2 Replies Latest reply: Sep 22, 2013 6:52 PM by eday_2010 RSS

    Playlists and the previous/next buttons

    eday_2010 Community Member

      Once again, Encore proves to be difficult to work with. I have a bunch of m4v and matching ac3 files that I want to put into Encore to create a Blu-ray. However, I cannot place them all in a timeline and be done with it. Because of the null space at the beginning and/or end of the ac3 files, Encore insists on rebuilding them (to stereo instead of 5.1).

       

      One thing I read as a workaround was to use a playlist. I tried that, and set the end action for each timeline to go to the next timeline. Works swell. However, there is no way to go to a previous timeline since each timeline acts like a seperate item on the disc and not as part of a whole movie. Is there a way around this? Is there a way to get items in a playlist to act like a complete movie instead of individual items?

       

      I know another option is to just have one long ac3 file for the whole movie (as well as one long m4v video file), but this isn't really convenient. I like that Encore will tell me how much space is left on the disc as I drop items into timelines; creating one long video and audio file will leave me guessing at how long the move can be and will involve trial and error. On top of that, I will have to scrub through the whole timeline and manually add chapter marks (this is how I did it on my first project). It is a pain.

       

      There has to be a way to use multiple ac3 files in Encore for a movie without them getting transcoded while having all the clips act as one complete movie instead of individual items. At least I hope there is a way...

        • 1. Re: Playlists and the previous/next buttons
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          because Encore cannot generate the 5. 1 files, there is not a good option. Your best work around, is to generate a single audio file. You are  still at risk for problems putting the multiple video files on the same time line, but since the movie files are already generate, you could try that. Adding chapter markers at each video file junction is not difficult.

           

          But a limit of playlists is the inability to use previous chapter to go to an earlier played timeline.

           

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          • 2. Re: Playlists and the previous/next buttons
            eday_2010 Community Member

            Thanks for the replay. I guess what I will do is render all my video clips, drop them in Encore, and stop when I get within a couple of gigs of the disc limit. Then in premiere I will put all the clips together and render out the audio, and then drop the one audio file in Encore.

             

            I know adding chapter markers in Encore is not hard, but it is tedious when you have one long video file and you have to scrub through the whole thing to add them.

             

            Is there another program that will let me use multiple ac3 files in a timeline and keep them as 5.1?