AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Videotape editing, archiving, and videotape remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews and b-Roll. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Have experience in both video and film. Not too familiar with Hd at the moment although I did operate a B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's.
I Enjoy filmmaking as well and one day I may attempt a feature film in super-8mm although the film Dali, Dali, Dali seems to get longer with each passing month.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
I'm editing on Premiere CS3 and I'm trying to export my final edited video to Encore DVD 2.0.
I put the chapters in Premiere but when I go to File then down to Export but when I go to Export To Encore, I'm unable to select it.
Why is that? And how am I able to fix this?
Answer Hi Joe, I'm going to give you an unofficial answer as I have never tried what you are trying to do.
You may want to first do an experiment in which you take ONE camera shot of a ten or 20 second duration, and see if you can import that into your non linear editing program and then make it into a DVD. If you can, then you know you have a legitimate method for making dvd's and can now proceed to troubleshoot the more complex method in which you try and create a dvd from an existing NLE timeline.
Some NLE programs hold back on giving you all the options because the software companies don't want to directly compete with their more expensive versions of the same products.
An example would be Adobe photoshop, and the 5 times cheaper Adobe photoshop elements. Adobe photoshop allows for conversions to different color schemes such as CMYK, whereas Adobe photoshop elements 6 uses RGB and does not recognize CMYK.
NLE edited program material that sits on a time-line, until it is first rendered and in essence recreated as one file, can give you problems when outputting to DVD. So if you can render the entire NLE project first, Create an entirely new file, and then export that to your DVD program, you may have better luck. The problem with this method is you may be double compressing your video.
Another possibility as to why you are having problems is if you have combined different pixel sizes onto the same time-line, and that can become problematical when one goes to try and output, especially to DVD. If you have a shot with a border on the top and bottom of your screen, and then you have shots that fill the screen from top to bottom as well, these two different video formats no doubt use different pixel sizes and that can really confuse NLE and DVD programs.
To test this theory, If you already have tested your NLE system by using a 20 second, one camera angle shot to create a short DVD and had success, output your non-linear edited master onto a Mini-dv tape via the firewire connection, then reimport that tape for making your DVD's. If that works, then it may be that you cannot go directly to your DVD program because of incompatibilities on your timeline that get removed when you output to tape and then re input back into the computer.
lol, there may be a super short method to solving your problems, but I do know that everything I suggested have caused editors problems in the past.
