Apple Cinema Tools Inverse TK

For the life of me I can not get proper inverse TK on this clip. I tried several times, I selected a few different A frames, no luck.

Wait a minute... That little check box that you're supposed to leave selected...

Well, since my result is crap, I fall into the category "does not produce the correct result" don't I?

Let's try to uncheck the bugger...

And you know what? That was it! It works! Done clean, beautiful!

Why the misleading? Why oh, why?

Apple Motion Retiming

In Apple Motion, to properly retime footage, import Media, drop into the timeline. Click+Option at the end of the clip and extend to the desired length. (Trim bracket turns into stopwatch.)
Select the Media, open Properties tab. Expand Timing property.  In Frame Blending select: Optical Flow.

When rendering the .mov, don't forget to check Frame Blending.

Adobe Encore Error 11 on BDR Build

Got this dreaded error today building the BD image in Adobe Encore:

Blu-ray Error: "internal error 11 (software internal error: ..\..\Private\GraphicsEncoders\PGProcessor.cpp, line 236)", Code: "11", Note: "subtitle set too close".

The fix is to make sure subtitles have 5 frames or more space between them.  Darn, I thought the belgium sub people had that covered...   Back to Annotation Edit.

Reinhard explained it to me in an email:
Set Gaps to at least 5 frames in "General Preferences".
Use the "Fix gaps" or "Fix gaps end" function for all selected subtitles.
And... It's working! Thank you Reinhard!

- By the way, I like to add a dummy sub entry at the beginning of each reel. That helps with merging tracks and making sure subs are keeping sync - peace of mind if u will. BUT I need to remember to trash them dummies before building. So 5 reels = 5 dummies to delete.

Adobe Encore Specify Link

In Adobe Encore, to select which audio track gets played, right-click on the Menu Button, Specify Link.  Select the Audio and Subtitle track targets from the drop-down menus.

Apple Compressor "3x crash service down" error message

Got several Apple Compressor "3x crash service down" error message while encoding Mpeg2 for DVD.

There are several posts on the subject, but what worked for me was to lower the max VBR to 8.5 (instead of 9)  and check + uncheck the Adaptative Details box.  I also moved the Anti-Alias cursor to 100 then back to 0.  I then re-submitted the batch, and the encode went through.

Does this workaround work for you?