Menu size still exceeds limits (Encore CS5.1)
My project has 12 menus, each with a few seconds of video (longest is 30 sec) and a whole song. Initially, I used to .avi and .wav files, but then discovered the 1GB menu limit and changed the videos to .m2v in Premiere and AE and changed the audio to .mp3 in Audition. I deleted the large files from the project and even removed them from the project’s file directory (saw that tip somewhere). But the “total menu size exceeds limit” error won’t go away. Is there a way to find the menu sizes? They don't show in the Project or Properties tabs. Any other ideas on what may be causing the error?
DVD spec limits the total amount of content for menus etc (menu itself, highlights, motion) to 1 gig. This is the size after it is all processed. Encore predicts how large that will be when it has finished processing, and warns you when that size will be too large.
Changing the sizes of the source files for motion assets, sound, etc, does not help your end result. You set the properties for Encore to use to process in the project setting "default transcode." And in DVD, you have only the choice of the maximum video plus audio bitrate. I do believe you will reduce the size of the menu total by reducing that max, but you will also reduce quality.
It is important that your project setting is for ac3 audio.
Your problem, it seems to me, is that a menu wth a "whole song," that also has video, even if short, and multiplied by 12 such menus, is using a huge amount of space for that content.
You can control some of that if you use highlight only menus, and render the menu background ahead into m2v's and a3c. But that can be difficult.
To experiment, "save as" your project, then remove the video from all your motion menus. If you still get the "menu exceeds limit," your audio alone is a problem.
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Now uninstall the CS6 Content and reinstall the 5.1 FC using the disc or the downloded FC you have. In this way you will recover back your 5.1 FC and can also use the 6.0 FC by pointing Encore to its location. I tried it and this works
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2011 macbook pro, 8gb ram, all working files (connected assets) are on the hard drive, Panasonic BD burner connected firewire 800, Encore CS5
This is a blu-ray project.
I have created a movie that has only 2 menus. The main menu and a chapter selction menu.
The menus have a video file playing in the background with text generated from the video editor appearing 10 seconds in. This menu is very basic...video background with 3 buttons overlayed on top placed where the text appears. Of these buttons, one plays the main movie, another plays a behind the scenes, and the last directs the user to the chapter selection menu.
The video files for the menu background were transcoded in Media Manager to Blu-ray h.264 and imported assets as .m4v video and .ac3 audio.
The actual movie files are also imported in this same manner and are working fine.
Preview works fine except where indicated below in the form of the background video being in poor quality.
Problem:
When the disc is inserted into a blu-ray player, the main menu background video looks worse than standard def videos. At the loop point set for the buttons to "appear and activate" (10sec) the video freezes, screen turns black for just a split second (literally, split second) then re-appears normally with all buttons working fine, the video plays accordingly but is still in bad quality. The buttons work as supposed to and the movies they're connected to are brilliantly played in blu-ray quality without any problems.
On the chapter selection menu, the same applys to the background video where it plays in poor quality but the problem here is again at the loop point but has a different action. At the time of the loop point (again 10sec) the video stops, then jumps back to the beginning of the Chapter menu and starts over again. It does this over and over, never allowing me to get to the buttons for chapter selection. It just loops back to the beginning of the same menu. The only way to stop this is to press the main menu button on the remote to get back to the main menu.
So...2 things:
1) howcome the background videos in the menus are in bad quality? Do know in the preview, the background videos are in the good quality sometimes. In other words, when I press the preview, sometimes the videos are shown in good quality, and sometimes they're not. I onced "fixed" it when it previewed in poor quality by disconnecting the wip to the asset, then reconnecting it. It played fine in the preview once but then the next time I previewed it, it was in poor quality.
2) why are there 2 different glitches at the loop points on the menus. Both menus are identical in properties, not in asset connections. As a matter of fact, the chapter menu was created by copy/pasting the main menu, changing the assets, and using more buttons (these buttons were also copy/paste from the main menu buttons but have different links). Also know that in preview, the loop points work just fine and the buttons appear without a problem, but the video quality is diminished as with the main menu.
2 Burn processes tried and have identical problems:
I created discs using 2 methods and the problems are identical in both. I burned a blu-ray disc directly from Encore which exhibited these problems. I also made a folder and burned the BDMV file in Toast Titanium Pro 10 and also have these same identcal problems. I did make an .iso file also, but don't know how to test that on a blu-ray disc. I am using BD-RE discs so that I don't waste a lot of money.
Please help. I am in crunch time and have less than 2 weeks to complete this and get 100 discs burned.
Thank you again for reading this and for any and all help.
CharlieHi Charlie,
about loop point frezees (black video), no way out, sorry: this is an Encore CS5 bug and we all are waiting for the brand new CS5.5.
Jon Jeddes has tried to find a solution with other sws support but he met lot of difficulties.
About your low definition results, it could depend by many things.
Don't know Media Manager, but, usually, low definitions are related to low bitrates (check yours are at least 25 Mb per second).
Hope this will help.
Ciao
Giorgio -
Encore CS5 Popup Menu Capabilities
I understand how to create pop-up menus from PSDs in Encore CS5. Are there any capabilities for things like a timeline bar with current position, sound effects for buttons, etc? It also most seems like, besides being able to put a popup menu in a Blu-ray, you don't get much more than DVD menu abilities.
Hi Nick,
We are in the process of releasing a new Macintosh application designed to work with Encore to add additional functionality.
http://www.rivergatesoftware.com/
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There are other professional solutions besides Scenarist and BluPrint coming to the fore. NetBlender DoStudio is "only" $3-5k, depending on features, and is being used to do many of the independent releases today. DVDLogic has a menu creation and editing system, and indeed a complete authoring solution in the works. All of these are PC only.
We are Macintosh only. But if you remember, in the early days of DVD most serious authors used both Mac and PC, and our software has always worked with build folders from any authoring application.
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Larry -
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Encore Menu sizes for PAL widescreen SD
Premier Pro CS 5.5 (v5.5.2)
Encore CS5 (v5.1.0.342)
Photoshop CS (v8.0)
Hi all
Bit of a NOOB question I'm afraid, but it sure is befuddling me! (NOOB to Encore that is, but an old hand at DVD authoring)
According to the Encore documentation, PAL widescreen SD menus should be created 720x576 pixels, 1.42 pixel aspect ratio... this seems perfectly logical and is what I've done many times in the past when creating menus for my main DVD authoring app (DVDLab Pro).
However, when editing PAL widescreen SD menus from within Encore in Photoshop, the pixel aspect ratio is set to 1.458. Indeed, within Premiere Pro all SD widescreen options are shown using a pixel aspect ratio of 1.458.
Is the documentation incorrect, or have I been missing something fundamental all these years?
Would appreciate anybodys thoughts & observations on this...
TimYou have discovered a "bug" in the Encore documentation. The actual menus in the library are correct, but what help says about them is wrong.
The "about creating menus in ps"
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WS2C3F3ABD-6457-4ca0-898F-720B7E3D0C10.html
and the par info page:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe807401038582db29-7fb2a.html
are wrong - they use the old pars.
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Message was edited by: Kevin Nay
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Subpicture misalignment in Encore CS5 is driving me nuts
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Kernel panic rendering AVCHD footage in Encore CS5 or CS6
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panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff800fe9db1b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x1, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2337
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12C60
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last unloaded kext at 1360973799296735: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost 2.3.6 (addr 0xffffff7f9260b000, size 20480)After a not-too-intense Bing search, the particular panic you're getting seems to be an indication of:
Your Mac Pro is dying.
Bad drivers in combo with an unforgiving OS.
I don't have any easy advice for number 1. If it is still a heat issue, you may need to redo the thermal paste on the CPU and blow the dust out of the heat sink. If it's a deeper problem than that, some serious repair work up to and including replacement may be required. Either way, it will be a painful fix. For number 2, try updating your graphics card drivers (which card do you have?) and/or going back to 10.6.x or Lion 10.7.x and see if things improve.
Jeff
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Adobe Encore CS5.1 producing DVDs with flickering video
Hey all, new to the forums but been using Adobe software for a couple of years now.
I've got Encore CS5.1 as part of the Adobe Master Collection CS5.5, and recently I've been using it to burn DVD videos.
I made a video in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 a few weeks ago and rendered it as an mp4 file in h.264 HDTV 24fps (video recorded with my Nikon D3200 D-SLR). I then imported the mp4 file into Encore as an asset (I didn't use Dynamic Link to insert the prproj file into Encore) and burned it onto a 4.7GB DVD (no menus or anything, just a simple DVD) and it looked absolutely fine on both my PC and on the TV and the recipient of the DVD was very happy with the result. The video was 28 minutes long and 6.2GB in size.
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I did briefly have a trial version of CS6 installed and I rendered the video again in Premiere Pro CS6 and tried burning to a DVD using Encore CS6, but still got the same results. I don't have CS6 now, I installed it purely to see if CS5.5 was the problem.
I don't understand why the first video I burned to DVD using Encore was perfect and now it seems to be giving me flickery video once it's burned to a DVD whenever I use it.
I have updated it to version 5.1.0.342 which at the time of writing is the latesrt version of CS5.1.
If anybody out there could help me that would be great, thanks!Still flickering on Encore even when rendered in MPEG-2 DVD in Pemiere Pro CS5.5. Looks perfect in Premiere Pro.
Any other ideas?
EDIT: Was looking for Google for people with similar problems to me and I came across this http://forums.adobe.com/message/3959757?tstart=0
I am currently re-rendering the video in PAL DV Widescreen MPEG-2 DVD and using maximum render quality. -
Encore CS5 crashes on importing _sessionFiles....ac3 for blu-ray.
Ok, for starters, I've been using cs3-4-5 for a while to create DVDs, no problem whatsoever. Even with ADL (Adobe Dynamic Link). I've been able to burn 1 perfect blu-ray project, it was on a fresh install of CS5. Since then Encore CS5 keeps freezing when re-importing the files right after the transcoding. It always freezes at the same place on many different projects;
The filename is: _sessionFiles_Asf_session_1_audio.ac3
I've tried many things: run as admin, holding ctrl/shift/alt on startup, cleaning cache. I even used the compressed files from the transcoded folders. My audio and video are of the same length. I just re-installed the suite today just to try it again on a clean install.
I've also tried the audio as pcm:
Here are my specs:
OS Name
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version
6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
System Type
x64-based PC
Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date
American Megatrends Inc. 0501, 5/9/2011
SMBIOS Version
2.6
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)
8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory
7.98 GB
Available Physical Memory
3.58 GB
Total Virtual Memory
16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory
9.76 GB
Page File Space
7.98 GB
Hard Drive space isn't a problem, I have more than 3tb of free space.
Any feedback would be really appreciated!I was able to burn a blu-ray disc with my latest project but not without any hassles!!! I had to remove all audio from the menus except the main one. The software allows me for 1 menu with audio along with my main timeline. If I add audio to another menu, it crashes.
My project is a 4cam live show with 1 audio track.
The source format is from my HDV Camera. So it's a .m2t file.
The audio track is from the soundboard, a .wav file.
Edited in Premiere pro CS5
In Encore:
I'm using Dynamic Link ( I also tried with a rendered .mkv file of the project)
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1 popmenu
audio for menus are high quality mp3s
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0501, 5/9/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.98 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.01 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.86 GB
Page File Space 7.98 GB
files info:
General
ID : 255 (0xFF)
Complete name : A:\Napalm Death.m2t
Format : MPEG-TS
Commercial name : HDV 1080i
File size : 9.39 GiB
Duration : 49mn 48s
Start time : UTC 2011-10-14 22:10:51
End time : UTC 2011-10-14 23:00:29
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Encoded date : UTC 2011-10-14 22:10:51
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Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.542
Stream size : 8.79 GiB (94%)
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
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Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -63ms
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I've done another project and have encountered the same problems. So what I do now is main menu with audio, rest of the menus no audio.
I like Encore coz I can do popmenu with it, other softwares don't offer it. With other softwares I can do a perfect blu-ray with audio on all menus but no popmenu. That's why I'm working so hard to try to resolve the errors with Encore, so I can have projects with popmenu!!! If other softwares would allow for popmenu I would drop Encore. -
Encore CS5 Blu-Ray Preview Playback Issues / Authoring Issues
Hello,
I'm using Adobe Encore CS5 on a Mac Pro (Nehalem) 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon w/ 8 GB Ram on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
I've recently upgraded to CS5 after having no luck using CS3 to make Blu-Ray discs. So far my experience has been a little disappointing -- it feels like they still haven't got it right. Below is a list of my issues thus far -- perhaps some of you have run into similar things:
- When importing MATROX encoded H.264 Blu-Ray files Encore CS5 hangs up. I tried this with a 54 minute encoded file. Instead I re-transcoded using the CS5 Media Encoder to the Main Concept H.264. This worked fine, although the import still hung up for several minutes before anything made it's way into the project.
- When I try opening my already existing project with a 54 minute video inside it hangs up and takes as long as 3-5 minutes to finally open successfully. This seems to happen consistently.
- After rendering motion menus and rendering them in the project the playback preview stutters. It's very steppy throughout as the video plays in the background. I even tried authoring a disc and playing it in a Blu-Ray player -- it did the same thing once authored. I've tried re-encoding the video in Media Encoder and have found the problem persists. Has anyone else experienced this with motion menus? By the way, I'm transcoding @ 25mbps (max 30mbps) in the Media Encoder.
- While trying to re-author my Blu-Ray the playback preview does not play audio on the main video when I click to play it. I've tried re-importing the asset and previewing but this does not work. I'm going to re-author the disc anyway to see if it plays right on the disc but can't understand why the preview doesn't work even if the Blu-Ray itself is fine (which it is). I should add that the first time I authored this disc the audio was fine on the main video. Preview was also fine. So I'm not sure what's happening now - I haven't changed anything in the project.
- Portions of my video on the authored video play back with slight stutter even though the source video (ProRes HQ QuickTime) does not. Is this a problem with the Main Concept H.264 encode? Should I try a 2-pass VBR transcode as another try (instead of 1-pass)? My target bit rate is 25 mbps (with a max of 30 mbps). That shouldn't be too high for a player to handle without stutter. The stutter also happens in the same place every time so it makes me think it's the encode of the file itself that's the problem.
All in all these are mainly quirks about Encore that have begun to add up and frustrate me as a user. It would be nice if these things just worked as they should. But if anyone has ideas or can think of something I might be missing in all of this that would be great to hear.
Thanks for reading.
All the best,
JDAs a follow up, I tried knocking down the number of chapters by 1/3 so there would be a total of 28 chapters instead of 41. As it turns out, the disc is still exiting the timeline and returning to the main menu at exactly the same point (which happens to be one second into a particular chapter of the timeline, just shy of 90 minutes into the timeline). It's as if Encore has split my single timeline into two timelines.
If it's of any help understanding what's happening, the entire timeline is 02;05;23;21 long. When Encore creates the Blu-ray disc, playback of the timeline ends at approximately 01;26;43;10. I then have to go to my Scenes menu and pick up where I left off as it's the only way to see the last ~39 minutes of the sequence.
As I mentioned, if I burn this as a standard definition (4.7GB) disc, it plays normally with no breaks. It's only if I burn it to a 25GB single-layer Blu-ray disc that I see the problem (using multiple Blu-ray players).
Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this problem. -
Hello all!
Hoping somebody knowledgeable can give me a hand here!
So, the story is I am creating a video menu for a Blu-Ray project using Photoshop CS5.1 and Premiere Pro CS5.5.
I have created the buttons in Photoshop, and I have then 'disabled' the background layer so I just have the buttons. I have saved this as a PSD and inserted in Encore as a menu.
I made a video in Premiere Pro CS5.5 which I'd like to use as my menu background. It is 2 minutes 43 seconds long and was rendered in MP4 h.264 HDTV 1080p 24fps straight from Premiere Pro, since this is for a Blu-Ray disc. The video is 302MB in size. The video has audio so I have not specified a specific audio file for my video menu.
Now the problem is when I put all of this into Encore and click on the Preview in Encore, all I am seeing is the text/buttons from my PSD file, and not any video. I have pressed the little 'Render' button but it's not working. In a previous project (which I have now sadly deleted), I used a shorter and smaller (in file size) video and also a different PSD file and I got it to work - but I don't understand why it isn't working now.
I saw in some other threads people were saying that they have had problems with the menu being 'too big' when they checked it. I don't have this problem when I check it.
I've tried another video file and the same thing is happening - can only see the buttons/text, but no video. Maybe my PSD file is the problem?
Anybody got any idea as to why this isn't working? I'll post some screenshots below so you can see:
Menu buttons in Photoshop - all look OK?
What I see in the Preview window - I should see the video playing and the buttons, right? Not just the buttons? As you can see, I've linked it to the video which I want.
Here are my menu layers as displayed in Encore - does it look correct?
This is the 'Check Build' window - no errors found (deseleted button links because I have no video imported at the moment, only working on the menu at the moment).
Finally, my build settings. I'll be putting this on a 25GB Blu-Ray disc. I presume that 500MB or so is used for the menu?
Thank you to anybody who can help me out!Hi there, thanks for your input!
I've not had a look at the highlights and stuff like that yet, I've just been trying to get this video to work as a menu background. I will get round to looking at highlights shortly.
I will turn the visibility on and get back to you tomorrow on that - hopefully it will work!
You can already see the Motion Tab in my second screenshot on the far left. I'll post a new screenshot tomorrow if it helps though.
Thanks!
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