Make my After Effects composition into an Encore menu... How?

I'm new to After Effects, but have had a fair bit of experience with Encore. I've managed to create a rather cool looking menu in AE for a DVD i'm going to create in Encore, but it is obviously an AE composition, which consists of a Photoshop layer and a video layer. I know how to add buttons etc. for Encore in Photoshop/AE, but what I can't figure out is how to take the composition I've created in After Effects into Encore and have it as a menu?
What I have created is fairly simple. It's just one Photoshop layer (excluding the buttons ofcourse) and a single video layer, manipulated in 3D space so it appears as though it's showing on a TV screen in my Photoshop image. I've seen tutorials for creating a simple video button in Encore, but what I'm doing is somewhat more complicated as the video layer is blended in with the Photoshop layer in After Effects, so I can't link to it separately.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance...

Moving backgrounds to menus need to be imported into Encore as video files unless you are able to use Dynamic Link to streamline the process (I don't have DL so can't help with practical advice).
If you are animating the button images, you will not be able to use them as buttons until you transition into the Encore menu itself.
There's a video tutorial on animating menus in After Effects either on a DVD in the box or on line at http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

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Hello everyone
I am using CS5.5 Master Collection and I have Premiere sequence which I have imported into After Effects via Dynamic Link; I have added some effects etc... Now I am trying to pull the sequence back into Premiere which I have done via Dynamic Link (import after effects composition), which imports the composition fine, however it wont allow me to add the composition to the timeline. It will however play the composition in the source window.
Has anyone else come accross this and how do I fix it?
I have tried looking on youtube and I can see it working for others and no one specifically shows or does anything different to what I am doing.. Please help me.
Kind regards,
Milan

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- import that after effects sequence
which is essense, would be a link back around back to a premiere pro sequence, so it's been dynamically linked twice.
It would be interesting if it did allow it, you could do some weird looping stuff, or probably blow up the software .
Remember, whatever you send over to AE in this method is "replaced with after effects composition", you aren't going to be able to "edit" it back in Premiere. You replaced that edit with an AE composition. You have to work with that in mind.
The main thing about dynamic link is it elimates exporting & importing to get to another program, by just using the project file itself instead as a clip.
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Audio Troubles wiz after effect composition file throught encore.

So i run the CS3 master collection. Got a server dual core xeon 3ghz,4GB of ram and a 7800 GT Geforce video card.
My trouble started when i wanted to make a commercial DVD for some customers.
Been creating and editing videos assets, animated menus in after effects(i kept low setting to be sure i would have enought ram memory to run it then in encore. Until there everything was fine.
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The DVD by itself including menus, transitions and video footage are supposed to be 2.9 GB once the asset are transcoded (DVD is not even full).
Now it took me an insane amount of time before i could render some preview version of it. After running computer all nite long, finally get it burn, but keep on being freezed for long time when it came to get files transcoded in the building process.
Anyway after getting dvd burned, went to check on it and some part of the dvd, (video assets mainly) had missing soundtrack, or get soundtrack from transition assets.
So now i am extremly frustrated and ********* at Adobe, don t know what to do. Even think that Adobe Dynamic Link is the biggest joke ever... Can t even run after effects and encore together... So when they said on the CS3 master collection box that requirement needed is 1 to 2 GB of ram, i cannot beleive it.
For now the CS3 master collection might work on the paper but not on my computer...
Anyway if anyone would have the same audio problems and found a solution to it plz share it. It would save me from angry customers...
Cheers.
Arno.

So tried to render the project by taking off one RAM stick from the computer (renaming my after effects files and redoing my encore composition also with an other name) and did work (still did it with vista business as the OS tho, because I ve seen Neil's post to late and already format the computer , couldn't be bother to redo it to put an xp version :p ).
Cheers for that.
By the way I did READ the system requirements and they say : "Microsoft windows xp with sp2 OR windows vista home premium, BUSINESS, ultimate, or enterprise"... after I reckon they also say "certified for 32-bits editions" but if it not 100% certified for 64-bits edition why do they put Vista business on it ???
It's also right on the box : "more RAM recommended when running multiple components". Anyway I m not a computer specialist, and obviously differents setting must work better than others. Also, I won't take my computer retailer advice for granted anymore because they tried to make me buy heaps of components to run it when finally it wasn't a matter of boosting the computer...
Anyway thanks you all for your support, it's been precious, really appreciate it, I am now an happy Adobe customer again :)
PS: To come back at my initial sound troubles, it vanished when I renamed my After effects compo and redo my encore project.
Cheers,
Arno.

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Jim,
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About the other...,.
Also are you sure were talking about the same thing? I'm talking about opening only After Effects then File - Import - Premiere Pro project. When I do this everywhere there was an AE comp in my PR timeline. It is now missing. Even if manually replace it with AE comp in AE, it has no idea where the media is. I have to manually re-import every AE project and stick it back in the timeline.
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Also Jim if you still say this works for you, would you mind if I uploaded a .prproj with say one piece of media, then a simple AE (only titles or solids) would you mind checking it on your version of AE?

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Fuzzy,
I have now tried what you told me (and some more), without any success;
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I have now tested with other footage, An MPEG-clip from my Sony (.m2ts) - this works well, both when I copy and paste, and when I use the "Replace..." within PP. The clip can be played in timeline without any problems.
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No such animal, I'm afraid, though it would be nice. You have a couple options:
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note:
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I am running Windows Vista x64 Ultimate, 8GB ram, CS4
Message was edited by: bobbymacadobe - added system info

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