HELP!! No Motion Menus!

I am using DVD Studio Pro 2 (version 2.0.5). After recently installing Tiger I have lost the ability to create motion menu's (or to even simulate them in my projects!). When I drag a template menu into the window area, it is displayed, but if the motion button is activated I get sound with no picture (black screen). I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the programme with no success. Any help would be most appreciated.

Ok - I've tried the above and nothing has changed unfortunately. I decided to run "Console" and opened DVD Studio and it came up with this message:
"/Applications/DVD Studio Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/DVD Studio Pro: The function CGContextSaveGState2 is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance. Use CGContextSaveGState instead.
RegisterProcess failed (error = -50)
Could not open communication with oxygene media server"
So there does seem to be a problem here - any advice on what to do with this information? Thanks.

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Need help making a motion menu from after effects. can figure out the import process into encore. I cant get the buttons i made in AE to work. Anyone?

Read this (but don't make your plan till you read the link at the end of the post):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSF49EA5DB-3743-49c2-9831-F66328B192F8.html
The important part is:
"The loop point is used to initially disable the buttons. Until the loop point is reached, the viewer cannot select or activate a button. The menu returns to this point on each repetition, so the buttons are disabled only when the menu is first displayed. For any subsequent repetitions, the Duration is shorter and the start point of all video content in the menu is offset."
So in AE, you create a video (the motion background) that includes the image of the buttons as they fly in. Encore is adding the highlights. AE for a period of time could also create the button layers, but you will be less confused if you use Encore and Photoshop for the menu file itself.
I forgot to give you this help link, which is the Encore help file for working with AE:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
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Hello
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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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

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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.
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Keep in mind not all DVD Players will read DL Media (especially older set top players).
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John
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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....
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Jobbe:
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About Menu Rendering
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Gidday Neil & techies:
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Awesome. I checked out the other thread, and I didn't find the solution directly, but somewhere they mentioned "layers" and I realized how ignorant I was. The background layer was turned on by default, so I couldn't see the video that was playing behind it. I just toggled it off and presto! The menu works.
Thanks again.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:57:30 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Encore 2.0 motion menus not previewing?
Re: Encore 2.0 motion menus not previewing? created by John T Smith in Encore - View the full discussion
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/962166
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Help Customizing Motion Menu

Hello:
I am trying to customize one of the motion menus that came with Encore CS2. Its called Television Menu.em   This is the first time I've tried customizing a motion menu. I've had no problems customizing the non-motion menus, even animating them in After Effects. The first problem here is that I need a widescreen version which of course isn't included. So I took the 4x3 menu and edited in Photoshop by creating an NTCS DV Widescreen 720 x 480 canvas, and then copying and pasting everything from the original .psd file into it. And then put in a nice background that blends with the color scheme. So haven't really changed anything from the original menu .psd file. Saved that out, brought it into Encore, and connected it to the .wmv file that comes with this particular motion menu. Rendered it out as a motion menu. Preview. Nothing!!! No snow on the TV! I haven't even gotten to the steps where I move all this into After Effects to animate stuff in and out, because I can't get the thing to work right in Encore even without doing any After Effects work. Best I can tell, it must have something to do with the fact that I made the .psd part of the menu into widescreen and for some reason, it won't play the connected video file. Sure would be nice if I could find this particular menu in widescreen, but since I can't, I just thought I'd make it myself. Hmmm. I am stumped as to why I can't get past this seemingly simple step. Must be something I don't understand.
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Hi Addison,
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You have to specify parent attribute for children menus which you rename.I hope it helps.
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What is the easiest ways to create motion menus in Encore CS5 w/ After Effects CS5

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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Encore stops when rendering motion menus

I have a pretty consistent problem when rendering motion menus/project and I don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help?
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> why are there always 375 frames?
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I did not watch the whole video.
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IDVD 7.0.2 - motion menus too large, cannot burn disc

Hi there,
Can someone help me out with this. I'm burning a dvd I made for christmas presents, and I need to figure this out before the weekend when I need to hand out the gifts ahh!
I finished the dvd, tried to burn it and get the error that reads basically, "motion menus are too large, adjust and try burning again". All menus have photos only - there are no videos in my menus, this is why I'm confused. Could this mean the songs are too big? - I've already reduced the songs to be 2 min for each menu. I really don't want to create the entire thing again, as I'm really close to deadline and the project is completed. Any ideas?
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Hi
a. try to do a DiskImage and see if it works OK
b. You could try to see what happens if You turn off animation/motion menu
Else it can be a problem needing to be trouble shooted and cured. See list.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Last resort: from Craig: Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
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Encore 2.0 motion menus not previewing?

I have been having some trouble with motion menus...I got a copy of Encore 2.0 several years ago and it worked fine then. I recently had a need for it again so I re-installed it and started a project.
My problem is that even with the video transcoded, added to the menu, and the motion menus rendered, it doesn't show up in the preview. I can hear the audio, but it doesn't show the video. After tinkering with this for a little bit I went ahead and burned a disc, thinking that my problem was just a preview issue. The finished disc also doesn't work. You hear the audio and the buttons and timelines work fine, but no motion menus.
I found a discussion on here a while back about changing registry entries (for when Encore gets hung up on importing) and I had a similar issue. I tried that and it worked. I wondered if something similar may be causing the motion menus not to work.
I should mention that I tried re-installing Encore with no such luck.
Any ideas?

Awesome. I checked out the other thread, and I didn't find the solution directly, but somewhere they mentioned "layers" and I realized how ignorant I was. The background layer was turned on by default, so I couldn't see the video that was playing behind it. I just toggled it off and presto! The menu works.
Thanks again.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:57:30 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Encore 2.0 motion menus not previewing?
Re: Encore 2.0 motion menus not previewing? created by John T Smith in Encore - View the full discussion
Here is another recent discussion... may help (or, of course, may not)
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/962166
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Encore CS4 crash on render motion menus

When I first installed Encore CS4 (Windows 64-bit computer), it crashed every time I rendered my motion menus. I found a thread on this forum from 2009 that discussed this issue, and installed the Roxio patch (or whatever it was called)--that was the recommended solution. After that, render motion menus worked fine so I thought the problem was fixed.
But over the past few weeks, it has started happening again--intermittently at first. But today, every time I go to render a motion menu--with different PSD and MPEG-2 files--it crashes every single time. I am beyond frustrated.
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Here's what I might try.
Start new project (probably after restarting my machine for good measure).
Open a library menu with motion.
Render. Does that work?
If so, I'd look a bit harder at the motion assets. Try an old project that worked, and bring those assets into a new project for motion.
I'd try reinstallng the roxio patch, if it fixed this before. (I don't think was what it was intended to fix, but I wouldn't argue.)
If none of that works, I'd consider a repair install. See number 1 here:
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