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

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