Adobe Encore & Nero Burning - slow sound

[Steve Mackay]

I'm using Adobe Encore to try and author my home video to a DVD. I having troubling with the burn process.

Firstly I tried to use Encore to author the DVD and burn directly to my Plextor 708/A DVD burner. However Encore threw up some meaningless error when it came to the burning part of process. (it seemed to encode the DVD fine to my hard drive but couldn't burn it)

Secondly I decided to use Encore to write a DVD image to my hard drive. This worked well enough. Although is there any way I can view the quality of the image before I burn it to DVD?

Then I used Nero Burning (version 6.something). It seemed to work. Except when I viewed the DVD the picture quality seemed okay (not nearly as good as my original .avi) and the sound quality was terrible. The sound and picture seemed to be synced but both sound and picture seemed to slow down (like playing a 45rpm record at 33rpm except not as drastic).

My feeling is it's not Nero but the image disc Encore is creating.

Any ideas

General comments about Encore - I'm not impressed . It has crashed on me several times. Creating basic menus was as struggle. The error messages are awful. I think I'm going to evaluate DVD-lab to see how things work out.

[rallynavvie]

Everyone's having these crashes and I don't know where it's coming from anymore. Make sure you've patched to v1.1 as that clears up a lot of the "unknown" errors. The other thing I'd suggest doing is encoding your video files to MPEG-2 elementary streams before importing into Encore. The MPEG encoder Encore has is crap, you'll get more control over the quality and settings by encoding with TMPGEnc first. I've always encoded to elementary streams after my experiences with Maestro so I still do for Encore. Seems to work fine. My preferred authoring method is making an image from Encore and burning with DVD Decrypter. When using Nero I'm using v5.5 because I know it has worked, I haven't seen enough about Nero 6 to give it a try yet.

Alcohol 120 should be able to mount the DVD image file on an emulated drive, then you should be able to play it with whatever software player you use (just make sure to point it at this new drive letter).

Honestly I think it's just the Encore MPEG codec that's messing up your files. Especially if the AVI is in some codec that's not DV quality (like DivX). Since Encore won't have to transcode files that are already in DVD standard formats what you see in the imported files it what you should get.

Honestly, I've been using Encore since September and had only one crash that month. Ever since that one I haven't had a problem with it at all, and I've created a dozen or more different images in the past few months.

[Steve Mackay]

Thanks for that. I actually set TMPGEnc running last night converting my file to mpeg2. It should be ready when I get home from work tonight. I used the guide http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html for my settings.

Now I noticed Encore creats and image called .img I was half expecting to see an .iso. Nero doesn't seem to recognise a .img unless I force it. It obviously works because it burns a readable DVD.

I'll have another go at it tonight to see if I can work out my issues.

Thanks again for posting.

Steve