Adobe Encore DVD and a freeware utility called DVD Decrypter (DVDD), you can accomplish this quickly and easily.
Disclaimer: I do not support the illegal copying and/or distribution of copyrighted works. The authors and distributors of the software I use have made it clear that they do not support illegal copying. This guide is intended solely to assist you in ripping and copying DVD video to which you have the legal rights. Any use of this guide to infringe the copyright of someone else’s intellectual property is prohibited.
This guide is based on Adobe Encore DVD 1.5.1 and DVD Decrypter version 3.5.4.0. Let’s Begin!
Place the DVD to be ripped in your DVD drive and launch DVDD. If you have more than one drive (e.g., a DVD-ROM and a DVD burner) make sure the one with the disc is selected in the Source dropdown list in the main program window. Now we need to set up DVDD to extract video in a way that is “Encore friendly”. This is the toughest part of the whole exercise. Click on the Tools menu item and choose “Settings…”.
Settings
General Tab: You can leave these set at their defaults if you like. Personally, I specify a custom Default Destination. I put my ripped video assets all in one place anyway, and having a default destination means I have one less thing to do when I rip a DVD.
IFO Mode Tab: Make sure that “Select Main Movie PGC” and “Enable Stream Processing” are checked. “Uncheck Suspect Cells” is probably a good default safety check. If your hard disks are formatted as NTFS, set File Splitting to “None”. I leave “Copy IFO File” checked with the default sub-items checked. Make sure that “Patch M2V Timecode” is unchecked. The items in the Create Additional Files section are purely optional. The author of DVDD has been kind enough to list which programs need which files; notice that Encore DVD isn’t listed as needing any of these extra files. I do keep the “Stream Information” box checked. DVDD generates very informative file names, but I like to keep “Include PGC Number” under File Names checked. Be advised you will get some lengthy file names after DVDD is finished ripping.
Stream Processing Tab: Since we enabled stream processing in the IFO Mode tab, we need to tell DVDD how to process those streams. To save yourself time and confusion later, check the “Convert PCM to WAV” box. Earlier versions of Encore required a Demuxed audio stream and a Raw video stream. Encore 1.5.1 can accept either type of video stream (Raw or Demuxed) but it does still require a Demuxed audio stream. However, I still recommend using Raw video and Demuxed audio, if only because it seems to be somewhat faster to process in DVDD. This workflow is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of Encore.
So let’s set up the Stream Processing tab now. In the Demux box, enter “0x8? 0xA? 0xC?”. This ensures that all audio streams in the selected PGC, whether AC3, PCM or MPEG will be set to Demux. In the Raw box, enter “0xE0”. This ensures that the video from the selected PGC will be set to Raw.
Additional Notes about the Stream Processing Tab:
1. For those of you asking the question, “What the heck is a PGC?” it’s just DVD-speak for the titles in a DVD project. And I’m not talking about the opening or end credits, either; I’m talking about the titles that result, for example, from the timelines you create in an Encore DVD project. There is a subtle difference between a PGC and a VTS (title set), but that's not important right now.
2. Happily, recent versions of DVDD create a WAV file after ripping that will import directly into Encore. Versions prior to 3.2.0.0 would create a WAV file that had to be imported to, and exported from, a sound editing program like Adobe Audition, Goldwave or SoundForge before Encore would recognize it.
Events Tab: For convenience sake, I recommend setting “Set Program Mode” in the Startup section to “IFO”. That way, whenever you launch DVDD, it will look familiar to you. You may safely ignore all of the other tabs in the Settings dialog.
Ripping
1.Under the Input Tab of the main program window, select the PGC you want to rip. You can only do one at a time.
2.Switch to the Stream Processing Tab. Verify that Enable Stream Processing is checked.
3.Check or uncheck any or all of the video and audio streams that are listed. Highlight each one to verify that all audio streams are set to Demux and the video stream is set to Raw.
4.If you didn’t select Default Destination in the General Settings Tab, then you need to tell DVDD where to put the ripped files now.
5.Click on the big DVD-to-Disk icon.
6.DVDD will announce, quite loudly, when it has finished. At that point you can rename the files or import them as is into Encore.
I hope you find this guide useful and that it helps you get the most out of your investment in Adobe Encore DVD.
Guide © Jeff Bellune 2005

OK, I can't tell you what we are doing, you'll have to trust me that it's for a very good cause. I'll simplify the use case as an example. If I can do the following we'll be OK:
1) Read video/audo files from a DVD that we created
2) Open these files with the QuickTime Player, click on Export to Apple TV to create an output file.
I'd rather not do an interim conversion of the video data (like use a 3rd party app to convert to mp4 first and then read into QT, but I'm considering a conversion to DV) because that could seriously hurt the apps effectiveness. I also can't use another app (MPEG Streamclip, HandBrake, VisualHub, etc.) to do the conversion.

.m2v files not working in Encore CS6

When I import .m2v files to the timeline, some of them (only in the video track) are not showing. I tried to open them on other programs, like Windows Media Player, and they won't open too. BUT... when I tried to work with these files in another computer and another version of Encore (mine is the one that comes in the CS6 Master Collection), they seemed to work fine, and I could finish the DVD authoring. What could be the problem?

Sounds like a codec issue - present on one computer, not the other.
In the "bad" computer, Encore is activated, right?
Can you play one of the m2v files from the Encore library? Example, on my pc, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Encore CS6\Library\Entertainment\NTSC\NTSC_Nightlife.m2v

Motion Menue transcoded in Encore is jittering even if framerate is correct

Dear users,
do you experience the same? I have a motion menue encoded in Encore and burnt onto Bluray. I used a quicktime 23.976p file on import as all footage is in 23.976fps as well. Fusion automatically transcoded the file to an m2ts. When I play the Bluray on a hardware player, the motion menue seems to jitter (judder). I check the corresponding m2ts-file in after effects and I see that the framerate seems to be correct, 23.976, but on some frames the video doesn't move, but repeats a frame. How can this be? When source files have all the same framerate?
I am using Encore 5.0 on Windows 7 64bit.
Is this a bug?
Thank you much.

I seem to be having a similar problem, but mine is on DVD with a motion menu. The video, despite the frame rate and conversion method, is rendered as interlaced instead of progressive in Encore. I found this article on Creative Cow that describes my exact issue, and it seems like the issue you are having as well.
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/145/870084

Poor Color on TV after Transcoding with Encore

The color is bad when I view the DVD on my (Panasonic) DVD/VCR-TV that I created with PP/Encore; whereas, when the same DVD is run on my computer the colors are fine. They look just like the originals I worked on in Photoshop. So the problem appears to be with the way the TV is processing the data.
I created the slideshow of 260 photos in PP CS3; then exported to Encore and authored/burned from there without changing anything.
On TV, the images are more contrasty, and the colors seem hotter. Brown looks orange, etc.
I've adjusted the picture settings on the TV, but with little effect.
There's a similar issue when I run the DVD on my Phillips DVD player, but not as pronounced.
Is there some way to correct the colors after the file's been rendered in Premiere Pro and transcoded/authored in Encore?

When the Project was still in PrPro, did you monitor it on a feed to a calibrated NTSC (or PAL) CRT monitor? If you only judged it on the Program Monitor in PrPro, you could well be off. Going back to when the images were in PS, how is your monitor calibrated? Did you use a profile for NTSC (or PAL) Video, or perhaps one for CMYK printing, or RGB display?
Have you tried your DVD on another TV? Unfortunately, most TV's are improperly calibrated. To use one to judge, you should invest in a calibration disc, and run through the setup proceedure. This takes some time and some tweaking, but would be well worth it. Unfortunately, even after you have done this, and all looks perfect on your calibrated TV, you have no control over how the client's TV will be set up. If it's out of the box, with factory settings, it's likely to be way off. That is the unfortunate nature of video. It is actually easier to calibrate one's computer for, say CMYK print work, including their scanner, printers, cameras and monitor, than it is to get great video on several different TV's. Multiply that problem by the different types (and ages) of the displays and it gets out of hand in a hurry.
If you have a friendly retailer, especially one with high-end TV that HAVE been calibrated, ask if you can test your DVD on one of their systems.
Other than the necessary Transcoding to MPEG-2 and the changes in image quality there, Encore should not be changing the gamma, or the color. Also, remember that you are first judging your images on a higher-rez progressive computer monitor, and then compressing the files to a DVD with only the NTSC, or PAL resolution. No TV will ever look as good as a well-calibrated computer screen. That is one reason to view critically only on a true TV monitor fed from PrPro via FireWire.
Let's hope that it's just the device that you are checking the DVD on, but my $ would be on that as the likely problem.
Good luck,
Hunt

Se Desincroniza Video y Audio en Encore CS5.5

Mi problema es como dice el titulo, cada vez que importo una pelicula formato avi como linea de tiempo me desincroniza el audio con el video. Cuando ejecuto el avi en el media player todo esta sincronizado perfectamente, ademas son peliculas que ya las he trabado en TMPGEnc y posteriormente en DVD LabPro y no tenia ningun problema, por la razon que me he pasado a Adobe Encore logicamente las Autorias quedan con una presentacion totalmente superior, pero de nada me esta sirviendo la presentacion de los menus y botones si lo BASICO que es la pelicula no esta sincronizada.
No creo que seria por falta de recursos de la maquina, ya que tengo un procesador i7, 6 gb de ram, 2 tb de disco duro y una tarjeta de video Nvidia Gforce DD3 de 1gb. Talvez alguien me podria sugerir algo para poder resolver este problema. Saludos

Thanks for your reply.
I have 6 timelines. The total program length, as shown in the build tab, is about 3GB used. And it's a DVD project, not BD.
I use MP3 files and I can see the audio keeps conforming from the Progress tab. There's a Stop button,but it's grayed out, so I can't stop it. The setting I am using to transcode is a3c as you mentioned.
The funny thing is that I even deleted the project's audio files from the timelines and Project Assets as well. At this point the audio files don't even exist in my project, and yet the Progress tab shows the audio keeps conforming and my hard drive keeps being swallowed by this monster. That's driving me Nuts!
Originally, and of course, the audio was Untranscoded. I performed the transcoding and yes, PSD images are brought directly as asssets into Encore. I probably should have done this from Premiere, but a) I have never used Premiere, and b) I was just learning how to use Encore by watching some video tutorials.
The thing is that my project was complete and everything was set, including audio conforming. I even outputed a disk image, which I then burned into a DVD. At the time I did this my project was still somewhat small as I just wanted to test the whole process with just a few files. The thing is that at this point I didn't realize what was happening in the background with my hard drive's free space until I later got a Windows warning message of low disk space. And that's when the saga began for me.
Once again, thanks for your help.

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Hello,
When I drag my video to a timeline in Encore CS5, black bars show up because the video is a different size than the project. Is there any way to resize the video in the timeline, or would I have to resize it in Premiere?
Thanks!

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