I get that error when I try to open a project from a few months ago.
Monday I created a new project and whenever the mouse went over the project window I got a General error. Later I got a "unable to initialise drawing enfironment" error.

I created a new project with the same media as the first example this morning, I try to save, and it hangs. (media is one video file, one audio and one subtitle .txt)

I have a call out to our IT staff since Friday. I do not have admin rights so I cannot reinstall it myself. (yeah yeah I know they have control issues and are headed by old mainframers).

I just looked at the preset folder and the .vpr files are now called .vpr.REJ

what is that about?

Win XP Sp2
Pentium D 3.00 Ghz
2 gig Ram
one sys drive
one media drive.

Well,

I just went thru and renamed the .vpr.REJ files back to .vpr

Started Encore, went to open the older project, got an error for each and every preset.vpr file and it wouldn't load. went back and looked and the .vpr files were once again vpr.REJ

tech tried "repairing" the software via remote, didn't work, It rebuilt the preset folder, but still the same errors.

No one else has had or has a similar problem? I'm wondering if MS pushed something in an update or if it was our technogeeks (never ones for testing on anything more than a base system)

nobody has had a similar problem with encore 2.0?

still waiting on our IT dept to come to life. guess the issue is a local one.
I will post back if I ever get this figured out.

Did you find any solution to this problem?

I ran into the same problem, today on a fresh install of windows xp pro sp2 and fresh encore 2.0 install. All updates from Microsoft and adobe installed.

No solution yet. I think IT has abandoned me.

Even though they deny it, I believe its a conflict created by one of their policies pushed out on the network, or a windows xp update. they think its a hardware issue since they saw errors with the burner in the log. funny though it still burns fine with other software, and I didn't have the issue while burning, but on start up of the program, and how would a burner issue prevent a wav file from playing within the program when it plays find outside?

all questions, no answers.

when I can't provide something the Chief Justice wants, then whose issue will it be?

Crap...

Sonic Dvdit works just fine, but not used to it so it takes time...especially with the psd menu's.

The thing is that its the same problem om my laptop.
Both run about the same software setups and Adobe Encore is the ONLY thing not working as it should.

Frustrating as hell since i'm making a promo dvd which might be published together with a magazine in a respectable number up here in the cold north...and using Dvdit is not tempting at all.

So not being an hardware issue i might call adobe tomorrow and hear what they say.

so just to be clear, you had it working, then it stopped? and you get the .REJ extensions?

I originally got Encore so I could subtitle easily, as a state government agency I have to closed caption all videos to comply with the American with Disabilities Act. So right now I am dead in the water as far as DVD distribution goes.

I bugged IT this afternoon, but am out on a shoot tomorrow so I won't know anything until next week.

But something you said made me wonder if the problem is an SP2 update patch that was installed. I don't have admin rights on the PC in question so not sure if I can remove them myself. I think I can with CCleaner.

If they cannot figure this out, I will have to change programs and getting up to speed will take some time.

sorry for the ramble, long story short, maybe try removing the latest SP2 patch and see if it resumes working.

Christian,

did you find a solution? I'm still talking with IT about admin rights on this pc. sheesh!

Still haven't determined what caused the issue, but it has been resolved. Uninstalled some non essential software, installed all windows updates, uninstall Encore, reinstall, and it appears to be working, though a bit slowly at times, but the PC in question is on the network so that may have something to do with it.

Funny no software had been added after it was working before, nothing had changed, intentionally on the system, but it does appear that there was some conflict.

back to work.

Forgot to check back...sorry.

I've been emailing back and forth with Adobe in Norway and haven't actually come any closer to a solution.

I've installed Encore 2.0 on my laptop to and it suffers from the same problem.

Adobe suggest some kind of sw conflict with some of the following sw:
Roxio
K-Lite codec pack
DVD it
AVC Streaming Filter Driver
Creative AC3 Software Decoder

The thing is that all of this have been installed since i got the pc, but maybe in newer versions and so on for the year i've been using this pc.

On my laptop it's about same software installed, but with a different Roxio software and no Creative drivers. Appart from that identical, both Xp Sp2 patching and software setup.

And they also mentions that there might be a problem having Windows Media player 11 installed as Encore 2.0, although i almost suspect this is a "buy CS3 to solve it argument"...

So I've now emailed back and specifically asked if there is any know problems with Encore 2 and Microsoft patches. So i will have to wait and see what they say about that.

Still having to use DvdIT which is a pain in the.....when you're used to the Encore interface, but it works for the preview dvd's I have to make now.

Christian,

thanks for checking back. We did all the MS updates including IE7, and just this morning when I clicked on an mp3 it had to "validate" for Media Player 11 which it installed. now after your post I need to fire Encore up and see what happens. I only had Media Player 10 on this machine before.

Which reminds me, I've only got IE6(using firefox) and WMP11. I'll give the IE7 possibility a go....

it worked fine today.

so MP11 and IE7 didn't do it any damage.

I thought i should share my problem....or solution to it, or what worked in my case.

The problem seem to be I had installed Adobe Encore 2.0 and then K-Lite Codec Pack with the mpeg2 codec to. That for some reason seem to cause problems for Encore, or it's the ffdshow, I'm not sure with ffdshow though just dropped it.

So the solution was to uninstall K-lite, uninstall Encore 2.0 then install Encore 2.0 and K-Lite at the end. But skip the Mpeg2 parts, and I skipped ffdshow to just to be sure and i don't need that either.

Interesting. We did what I said, uninstalled everything I didn't need, Uninstalled Encore 2.0, did all the updates to XP, reinstalled Encore and it all worked. (one interesting thing, before when we reinstalled Encore the Install app didn't want to run, after we did all the updates it ran fine and has been chugging along ever since).

We recently added the Klite codec pack, but I just ran encore yesterday and it worked fine. We actually had to install the Mpeg2 part since I couldn't watch the DVD I created on this machine. Now that was weird, but like I said it all seems to be working now (knock on wood!)

I had the same problem with the installer, actually I had to copy the folder where the encore 2 installation files are over to my desktop to get it going.

I think multiple mpeg2 codecs might have been the problem in my case, but not entirely sure if thats the case. In addition to K-lite pack i had Sonic dvd it, Roxio Cineplayer installed....so that might have caused one or two conflicts.

Well after running fine for just over a year, the same problem is back. Error loading transcode presets.

Tech and I went round and round yesterday ( most of us are barred from installing and uninstalling software so I need him) the Install disc worked fine, but we have not resolved the problem. Unistalled the Encore software, unistalled the sonic record now program, unistalled k-lite, reinstalled encore, still the same errors.

Nothing has been added to the machine, nor removed. In fact I just authored a DVD with it last week, and it worked smoothly. then I got a request from an office for an older project, went to open it, as I couldn't find the master on the shelf, and viola! error loading transcode preset popped up.

and the tech is now on vacation for more than a week so its' "dead in the water" time.

I can rename the .vpr files to get rid of the .REJ extension but I cannot re-install Encore so my options at troubleshooting are extremely limited.