Project Resolution for Encore CS5

I've recently started using Encore CS5 to create Blu-ray discs. I'm creating my projects from sequences from within Final Cut 7 and creating the Blu-ray files using Compressor.
I've noticed that Encore asks you to select a project resolution when creating a new project. For my first disc, everything was shot at 1920x1080, so the choice was easy. However, I'm now creating a second disc which uses material that is both 1920x1080 and 1280x720. I've once again created the Blu-ray files in Compressor.
Suppose I set the project resolution to 1920x1080 - what will I have to do to the 1280x720 files? Can I just insert them into the project? If I do that, will Encore re-encode the files to match the 1080 resolution? Or, should I up-res them in Final Cut by dropping them into a 1080 sequence and re-export them? Or, if I drop them in, will they just be left alone and unchanged?
Is it possible to have a disc with mixed resolutions? I'm confused on how to proceed...
John-Paul

Another thing to watch out for is the whole interlaced and progressive scan thing.
Primary Video reolutions and frame rates allowed are, I believe, as below.
In this case, you must be very careful to match frame rates or else transcoding may well ensue....
i/.     1920x1080 (aka"Full HD") allowing frame rates of 29.97i, 25i, 24p and 23.976p
ii/.     1440x1080 allowing frame rates of 29.97i, 25i, 24p and 23.96p
iii/.     1280x720 allowing frame rates of 59.94p, 50p, 24p and 23.976p
iv/.     720x576 allowing a frame rate of 25i
v/.     720x480 allowing a frame rate of 29.97i

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> My wish is they get the bloody software to work properly in the first place. There are many inadequacies in the software that I would like to see added, but frankly, this is the WORST product I have ever seen Adobe relese. I cannot produce a single DVD project without it crashing, bugging out, and generally being a pain in the butt. If you see the forums on here, and across the net, you will see I am not the only person voicing this, and I have used $20 software that fares way better than this.
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It wasn't a move at all - EncoreDVD is
i licensed
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I can see one of the possible problems right away.
Quad core? AFAIK, these systems simply did not exist when Encore was coded. It's quite possible you have a hardware setup that is completely untested. I may be off the mark here though.
>I am well aware that people use hardware and situations that the developers never envisaged, but that is what Beta testing is all about.
Twaddle.
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Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz for DV
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz or Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz for HDV
AMD must have SSE2 instruction sets.
There is no mention at all of Dual Core, or Quad Core CPU here - therefore this has to be considered as untested, and whilst it may work, it will not be guaranteed to work.
There is also NO mention of guaranteed functionality to a server. The specs actually say:
i Dedicated 7200 rpm drive for DV and HDV editing. Striped array (RAID 0) for HD
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Anna, I appreciate your comment regarding keeping it simple, however, although I am far from a PPro expert, I definitely am into Home Video and understand quality and resolutions, etc., so I want to get the best quality even if I have to do a little work.. So I'll get there. I see that clicking on that menu item allows you to choose maximum render quality. I have plenty of RAM but since I am not going SD to HD or SD to HD, perhaps it won't matter much. However I am confused by the resolution you are showing there, 1440x1080?
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3) How do I set square pixels?
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16.0 GB
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9.76 GB
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7.98 GB
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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
Overall bit rate                         : 27.0 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate                 : 33.0 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2011-10-14 22:10:51
Video
ID                                       : 2064 (0x810)
Menu ID                                  : 100 (0x64)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Commercial name                          : HDV 1080i
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@High 1440
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Codec ID                                 : 2
Duration                                 : 49mn 48s
Bit rate                                 : 25.3 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 25.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 440 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : Component
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
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
Audio
ID                                       : 2068 (0x814)
Menu ID                                  : 100 (0x64)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Codec ID                                 : 3
Duration                                 : 49mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -63ms
Stream size                              : 137 MiB (1%)
General
Complete name                            : A:\Soundboard\Napalm Death fixed.wav
Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 545 MiB
Duration                                 : 49mn 37s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 1 536 Kbps
Audio
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 49mn 37s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 545 MiB (100%)
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Can you help?
This is Win7 on an Asus P9X79 MB with Intell i73930 and 16 gigs of ram.

>This is a new install and the first time I've tried to run Encore
Have you checked to see if there are any updates for Encore?
All Adobe updates start here and select product, read to see if you need to install updates in number order, or if the updates are cumulative for the individual product http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
Have you also made sure Win7 is updated?
And, some other things to check...
As well as the below, right click the Encore 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/771202
-Set to always "run as" via icon http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395
Odd Errors http://forums.adobe.com/thread/670174
Long File Names or odd characters cause problems
Read http://forums.adobe.com/thread/588273
And #4 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/666558
And This Message Thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/665641

Encore CS5 freezes opening project

I am running Production Premium CS4 and CS5 on Vista Business 32-bit.
I can't use the Dynamic Link in Encore CS5 as I don't have After Effect CS5 or Premiere Pro CS5 installed so I've created a new project in Encore CS4, imported footage from an After Effects project and saved the project. I then try to open the project in Encore CS5 and it freezes at 13% of the 'opening project' popup box every time.
Can anyone suggest how I might resolve this problem? Thanks.

Just did a search for this problem as my progam also started to hang all of a sudden - at 13% while opening.
I figured it might have been something to do with my clearing out the massive Adobe cache last night. (Useful to do if you suddenly find that you're missing hard drive space and it's not the shadow files. Look in hidden file AppData Adobe Common....)
Anyway, after reading this post, I opened the Premiere Pro file that was used to create the film file originally (even though I never exported this file directly to Encore. I used Media Encoder first.)
As soon as the file loaded in Premiere, the Encore problem resolved. (I had tried it several times before with no luck.)
I didn't need to go back into the Cache folder or rename anything.

C7 breaks down after choosing the resolution for a new project

Hello Community,
finally I succeeded in installing C7 on my MacBook Pro with Mavericks 10.9. But it breaks down every time after I choose the resolution for my project. The beachball appears for one second and then C7 breaks down.
On the same MacBook I can open C7 on another account. But I want to use C7 on my account.
Has anybody expereienced the same problems?
Has anybody a solution for my problem?
Cheers,
Tom

Hi there,
can you please try deleting preferences by using the "CleanPreferencesMac" present in the Captivate installation location/Ultils folder, relaunch Captivate and see it resolves the issue or not.
Thanks,
Nimmy Sukumaran.

How do I best compress a multi file project in Encore CS5 to fit a standard DVD?

Hello,
I have created a series of small films in Final Cut Pro X, they have been exported as seperate audio and video tracks, ac3 audio and mpeg video from the presets in FCPX.
I want to use Encore CS5 to create DVDs out of them and I have used it before but only know the basics. The problem is that after I import all the media files, that I want on the first DVD, as assets and put them on the timeline it adds up to 7.23 GB, even though the time is just under 2 hours. I know that that might be pushing it a little bit in regards to the amount of time that I can fit on a regular 4.7 GB DVD, but it should't take up that much space. I removed a bunch of files from the timeline to see what I could fit and only got just under 1 hour. I can see that it is possible to decrease the file sizes, for instance by going to 'file'-'edit quality presets' and doing stuff there, but 'm not sure of the best way to do that.
In other posts I have seen mentions of encore compressing files to fit automatically, but what i want is a way to fit all the video files, not the audio i guess, to a dvd with minimum quality loss. does anyone know the best way to do this?
the only thing i can think off is either to use more DVDs than I feel that I should have to, or to burn a 7.23 GB image and then shrink that using soomething like DVD shrink, but that seems unecessary.
So I have a feeling that there is a smart way to do this and would appreciate any help.
Thanks. Nik

hello,
Firstly: John, if I export as a .mov and then import to Encore and transcode there will that mean that the file will be shrunk with minimum quality loss? because the .mov file i get using a simple movie export is massive.
below follows my findings and more questions. I suppose I should maybe be moving over to a FCPX & Compressor 4 forum. I think I need to do some studies on Bitrate here.
I tried the option of automatic transcoding in Encore to fit all files on a DVD and the results weren't terrible, in fact they are almost good enough, but not quite. it's sequences with fast movement that really are affected. So Stan, not much difference.
the problem is that the footage i am working with is pretty poor quality to start with. I am working with a bunch of Super 8 family films that have been scanned on to DVDs.
In FCPX a film that is 32 Min Pal SD 25p surround sound keeps coming out way to big. Below are some examples:
-When I export directly from FCPX as a movie (.mov) with the simple export settings and 'keep current settings' the file ends up being a massive 11.16 GB! With all other setting options the file is also expected to be very big ranging from something like 2.3 GB to 23GB.
-When I send it to Compressor 4 and choose the 'SD video sharing' option for uploading online it ends up at 1 GB. These are the settings and summary:
Name: SD Video Sharing
Description: SD for upload to web sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 783.36 MB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
    AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
    Width and Height: Up to 640 x 360
    Pixel aspect ratio: Default
    Crop: None
    Padding: None
    Frame rate: (100% of source)
    Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
    Codec Type: H.264
    Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
    Pixel depth: 24
    Spatial quality: 75
    Min. Spatial quality: 25
    Temporal quality: 50
    Min. temporal quality: 25
    Average data rate: 1.741 (Mbps)
-When I export the film under the standard DVD export settings I get two files and sizes, one for audio (.ac3) 108.4 mb and one for video .m2v 1.89 GB. The general video setting summary follows:
Name: MPEG-2 for DVD
Description: MPEG-2 elementary stream for DVD Authoring
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 1.89 GB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
    Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
    Width and Height: Automatic
        Selected: 720 x 576
    Pixel aspect ratio: PAL CCIR 601
    Crop: None
    Padding: None
    Frame rate: (100% of source)
        Selected: 25
    Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
    Start timecode from source
    Aspect ratio: Automatic
        Selected 4:3
    Field dominance: Automatic:
         Selected Progressive
    Average bit rate automatic,
        selected: 7.826087 (Mbps)
    1 Pass VBR enabled
        Maximum bit rate: 9 (Mbps)
    High quality
    Best motion estimation
    Closed GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP
    DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
well thanks for the help both of you. it seems that outputting way too big files might be one of the many annoying bugs of FCPX.

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