You know how you can sometimes hear a loud 'blip' when you turn on an amp if the volume is turned up, particularly with older amps? Well, I'm hearing the same sort of thing between some chapters when I burn to Blu-ray. And I hear the same thing on two Blu-ray players. Here's what I do:
- Drag various chapters into an Encore Timeline. These chapters have been prepared so that they don't need transcoding.
- Separate the chapters by blank sections of 1-2 seconds duration. This is to give a black image between chapters. Call them spacers. I made a decision not to include spacers inside the chapters because I thought it would give me more flexibility. So, if I want 5 seconds of black, I can do that by separating two chapters by five seconds. If I want only 2 seconds between other chapters…
- When I play the chapters in Premiere, Encore or by opening the individual M2TS files after burning, there are no blips.
I was a bit sus about using spacers. I thought: "There's no video and no audio there. How's Encore going to handle that?" It seems to handle it okay apart from these blips. And they don't occur for every spacer, just some.
QUES 1
Is it undesirable to separate chapters in a timeline to put black between chapters? I couldn't find anything in the manual warning against this.
QUES 2
Could this problem be caused by the chapters not requiring transcoding? i.e. because Encore is not transcoding across the boundary from one chapter to the next, sometimes there is a discontinuity in the audio at the boundary and this causes blips.
QUES 3
Would it be better to generate a black video in Premiere, with no audio, import that into Encore, and use that as a variable-length spacer? There would then be no gaps and I assume that would stop the blips.