Alan,
The markers *will* work in Preview without a menu, but not once you burn it.
That is the bug that I mentioned.
As far as fitting the DVD onto a single-layer 4GB disc... The function of
will it fit on a disc is based on your bitrate. You can tweak the bitrate in
the encoder, but Premiere only burns at the bitrate you tell it to. So if it
doesn't fit, then you would want to lower the bitrate down until the total
size is less than ~4.2GB. (I think 4.2 is the practical amount that 4.7
discs hold if memory serves correct. Something like that.)
So it's just math -- bitrate (bits per second) x # of seconds = final size
on disc. Nero may have been automatically lowering the bitrate on your
behalf, but the algorithms that both use to burn is the same -- it's all
based on minimum and maximum bitrate settings.
Does this help clear up your confusion?
As far as the rant goes... I understand your frustration. But understand
that you are using very consumer-based video that is not geared towards
editing. A camera that records to MPEG2 format with GOPs is not a very good
camera for later editing. Those are geared towards people who want to record
their vacation, and then throw the DVD in a player and watch it on TV. So
it's not necessarily the industry that is in its infancy -- its that users
have too many options and don't always choose the option that is based
suited towards editing.
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-----Original Message-----
I have a current project set up in PP2 and it has around 15 DVD markers set
on the timeline. I went into the Build DVD menu and made some settings, then
previewed the output and found that clicking the "Next" button produced the
expected result, skipping from marker to marker, despite having no menu set
whatsoever. Unfortunately I can't burn directly from there because my
project final is just under 2hrs long and no matter which (degraded) setting
I try, PP2 tells me it won't fit on the DVD. However, this is untrue as I've
exported as an AVI file (less DVD markers) and burned with Nero. The fact
that PP2 won't run to dual layer is a PITA!
<rant>
At the moment, the whole project scene is fraught with problems for me. Due
to the fact that one of my camcorders splits files into 2Gb chunks and
misses vital info from the GOP, I have to re-combine the files via
VideoReDo, otherwise I loose too many frames at the joins. Then I set DVD
scene markers but can't put them on the DVD and have to export the project
to another package to burn the DVD. Even some transitions in PP2 are
rudimentary. It seems that the industry is still in its infancy, and we the
customer, are paying for it. I don't mind paying for reasonable development
costs within the price of my purchases, but two or three times over is
something of a joke. Not condoning it, but it's no wonder the spammers are
offering so much cheap pirated software! I'm sure you can appreciate my
frustration. :-) </rant>
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