General Errors in Encore

Quick tip for anyone building dvd’s in encore. It is a picky little bitch, it is always good to use an external encoder like adobe media encoder or episode (mac) to pre-render files into mpeg2 format instead of using the transcoder in Encore. Also render the sound files separately where you can, the quality is better sometimes. If you’re getting a general error when you try to build and burn the projects, it is sometimes because one of the  sound or video files has been encoded differently to the others. Encore won’t tell you which one, because its helpful like that.

Settings I’ve found useful are for video:

and for sound

at the end of the day it really depends on how much your trying to squeeze into a shiny disc. I hear dvd studio pro is easier but I have never been able to use it.

Jason