CS4 Dvd Menu Problem

Hi im not that great ant my cs4 master lol but i made a dvd menu and its saved as psd i imported as menu in encore but i cant select the buttons (+) play
(+) chapter "examples" Whats wrong?

(+) play
(+) chapter "examples"
If that is just buttons, it will never work. The (+) is reserved for a button group, whereas the states of the buttons themsleves must be designated with (=1)(=2) and so on on the layers inside the button group.. As Silkrooster said, check the Encore forums and also re-read the help files.
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Dvd menu problem

The dvd menus does not accept custom background images. I can place images in the dvd menu, but when the dvd is rendered all images are gone.
What is wrong with this software? This problem has been written by others, but it seems to be no solution to it.
My images are 720 * 576 pixels jpg.
I will be very happy if someone could give me a clue...

There were several Menu Sets in PrE 9, that did not work properly, when adding a custom background image. One valued contributor, A T Romano, did a full test, and listed each "problem" Menu Set. His report is in a thread, similar to yours on the Menu Sets.
It appears that Adobe corrected those Menu Sets in PrE 10, or at least I have not read of the issue with the latest version. I never did find out why some of those Library Menu Sets (they are just PSD's after all), did not work. It also seems that ATR found a workaround for those, but I cannot recall the details now. This is one of those THREADS, with ATR's comments, and there are several others too.
Good luck,
Hunt

CS4: DVD encoding problem(s) Mpeg2 and avi

Hi,
I have been trying to burn my video files to DVD. After a month of failures and 50+ wasted DVDs thrown in the garbage -- plus countless hours trying to learn the basics, reading the FAQs, trouble-shooting, and losing my patience awaiting technical replies from Adobe (which I now suspect will go unanswered) -- I am out of solutions and waving a white flag.
Problem:
I have two video files. Both were created in Premiere Pro CS4 and exported via the Adobe Media Encoder as MPEG2-DVD high quality files (for NTSC) .
The first Mpeg2 file is 800 MB (41 mins); the other is 988 MB (50 mins).
I have placed the two files into a single timeline, with 21 chapter stops.
The only other file in the entire project is a PSD file for the Menu. It has two buttons, which link respectively to chapter stops 1 and 10.
My results are failure-upon-failure...
Primary question:
When I go to "Build" the DVD, it says the Encoded Size is 4.7 GB ~ same size as the DVD. This displays in the "Disc Info".
Similarly, when I open my "Timeline" properties for that single timeline, it says the duration is 1 hour 31 minutes - 4.7 GB.
Why is the disc a full 4.7 GB when the two video files (combined) are under 2 GB?
Supplementary questions:
My "Flowchart" and "Property" links display the Menu, with the two button links in my Menu PSD connecting to the respective chapter stops.
There are no problems when I click "Check Project," and the project works perfectly in "Preview" mode.
But, when I attempt to test the burned DVD into different DVD players, the Menu doesn't appear and the play defaults to random chapters, then freezes. I can access the menu, but only after the play has started and/or frozen, and I have to do that by clicking the "Menu" button on my DVD remotes. And again, when I hit play on either of the buttons on the main menu, the video files will freeze, which means burning & testing each disc sometimes takes an hour per.
Does anybody have a solution?
I have read and watched several tutorials, to no avail. I have tried burning the Project using large Mpeg files as well as medium Mpeg files, both encoded with 1-Pass VBR, 2-pass VBR, CBR. I have tried widescreen and normal.
I have also tried using AVI files. The two AVI files are respectively 41 mins @ 1536 kbps 720x480 8.68GB; and 50 mins @ 1536 kbps 720x480 10.6GB.
Together, those two AVI files are 19+ GB, which would require 5 DVDs.
What am I doing wrong? What should I be using to burn DVDs - Mpeg-2 or Avis?
When I export from Premiere Pro/Adobe Media Encoder, whould I be exporting as Mpeg2 files or Mpeg2-DVD?
Is it possible that Encore automatically expand and/or compress files, so that the 19GB avi is compressed to 4.7 GB DVD; and the 1.8 GB Mpeg2 "expands" to 4.7 GB?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this project has caused me numerous delays and ruined deadlines and soured me even more on Adobe's video editing product and their truly-awful customer support.
Thank you

As far as the use of premiere pro CS4 with Encore Cs4, do not bother to pre transcode your material. Let Encore do this for you. Leave your files in the original format which I assume was AVI. Instead import your Premiere Pro sequence directly from the project (or export it from Premiere Pro it to encore). As you quessed Encore will try and expand/compress your files for the DVD you are making.
Encore by default trys to transcode for the best quality that will fit onto the media you specify which is why it is setting the output to 4.7 rather than the file size of the video.
You were not specific enough about the nature of the failed copies. One thing to do is to always try testing your project from your first menu to see that it behaves correctly. If you don't want your DVD to start playing automatically make sure you set it to open the Top Menu. Then try a test either to your hard drive (if you can), or to a RW DVD.
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When I create a DVD with a menu using Toast 7, it works perfectly on several DVD players, but not on my LG DR7800 DVD recorder. It plays OK, but there's no indicator on the menu to show which item you're currently highlighting. You have to navigate in the dark. Once again, these discs work perfectly well on other DVD players - it's only on the LG DVD recorder this problem occurs. Can anyone shed any light on it?
PS: LG's customer 'support' department have abandoned me. It seems any problem they can't immediately recognise is answered with "we can't help you". Rest assured I won't buy their goods again...

Not every DVD set top player works identically or as well with DVD recordable technology.
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Heya peeps,
On my main menu (the first one that appears when a dvd is inserted after a quick animation) if i click the button to start the movie and then press root menu the player takes me back to the main menu. However when i goto scene selection for the same movie (the scene selection menu is accessed via a button on the main menu) and choose a chapter then i press root menu it takes me back to the chapter menu. i want root menu to goto the main menu after choosing a chapter from the scene selection menu. please help

m1n1g33k wrote:
i assume then u cannot change the title link for the movie? as in set it to goto the chapter page it was played from
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I recently purchased Premiere Elements 13 for my iMac. It crashes every time I attempt to add a DVD menu template to my project. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I just uninstalled and then re-installed Premiere Elements. When I opened the program, I clicked on Movie Menus from the Tools menu. There were blue bands on the menu thumbnails and I right-clicked on one and selected "download all." P.E. let me know that the files would need 2.5 GB of space and I told it to go ahead and download the files. The download was going fine and it downloaded all 2.5 GB of data. I could see the blue bands disappear from the thumbnails as the download progressed. When the downloading process was over the progress window disappeared. I saw the rainbow colored pinwheel spin around for several seconds and then the program crashed. The next thing I saw was a "Crash Report" with several lines of "computerese" and the message that it would be sent to Apple. I clicked OK and in a second or two a window from Adobe appeared asking me if I wanted to restart the program and send the crash report to Adobe. There was also an option for me to ask Adobe to send me feedback or tips for a workaround or solution to the problem and what came back was the message that Adobe had no workaround or solution to my problem. For each of the previous times the program crashed, I have seen all of these windows that I just described.
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Re: Elements 9..........Web DVD.....Disc menu problem...

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Sudden menu problem in CS4: Running OS10 Mavericks. Anyone got a clue?

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When you create your DVD menus with Photoshop and Encore as described, can these menus be loaded into Premiere Elements 4 or any other version of Premiere Elements and do these menus work in Premiere Elements 4 or any other version of Premiere Elements?
If I cannot go the (=2) highlight route, I have thought about creating a text layer (for the title under the thumbnail), simplifying (rasterizing it), then adding a the frame to that layer, and then coding the layer (=1) highlight. But, I have not done that yet.
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Any one know how to make DVD menu in Adobe Premiere? Only a simple DVD menu is enought. Really appriciate your help. Thanks

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