2 Replies Latest reply: Aug 19, 2009 10:01 AM by Kevin Zwack RSS

    Dynamic link new feature or bug

    Kevin Zwack Community Member

      If I create an Encore project comprised of dynamic-link sequences from Premier and build a DVD, that works fine.  However, if later I change one or more of the sequences in Premier, save everything, and open Encore, it does not know that some of the sequences need to be transcoded again.  I found that to work around this, I must do "revert to original" to the sequences I've changed to get Encore to transcode them again.  Can't this be handled automagically?

        • 1. Re: Dynamic link new feature or bug
          Jeff Bellune CommunityMVP

          Can't this be handled automagically?

          Even with video files that reside on your hard drive, once they've been transcoded En looks only at the transcoded version unless you tell it to do otherwise.

           

          If En were to trash the transcoded version (which may have taken hours and hours to produce) anytime Encore or Windows or OS-X thought the file or the sequence had changed, there would be a lot of angry authors out there.

           

          So with real files or linked sequences, you have to explicitly tell En that you don't want the transcoded version any more.

           

          -Jeff

          • 2. Re: Dynamic link new feature or bug
            Kevin Zwack Community Member

            Jeff,

             

            Good point, any unnecessary transcoding would be even more annoying.  What if En just looked at this when you do "Check Project" and issued a message for any sequences that might need re-transcoding by comparing timestamps or whatever.

             

            It just seems odd that the dyanmic link between En and Pr is much "looser" than say between Pr and Ae.

             

            Thanks,

            Kevin