2 questions with Blu-ray authoring on CS5

Question

so first up, how do you make a seamless motion menu? just to get my feet wet on this first project, i just want to have a song playing in the background, while it goes through each of the chapter menu pages. i havent tested it on a real player yet, because i'm still tweaking menus, but in the Encore review box emulator, at each page the song starts up again. isnt that part of the blu-ray specification? seamless motion menus? basically what i did was i just set the song as the motion menu audio on the main first menu. and assumed (you know what that makes me) that that would set the seamless motion menu... not so much... so is there anyway to remedy this?
one more thing. i've yet to create the pop-up menu (probably will get to those this weekend), but i'm just brainstorming this, and was wondering if it can be done per blu-ray specification (or even more specific, per EnCS5 specification). the feature has 43 chapters, can i have it set up to where the pop-up is about 11340 px wide by 75-100 px high, and have it scroll through the menu off screen? or does the entire pop-up menu have to be contained within the screen size? i was just envisioning making a pop-up menu that had a link to each chapter, and was 43 links across, and once you got to say the 6 link or so, and hit right arrow, it just keeps feeding more options onto the screen. or would i have to just make like 7 transparent basic text menus in PS 1620x100, with 6 links per menu, and have a clickable arrow at the end of each pop-up linking to the next pop-up that you must press enter on (for examply laid out like this:
Main Menu Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 --> | <-- chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 --> | <-- chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 --> | etc, ect. )
i would prefer it to be just one long continuous menu, that you can seamlessly fly through (picture 'iPod cover flow' from the iPhone/iPod Touch iPod app), but if thats not in the specification, OR if its only compliant with BD-J, then is the second scenario (th one listed above) possible with Encore?
BTW: project destination is a BD-R DL because of how much footage i have, i had to succumb to the DL, so menu size should not be a problem at all as far as storage concerns.
i guess thats all for now.
-andrew

Answer 1

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i just want to have a song playing in the background, while it goes through each of the chapter menu pages. i havent tested it on a real player yet, because i'm still tweaking menus, but in the Encore review box emulator, at each page the song starts up again. isnt that part of the blu-ray specification? seamless motion menus?
You need to have a multi-page menu for a seamless playback.
Steps:
1. Import your menu and open it on the menu editor
2. Menu ->Add New Page
3. add all the chapter buttons
4. Cretae a previous button and link the page to main page
(repeat step 2-4 if you want more chapter menus, you also need to add Next button and should be linked to next page)
4. Now add your audio to the menu
->you can get a seamless playback now. Encore simulator doesn't support multi-page preview support, so you need to verify this on any BD player only.
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one more thing. i've yet to create the pop-up menu (probably will get to those this weekend), but i'm just brainstorming this, and was wondering if it can be done per blu-ray specification (or even more specific, per EnCS5 specification). the feature has 43 chapters, can i have it set up to where the pop-up is about 11340 px wide by 75-100 px high, and have it scroll through the menu off screen? or does the entire pop-up menu have to be contained within the screen size?
Again, you can achieve this using Multi-page menu.