Marc, very many thanks. I ended up retranscoding a project at the higher rate - it was only 5 minutes - but it perhaps wasn't a good test, as there wasn't much movement in it. Certainly, a quick look - I need to try it on the TV - didn't reveal any noticeable improvement in quality. But if, as you say, Encore will adjust the bit rate to ensure that the project fits on the DVD - did I understand that correctly? - I guess there's no reason not to always set a project at the highest bit rate possible?
On the replication question, my impression from the Encore Help file was that you couldn't just build an image file on the hard drive, then copy that to a DVD. Did I misunderstand?
Any thoughts re why I might want to use the 'progressive' transcode option?
New question: I haven't yet acquired any dual layer DVDs, but my impression - again from the Encore help file - is that these are not natively supported by Encore, even with the recent upgrade: the Help file continues to talk about building tapes in order to use dual layer DVDs. Or could it be that, if I stick a dual layer DVD in the drive, Encore will just automatically recognise it as a 9.4GB device and treat it accordingly?
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