Scenarist Encoding Problem

[merlin001]

Alright, I've got all my assets prepared (AC3 & DTS audio, English subtitles, & an M2V video encoded with Avid Xpress DV 3.5.4 with a quality of 8.0). My problem is that when I've got everything in Scenarist and try encoding it, it complains about the bitrate being too high. When I pull out the DTS audio, it's fine. Any ideas to avoid this? I've got the DD AC3 track as audio 1 & the DTS track as audio 2 on the same video.

Thanks
David

[jel]

this might help.
from this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37935&highlight=scenarist+maximum+bitrate)

"Well, if the bitrate is too high in the video for even just one frame, this will make your total bitrate too high. If have lots of audio tracks or any DTS tracks (those usually have high bitrates), you'll need to set a lower max bitrate when encoding the video. This value may be slightly incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that the total bitrate (audio, video, and subs) needs to be less than 10.08 Mbps, and this is why Scenarist is giving you an error."

and

"its telling you the m2v bitrate has hit 9.7mbit at a specific point, and combined with 2 audio tracks and 2 subtitles that would push it over. you will have to reencode the movie with a lower max (add the two bitrates of the audio together and subtract that from your current max)"

M2V video encoded with Avid Xpress DV 3.5.4 with a quality of 8.0
i have never used this program so i dont know how easy it will be for you to reduce the maximum bitrate to what you need, sorry but i know it can be set in CCE.
j

[merlin001]

Ok, in Avid Xpress DV I had to bring the quality down from 8 (max) to something lower (7 worked fine). Now I'm trying to get everything working, and I've hit another snag. What I've got is a still menu with 4 buttons: Dolby Digital, DTS, English Subtitles, and Main Menu. When I choose one of the first three, it shows the chosen button color, and apparently freezes (for lack of a better word). I can stop or go back to the main menu with the remote menu button, but that's not the idea. Here's what I've got:
Dolby Digital - English audio 1
DTS - English audio 2
subtitles - English subpicture 1

What I've got for my button commands are:
1:SetSTN audio=1
2:SetSTN audio=2
3:SetSTN subpicture=1;ON
4:LinkPGCN Main Menu

So, any suggestions?

Thanks!
David

[DnGermany]

SetSTN audio=1,linkPGCN main menu.
scroll down a little more after the set streams section, and you should see two check boxes compare and link. choose link and point to where you want the button to go after being pressed. You might have to adjust the window to see it. Or put a post command on the menu like resume or whatever you like.

[lelsteph]

Hello,

I am having the same message...
I have 1 video with 2 audio tracks 1 AC3 448 and 1 DTS 768.
If I remove the AC3 track, scenarist is fine and the film is playing perfectly. When I have the 2 audio tracks scenarist is complaining...

Thanks for any help, Regards.

[merlin001]

What worked for me was dropping the quality of the mpeg2 video export from highest to something a little lower. In Avid Xpress DV, 8.0 is the highest. I've hit this snag twice with 2 different clips. One worked by dropping it to 7.8, but the other I had to drop to 7.5. Play around with the video export and find the happy medium Scenarist likes.

~ David

[lelsteph]

Yes thanks BUT
since it's working with the DTS track which is 768 Mb/s when I play the 448 AC3 I think it should work.
If I have 1 track with 1 of the 2 audio it works. But with the 2 audio in the track scenarist is not accepting to built the DVD.

Do I have, for this type of feature (having an DTS and an 5.1 version) to do 2 tracks?

Thanks

[merlin001]

My DTS stream is 1.536mb/s, and my AC3 is 448. I don't know if this made a difference, but both tracks I encoded with 3.1 channels instead of 5.1. I only had 1 video track with 2 audio tracks (AC3 1st, DTS 2nd). I'm out of ideas, though. If I think of something, I'll post it.

~ David

[Howler]

Hi folks

Please help me i have a big problem making dvd out of avi files,i have made once a good dvd
with selectable subtitles but now i get this message from sonic scenarist version 2.6.0.0218







This is the message:


Info
Info Creating DVD Files
Warning Sub-Picture (stream 1 in Track "Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL_1") is across scene boundary at 00:00:59;22
I have deleted the warnings in between because of the size
Warning Sub-Picture (stream 1 in Track "Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL_1") is across scene boundary at 01:58:59;23
Info No VTS<VTS_1> Language Tracks found
Info Creating DVD data (VTS Title) VTS#01
Info Preparing to multiplex track Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL_1
Info Creating Multiplexer info
Info Encoding subpicture D:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\nl100001.bmp
I have deleted the messages in between because of the size
Info Encoding subpicture D:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\nl100990.bmp
Info Multiplexing
Info Multiplexing VOB Main Stream
Info Reading Database for VTS<VTS_1>

Error The number of program<121> exceeds the max number<99>, PGC<Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL_123>

Error C_PgcInfoTab::UploadFromDB TT_DOM failed
Error UploadFromDB failed. st<-1>
Error VTS Upload failed
Error DVD files could not be created

How can i change the max number of program so i dont get this message,the encoded file is 3,8002 mb and a dvd disc is 4.7
its bigger than the size of the encoded file.