Scenarist Menu error - Video parameter is different between PlayItems

[emotionboy]

Hi all,

I've followed the instructions at http://bluauthoring.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7 for setting up a standard loop menu, and each video parameter is the same length as it's simply copied and pasted, but for some reason when I start the MUX process I get the warning- Video parameter is different between PlayItems

Does anyone have any idea where I may be going wrong?

[rik1138]

What video parameter is different? It should tell you exactly what is different between them.

Do you have your menu in it already? Make sure your menu is exactly the same parameters as your video (Your menu IG needs to 1920x1080p, if your video is 1080p. It needs to be 1080i if your video is 1080i, etc...)

Take your menus out of the loop and see if just the video by itself will mux, that'll help narrow down where the problem is.

Rik

[emotionboy]

Hi!

It muxes fine without a menu but with a menu it causes a problem.

I do know that with a still image background it works fine.

All video is HD 1080p and no matter what video I use as a playitem it says video parameter is different.

The id identified as having the error is the menu itself (the very top of the menu tree). This therefore seems to indicate that the menu is the problem.

I do know that I created the menu using photoshop at 1920x1080. Based on your comment, I guess I don't know how to differentiate between 1920x1080p and 1920x1080i in photoshop.

If this is the case and you can differentiate in photoshop, please can you tell me how do you do this? Or how can you tell which one your IG is in?

Thanks.

[emotionboy]

And for the record my photoshop menu details are as follows:

Image Size
Width 1920 pixels
Height 1080 pixels

Canvas/Document Size
Width: 6.4 inches
Height: 3.6 inches
Resolution: 300 pixels/inch

[Hase99]

Everything seams to be correct.
Maybe the video stuff is O.K. ...

Just try it:
Start it a new simple and basic project, drag just one asset to the playlist, mux it.
When there`s no error, drag the second asset to the same playlist as you did in your first project...
Do you still get the same error message?

[emotionboy]

Hi Hase99,

I created a project with just a playlist and looping video, no menus. It does mux. I'm not sure how knowing this will help.

[rik1138]

Your menu IG can be set to 1080p or 1080i. If you click on it in the Data Tree and look at the properties window, you should see this setting. The first time you imported the IG (I'm assuming a Designer import?) it would have asked you what video format you wanted it flagged...

I'm guessing it's flagged 1080i if you created it 1920x1080 in Photoshop...

I'm not sure if you can just change that... Scenarist (last time I tried it) wanted you to re-import and rebuild the entire IG. Hopefully they've changed that... If not, you can change the setting manually in the script file, but it might tricky if you've never done that. (BACKUP the project files first before attempting that!!! Even if you think you know what you are doing...)

[emotionboy]

Thanks rik1138, that pointed me in the right direction.

I had selected the video to be 24fps, but it had apparently been put as 23.976fps as far as Scenarist was concerned. I changed the menu from 24fps to 23.976 fps which you can do directly without having to re-import the menu.

Thanks again.

[rik1138]

Thanks rik1138, that pointed me in the right direction.

I had selected the video to be 24fps, but it had apparently been put as 23.976fps as far as Scenarist was concerned. I changed the menu from 24fps to 23.976 fps which you can do directly without having to re-import the menu.

Thanks again.

Ah, forgot about frame rates.. :rolleyes: When importing video, you can't tell Scenarist what to use, it will use whatever the video was actually created at (determined by the metadata in the video file itself). Usually, movies on Blu-ray are 23.976 even if someone refers to them as 24 frame...

But, yeah, things to check: Video Size, interlaced/non-interlace, Frame rate... It'd be nice if Scenarist was a little more specific about the error.:cool: