Encore CS5 turning my 264 menus into MPEG2...why?

Blu Ray authoring on a Mac using Encore CS5.
Video is compressed in Apple Compressor 3.5 as H264 and all is well until I build the project. Encore then takes my 264 encoded menus and recompresses them into MPEG2 making them play back herky jerky and they look like poop. The buttons still work, but the menu's video is unacceptable.
All the other video in the project stays as .264 and looks fine. I have the project set up as H264. Anything I could be missing here (other than the deadline)?

They're legal streams just like all the other H264 files in the project that play back fine.
I can set them to Don't Transcode.
They still come out converted to MPEG when the disc is burned and I can verify this when playing the disc back as everything except the menus shows up as AVC.
I wouldn't even care that much if the files get converted, but they stutter and jitter and generally look horrible.

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I agree with your comments. Any experience with BDR media and 25m rates on players?
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Hello all!
Hoping somebody knowledgeable can give me a hand here!
So, the story is I am creating a video menu for a Blu-Ray project using Photoshop CS5.1 and Premiere Pro CS5.5.
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Hi there, thanks for your input!
I've not had a look at the highlights and stuff like that yet, I've just been trying to get this video to work as a menu background. I will get round to looking at highlights shortly.
I will turn the visibility on and get back to you tomorrow on that - hopefully it will work!
You can already see the Motion Tab in my second screenshot on the far left. I'll post a new screenshot tomorrow if it helps though.
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Jeff,
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Hello,
What is the easiest way to create motion Menus in Encore CS5? I'm creating a motion menu in after effects CS5 and will import as a menu in Encore, but I want to keep the animation, while the buttons will navigate you to the appropriate timelines. I want to keep the animation going throughout the duration of the menu?
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Thanks Stan. Big Help
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:07:23 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: What is the easiest ways to create motion menus in Encore CS5 w/ After Effects CS5
The first link is Encore CS5 help. It is a good beginning. I'm not sure if the tutorial it links to is the same as my second link. The AE help link below is also useful.
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
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http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0258
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e45 a.html
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Allow me to begin by saying thank you in advance for any and all help. Please know I am a marine biologist first and a video editor second so I'll apologize for my elementary questions.
2011 macbook pro, 8gb ram, all working files (connected assets) are on the hard drive, Panasonic BD burner connected firewire 800, Encore CS5
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2) why are there 2 different glitches at the loop points on the menus. Both menus are identical in properties, not in asset connections. As a matter of fact, the chapter menu was created by copy/pasting the main menu, changing the assets, and using more buttons (these buttons were also copy/paste from the main menu buttons but have different links). Also know that in preview, the loop points work just fine and the buttons appear without a problem, but the video quality is diminished as with the main menu.
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I created discs using 2 methods and the problems are identical in both. I burned a blu-ray disc directly from Encore which exhibited these problems. I also made a folder and burned the BDMV file in Toast Titanium Pro 10 and also have these same identcal problems. I did make an .iso file also, but don't know how to test that on a blu-ray disc. I am using BD-RE discs so that I don't waste a lot of money.
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Hi Charlie,
about loop point frezees (black video), no way out, sorry: this is an Encore CS5 bug and we all are waiting for the brand new CS5.5.
Jon Jeddes has tried to find a solution with other sws support but he met lot of difficulties.
About your low definition results, it could depend by many things.
Don't know Media Manager, but, usually, low definitions are related to low bitrates (check yours are at least 25 Mb per second).
Hope this will help.
Ciao
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John Gerard

I think part of the problem is mixing 720p60 with 1080i60 for DVD production. Different steps have to be taken to change HD to SD when encoding to DVD. See: http://www.bellunevideo.com/tutdetail.php?tutid=10

Encore CS5 turning my 264 menus into MPEG2...why?

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