I 2nd what Taky said, I used Ulead DVD Workshop 2, it's MUCH easier to use than Encore, and does a great job, for my latest short film, A Joker's Card, I have menu, when you select an option, it goes to a video clip and then to another menu of options, and I got 5.1, commentary tracks, etc placed into it. I also found out, a few things about the program, for upmost quality;
1. encode the video outside of ulead (sometimes, the ulead's mpeg2 encoder doesn't do a good job with jerky or fast motion videos, so I use Canopus' Precoder for those or it would be pixelated). 2. encode 5.1 surround sound audio (ac3) and bring it in to DVD Ulead Workshop, once it's IN the program, do not alter the volumne or such or it will be re-encoded, then you lose the 5.1 surround sound, Ulead ONLY do 2 channels (ac3) not the whole 5.1, so basically create your ac3 files outside of Ulead then important it and do not alter it and you'll set. You can use besweet which is a free non-license ac3 encoder (I like it), or use within premiere pro's surcode 5.1 (but you have to pay $299 after 3 trials) 3. you might have to play around with mpeg2 encoding quality (if doing it outside of ulead) if you have multiple clips to be included, or it's not going to fit... 4. I've experienced some problem doing burn to dvd from witin Ulead, usually I do is let ulead create an image file and then use nero to burn several copies If anyone interested a copy of A Joker's Card (cheap) you can get a copy at www.mdifilm.com/joker and it contains 5.1 and stereo track, commentaries, behind the scene footages, trailers, some short films by cast/crew, and a CD soundtrack for $10 + $1.5 shipping cost. Those are some of my experience with Ulead. I've used Encore but the 'process' confuses me a lot... Johnny Wu www.mdifilm.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sune Alexandersen Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 6:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AP] Adobe Encore On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Taky Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ditched Encore and now using Ulead DVD Workshop 2. It is easy to > use and the result is professional. There are built in templates for > wedding/romantic theme. Sounds like I need to take a look at Ulead! I find Encore unessesary difficult to use. I don't want to spend hours on authoring a simple dvd. How about the encoding/transcoding? Faster? -- www.suneworld.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hndf28i/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1708568768:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124460280/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
