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Encore project for both DVD and Blu-ray?

Jan 25, 2012 4:06 PM

I'm new to Production Premium CS5. I have made all my parts of my project and kept them in HD and rendered them all in Media Encoder CS5 for blu-ray. I assembled my project in Encore and then previewed the whole blu-ray disc to make sure nothing was left out. I then burned a DVD. After burning the DVD, my preview is no longer clear like HD clear. It's more pixelated like a DVD project. Is there a way to get the preview back to HD quality preview or should I copy the Encore project and rename it for a DVD project before burning my first one. The reason I am asking is I do make two copies of the Encore Project on my hard drive, one for DVD and the other for Blu-ray, and it works but the two projects take up double the space on my hard drive. Any solution?

655 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: B.Frankforther, Jan 26, 2012 4:11 AM
 
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  • Stan Jones
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    1. Stan Jones,
    Jan 25, 2012 6:27 PM   in reply to B.Frankforther
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    So you changed the Bluray project settings to DVD settings, right? What were the settings you made?

     

    What was pixelated? Menus, motion menus, or timelines or all?

     

    Letting Encore downrez HD movies for a DVD does not generally result in the best quality. But look at your DVD transcode settings in Encore first.

     
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    2. B.Frankforther,
    Jan 25, 2012 8:23 PM   in reply to Stan Jones
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    I created the whole project for Blu-ray, all of the preview looks crisp and clear. Then I burned a blu-ray of the project then reopened the same project to make a DVD. I did change the project settings to DVD, burned a DVD, then changed the project settings back to Blu-ray. Now all of the preview is DVD quality and no longer Blu-ray crisp and clear.

     
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  • Stan Jones
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    3. Stan Jones,
    Jan 25, 2012 8:59 PM   in reply to B.Frankforther
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    I don't do a lot of Bluray, and based on other comments, the experiments I have done generally are BD and DVD projects separately.

     

    I wonder if you have to re-render the menus after going back to BD.

     

    DVD is just not BD. When you focus on the "crisp and clear," it makes me wonder if you are just not seeing what you like in the DVD. What is actually pixelated? What are the DVD transcode (defaults) settings? etc.

     

    If you have not done other projects, I would do a DVD from scratch, and see how that looks.

     
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  • Jim Simon
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    4. Jim Simon,
    Jan 25, 2012 10:50 PM   in reply to B.Frankforther
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    Any solution?

     

    I would recommend creating two projects.  Never change a project's settings.

     
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    5. B.Frankforther,
    Jan 26, 2012 4:11 AM   in reply to Jim Simon
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    Yeah that's what I have done so far. I have only had Production Premium CS5 since last spring and only have done 4 projects. I backup all my projects onto disc when finished. I was just seeing if there was a work around to this so I don't have to burn two backups discs, one for DVD project and one for Blu-ray project.

     
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