Button overlays on motion menus question

I've made up a motion menu in which the buttons move from off-screen and into position. However, before they get there the button overlay is already highlighted. I've seen menus like this where the button overlay only appears when the buttons come into their final resting place. Can anybody advise how to do this?

Not sure how you made the overlays or where you set the loop point.
If you make the overlays in Photoshop or Motion and set the loop point to the final resting place, then it should work.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/motion.php

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Having trouble with buttons in motion menus

I'm having some problems with buttons in motion menus:
- I've created a motion menu where some text (button names) fade in.
- I set a loop point after the text has faded in completely.
- I set the end condition to "loop"
(there is some animation after the text fades in that I would like to loop)
- I draw out 5 buttons and assign different overlay colors to each of the button states.
The problem is that each time the motion menu jumps back to its loop point.. the menu seems to stutter - the overlay color on the currently selected button turns off for a second and the button is momentarily disabled (can't be selected). This problem only shows up on the actual dvd build. The buttons work smoothly when tested in the simulator.
I can avoid this problem by losing the animation and just setting the end condition to "still".. but I was wondering if anyone knows if there is something I might have missed or could try as a workaround.
17" powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

This problem only shows up on the actual dvd build. The buttons work smoothly when tested in the simulator.
It could be how the DVD is reading the DVD (sort of the nature of DVD, everything is not exactly the same), because buttons will not show until the loop point and there may be a slight pause from end of animation in the menu to the loop point. And the overlay will turn off briefly when it hits the end.
Visually what you can do is make the animation in a manner so that at the loop point the buttons are part of the background itself and make sure your loop point is at that point (or slightly after) so it looks like the button is there.
For the most part the setting of still may work okay (really a creative call), sometimes listening to the same music/seeing samee animation may be too much (of course it depends on project) and you can jump to the loop point on the menu on subsequent calls

Motion menus/buttons blank out on burn

Trying to make motion menus or video background or buttons with video clip. After building/formatting and burning, the menus don't show up. The screen is white with sound only.
This doesn't seem to be a problem with still menus/backgrounds
Am I missing something?

John
In DVDSP Preferences, in the Menu options change the Final Rendering option from Hardware Based to Software BAsed, or vice versa. That means, change to the opposite you have now selected. Then rebuild your project and chek it.
It's a known pronlem that should be solved this way.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Rendering motion menus from DVD ST PRO

Urgent question regarding motion menus in DVD ST PRO,
I’m creating a DVD including lots of motion menus; on top of my background video I have a template using some overlay shapes from DVD ST PRO. When ”building” the project DVD ST PRO start to render the menus....
The motion video is some good MPEG2 footage from compressor, but is this rendering process during build, a second compression of the already compressed MPEG2 material ... a second compression using the compressor setting from DVD ST PRO preferences? In other words a compression of already compressed material?????
Can I get a better motion menu picture quality by adding my non compressed asset to the project and let DVD ST Pro render and encode the motions menus??? (Only one time)

Jobbe:
From the DVDSP User Manual:
=====================================================
About Menu Rendering
Depending on how you create your standard menus, they may have to be rendered
into an MPEG-2 video asset when you build your project. The menu must be
rendered if it uses any of the following:
• Assets assigned to a button
• Shapes
• Drop zones
• Text objects
• SIF (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2), 1/2 D1, or cropped D1 video
Standard menus that only use a background (whether still or video), an overlay, and
one or more audio files do not get rendered.
Whether the menu gets rendered or not can be important for a couple of reasons:
• The time it takes. Rendering menus is a process that composites all of the menu
elements, one frame at a time, and creates an MPEG-2 file out of these composited
frames. Depending on your system and the length of your menus, this can take a
significant amount of time to process. See “Menu Preferences” on page 115 for more
information.
• Extra processing can affect video. If your menu background video must be rendered,
the extra processing has the potential to change the video a small amount.
Anytime you decode compressed video, process it (such as by compositing shapes
or text over it), then recompress it, you can expect some subtle changes to the
background video. In those cases where you have meticulously encoded your
background video before assigning it to a menu, this extra processing could
noticeably change the video.
When SD menus are rendered, they are encoded at 7 Mbps using the one-pass VBR
method. HD menus are rendered at 21 Mbps using the one-pass VBR method.
=====================================================
Then in those cases you better use a non compressed video as background.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Error Message: Motion menus exceed maximum duration

Our iDVD has one Main Menu with Nine Submenu's. We used the Reflections Theme. All these have motion menus, for consistency. Each is set at a loop duration for audio of no more than 45 seconds. [10X45=450 secs or 7:30 mins]. The menu screeen allows for 8 image drop zones. We put a photo in each zone, and they scroll by repeatedly behind the menu titles/text.
[Each of the Nine Submenus contains one slideshow and one sub-submenu. These sub-submenus are not motion menus.]
When we go to burn the disc, we get the error message above. Our duration on the Best Performance setting is 29:53 mins vs. the allowed 7:30 mins.
Questions: Why does Project Info show motion menu duration at 29:53? Is there a way to reduce that by, for example, limiting the number of times the pictures loop behind the text in that theme? Or, should we be using Best Quality rather than Best Performance? (Note: the images are more important than the sound in this DVD.)
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Mac OSX Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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We couldn't figure out how to turn the motion off on the submenus. How did you do it?
Unfortunately, I've deleted that project, but... You should be about to click on the Menus button and move the top slider (Loop Duration) all the way to the left. I think that does it. I also had to eliminate music too. I don't think clicking on the Motion button on the main window does it.

Motion menus - are there any other kind?

Hello
I am creating a DVD of a memorial service and have chaptered all 15 elements of the service. When I try to burn the DVD, it says that I have too much content in my motion menus.
Question 1: Is there a menu/chapter screen available that DOESN'T require the motion, or that will allow more than 6 chapters per screen (so that I only have to have two instead of three)? I'd be more than happy to have a menu screen with no movement on it.
Question 2: If I can get rid of the motion screens, will it help reduce the size of the DVD at all? I am going to have to burn this on a double layer disc because it is three minutes too long... There isn't anything else to cut out, however.
All I need is a chapter menu that will allow people to go to the part of the service they want to watch... nothing fancy. I didn't even add any picture content in the chapter screens - just video in the main menu screen. (I'm using the western theme for the main menu and the Movie projector theme for the chapter menus).
Thanks for your help!!

Keep in mind not all DVD Players will read DL Media (especially older set top players).
Stay w/in the TV Safe area (shown below). And yes you can have No motion. And it will help .... (see the check box in the hi-lighted area right above the slider)
What about something like this? Might this work for you?
By sdmacuser at 2007-09-30
Changing a motion button to a still image
You can remove the motion effect on a button and make the button show a still image.
To remove the motion effect from a button:
Click the button to select it.
In the Movie pane that appears (shown above), click the checkbox to remove the checkmark.
To change the image on the button, drag the slider until you see the image you want.
Click somewhere else in the menu to close the Movie pane.

Motion menus stopped working

I used to be able to use motion menus, but my last 2 projects, I've been unable to use them. Instead of motion, I see gray screen (but the rest of the menu works, and the text is there). Does the same with the motion preview button (I'm using DSP 3) as with the actual DVD.
Is this a known issue? I have upgraded OS's (but i'm not sure when exactly this became a problem).

I have the same problem and have had no luck searching the net for a solution:(
Instead of motion, I get the gray screen (color of the video background in the preferences).
If I use the simulator, the counter indicates that the video is playing, but the video is masked behind the colored overlay. If I click on a menu button, the video for the motion menu plays for an instant before the button-linked clip begins playing... If I build and burn a disc, this does not happen - that is, the motion menu video does not play for an instant, when a menu button is pressed. Sure would like to resolve this.

Blu-ray Motion Menus in Encore CS4

Okay. Just upgraded to Encore CS4 from CS3. Few nice changes.
Have crashed about 10 times (in one hour) doing simple things like, assigning folders, playing video, adding menus. Can anyone say maintenance release???
Here's a question...
WHY CAN'T I SEE THE VIDEO I HAVE ASSIGNED TO A MENU WHEN I SIMULATE?
This was working in CS3 now it's NOT in CS4. Tried on two different machines, one with ATI card an the other with nVidia!
ADOBE... are you there???

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
I have never had to render out a menu to preview it. We only create motion menus for Blu-ray and only use highlight layers from Photoshop. In CS3, when you right clicked on a menu in Encore and clicked "simulate from here", you would see your highlight layers over the video immediately.
NOW, with CS4, you must render out the menu after clicking "simulate from here" to see it. VERY annoying but I'm sure Adobe did this for a good reason.
Pop-up menus I am glad to report actually work! We haven't figured out how to create motion pop-up menus yet but I suspect this is not available yet in Encore.
If anyone knows any differently, I'd love to hear it.
What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
I would thank Adobe for fixing this but, let's face it, this just should have worked in CS3!
Regards,
Darren

Building menus question

Working on DVDSP 4.1.2, Mac OS 10.5.4, on a MacBook Pro 2.4, 4 gigs ram, I have been building a Main Menu. There are about a dozen buttons that have motion in them from the video track they are linked too.
I wanted on State 1/Normal of the button to have "my title" below the button.
State 2/Selected have the "my title" below the button disappear and across the center of the button have "a different title" appear.
State 3/Activated I am not concerned with because of how briefly it appears screen.
I don't think its possible to do this with a standard menu, so I thought I was going to have to learn about layered menus but it appears layered menus can't have audio associated with them, or have drop zones or motion. Ouch.
I had each of those in the initial mock up. A television runs on the main screen. A drop zone zone gave the television the screen to playback a movie that also has audio. I am not happy about giving those elements up as its part of the feel.
It seems a layered menu is only relaying on the mouse or remote clicks to make them interesting, which seems like it would be hard to do if everything else is still and no audio.
Any suggestions or recommendation would be greatly appreciated.

In Photoshop, type and position "my title" and color it 100% red. Then type and position "a different title" and color it 100% blue. No need to use different layers. Save the file as a PSD, Tiff or Targa. Bring it in as an asset in DVD SP. Select your menu in the outline tab, and in the General tab in Inspector, select the imported file as the overlay file. Create a button, and in the Colors tab in Inspector, choose "Overlay Colors: Advanced", and then "Mapping Type: Chroma". Play around with the opacity sliders for red and blue and you will see your different titles appear.

Encore cs5 motion menus not working when build to flash

Hello my question is this, I have created a dvd in encore cs5. I have created motion menus in AE.
Everything works great when I build to DVD. However when I export to flash my animated menu is working but the buttons (play move, chapter select , extras) do not show up until the animation is complete. Is this a simple fix? or should I make the menus static?

Hmm... what version of the Flash Player are you testing with
(full version, including release number)? You can find out which
version you're using here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507
-Robert

Controlling menu button overlay?

I made a title menu video clip in Motion, with all the text including chapter headings.
I imported it into Studio Pro. I added buttons overtop the text in the video clip. I linked the buttons to the chapters. Everything works.
I added an overlay to the buttons ... mainly for the DVD Players, so the viewer can SEE his\her selections with the remote.
My video clip starts in black, the chapter text headings take 8 seconds to appear. My 'normal' not-yet-selected overlay mode actually shows up as a coloured rectangle (the same colour as the 'selected' mode) where the first button is placed. The text appears later, in the rectangle. So I have a not-wanted colour rectangle in the frame for 8 seconds.
Is there a way:
1. I can have the button overlay rectangle appear later in the menu video clip timeline - when the actual text arrives?
Or...
2. I can somehow have the 'normal' mode in play (as a non-colour, neutral or transparent nothing), until the mouse, or the controller actually 'selects' the chapter text (in the button)? At which point the coloured 'selected' rectangle would appear.
All ears,
Ben

Is there a way:
1. I can have the button overlay rectangle appear
later in the menu video clip timeline - when the
actual text arrives?
Straight through DVD SP, nope (unless I missed something, have not tried all the tricks in DVD SP 4) but you can do it either by (a) some some other editing software like dvdafteredit (thought I saw an article on this once) or (b) some tricks [but the easier way is below in settings :)]
i.) have the clip cut and put the menus next to one another and have it auto jump to the next menu (though you will probably see the jump on most players)
2.) Build subtitles/buttons on a movie track and make that work as a menu
2. I can somehow have the 'normal' mode in play (as
a non-colour, neutral or transparent nothing), until
the mouse, or the controller actually 'selects' the
chapter text (in the button)? At which point the
coloured 'selected' rectangle would appear.
The easiest way will be have the buttons all non-highlighted unless selected (change settings so you do not see the rectangle) .. the only issue is that one button by default is always selected, so you can make an invisible button, and then people will have to press to get to the next buttons, but then they can move around by setting the up down left right buttons not to ever move to the invisible button

Photoshop file error when rendering motion menus in Encore CS4

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I hope someone can help me please?
I've successfully (after 3 attempts) managed to import my PP project into Encore, created the menus etc from the presets that come with Encore (Wedding Garden menu). When it comes to rendering the motion menus with the animated buttons option checked, after a couple of seconds it comes up with a Runtime C error - photoshop file (508) i think it is and it crashes.
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I've rendered the motion menus without ticking the animate buttons option on the 3 menus I have (it's a wedding dvd - main menu and 2 sub menus with animated thumbnails) and its worked. This is ok as a workaround but I'd really like to be able to have the menu thumbnails animated.
Many thanks
Rachel

Thanks v much i'll certainly give that a try -
if it helps - I managed to make a note of the error message after I had sent my initial posting on this topic.
[..\Port\PhotoshopObject.cpp-568]
Thanks again for posting a reply
Rachel

Flash DVD... Motion menus are coming out black

I have previously used the flash output in Encore in CS3 and CS4. First time using it in CS5. I like to use video clips as menu backgrounds and have done it many times before. I link both the video and the audio to the menu in the motion properties window. In CS5, it appears that this function works for DVDs, but not for Flash. When I do the Flash export, the menus are just a black screen with the audio I linked to.

Hey, I figured out a fix. Turns out it wasn't the clip format. Turns out that you must have a button on a motion menu, AND, you gotta have the buttons image eyeball poked out. So in this case, what I'm doing is trying to create a web site using this Flash DVD option. It's a web site that works like a DVD in a Flash player. So that means it's a web site with a full-screen option and a volume control. It allows me to take my motion graphics skills and apply them to web design without needing to know anything about Flash. Check it out:
http://gpiis03.law.stetson.edu/media/on-demand/ci_comp_01/index.html

Blu-Ray Motion menus don't work!

Hey Gang,
I posted this issue before but since I received a very limited response, I'm hoping that someone will respond to this simplier issue.
I created a empty blu-ray project. I placed the Encore Crib Motion Menu HD into the project. The menu provided NO motion even after rendering.
I then created a standard DVD project and performed the exact same steps. The motion menu now works.
I'm running a system with Vista 32 loaded & CS3.
Anyone get the motion menus to work in Blu-Ray?
Please let me know. It will take a minute to duplicate my project.
BTW, I have tried this on two seperate system yielding the same results.
Thanks!
Steve

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
I have never had to render out a menu to preview it. We only create motion menus for Blu-ray and only use highlight layers from Photoshop. In CS3, when you right clicked on a menu in Encore and clicked "simulate from here", you would see your highlight layers over the video immediately.
NOW, with CS4, you must render out the menu after clicking "simulate from here" to see it. VERY annoying but I'm sure Adobe did this for a good reason.
Pop-up menus I am glad to report actually work! We haven't figured out how to create motion pop-up menus yet but I suspect this is not available yet in Encore.
If anyone knows any differently, I'd love to hear it.
What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
I would thank Adobe for fixing this but, let's face it, this just should have worked in CS3!
Regards,
Darren

Flash Video with DVD-like motion menus -- Is this possible?

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video as well as DVD-like still and motion menus. These are
semi-transparent menus and actually are super-imposed over main
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Can this type of a/v synchronization and menuing be done in
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I don't want to write as SWF with menus since clips and # of
menus on screen and placement might be different from video to
video. These are for some training videos.
To give a background, in SMIL I have an application server
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Thanks and kindest regards,
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1) The learning curve for Director is extremely steep. You would be better off hiring a freelancer who already knows the program, then spending all the time learning all the ins and outs of the program.
2) Director is essentially a dead program. Since Adobe acquired it a couple of years ago, they have made no upgrades of the program. Nor have they made any announcements on continued development.
3) The content you develop will only be playable on computers, not DVD players.

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