Motion Menus In Encore 2

Newbie and I'm working my way to built my first Encore single chapter DVD. I have a blake menu, I added a Digital Juice Jumback video of 30 sec as an asset. From the Blank Menu. Properties Tab, Motion, I Linked the Jumpback clip. During the preview everything works except the animated background. I'm sure its the newbie in me not doing everything right . . . any suggestions ? ?
Thanks - Video

Thanks for the help,that was the issue and another "newbie shortcoming".
Thanks again = Video

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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?
Thanks,

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.
CS5 allows creation of buttons in AE, but for plain navigation options, I think it is just as easy to add in Encore or Photoshop.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
Here's an adobe tutorial on using AE for EN menus:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0258
From the After Effects help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e45 a.html
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5861618#5861618
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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.
It's a new system CS4, Windows 7 64bit, 2x2.40ghz quad core processor, 24gb ram, nvidfia 285 2gb graphics card - do you need to know anything else?
I've rendered the motion menus without ticking the animate buttons option on the 3 menus I have (it's a wedding dvd - main menu and 2 sub menus with animated thumbnails) and its worked. This is ok as a workaround but I'd really like to be able to have the menu thumbnails animated.
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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]
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Blu-ray Motion Menus in Encore CS4

Okay. Just upgraded to Encore CS4 from CS3. Few nice changes.
Have crashed about 10 times (in one hour) doing simple things like, assigning folders, playing video, adding menus. Can anyone say maintenance release???
Here's a question...
WHY CAN'T I SEE THE VIDEO I HAVE ASSIGNED TO A MENU WHEN I SIMULATE?
This was working in CS3 now it's NOT in CS4. Tried on two different machines, one with ATI card an the other with nVidia!
ADOBE... are you there???

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
I have never had to render out a menu to preview it. We only create motion menus for Blu-ray and only use highlight layers from Photoshop. In CS3, when you right clicked on a menu in Encore and clicked "simulate from here", you would see your highlight layers over the video immediately.
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If anyone knows any differently, I'd love to hear it.
What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
I would thank Adobe for fixing this but, let's face it, this just should have worked in CS3!
Regards,
Darren

Looking for some help regarding motion menus in encore from AE.

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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Encore 2 MOTION MENUs not looping more than 2x

Gidday Neil & techies:
I have created a wedding DVD. Burnt & both original Motion Menus looped forever. Did some alts, re-burnt DVD ... Now, one of the Motion Menus loops 1-2 times, then randomly plays one of the movies.
(Definitely set to 'loop forever'.) I have re-re-rendered the motion menus, etc. etc. Still no luck.
Hmmmm...

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 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?
I've just started to use Encore2, having switched from DVD Workshop 2.
I've got a wedding to author and I've used the useful 'Create Chapter Index' function that automatically creates sub menus. This has worked fine UNTIL I render the motion menus.
There are four menus: 1 x Main Menu, and 3 x Sub Menus.
If I render number 1 sub menu it's fine. It renders all 375 frames (why are there always 375 frames?).
The number 2 sub menu also renders properly.
When I get to number 3 sub menu, it always stops at frame 294 and Encore hangs! Why should this be?
I tried creating another project using the same mpeg file (4.12 GB) but with different menus and the same thing happens!
Any ideas?
John

> why are there always 375 frames?
Assuming PAL (at 25fps) that would be a 15 second motion menu.
> always stops at frame 294 and Encore hangs!
Just guessing: If you used motion thumbnails for chapters or timelines, there could be a "glitch" (corruption) 294 frames into the chapter or timeline the thumbnail video is made from.

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 cs5 motion menus not working when build to flash

Hello my question is this, I have created a dvd in encore cs5. I have created motion menus in AE.
Everything works great when I build to DVD. However when I export to flash my animated menu is working but the buttons (play move, chapter select , extras) do not show up until the animation is complete. Is this a simple fix? or should I make the menus static?

Hmm... what version of the Flash Player are you testing with
(full version, including release number)? You can find out which
version you're using here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507
-Robert

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.
What should I do? Since Encore has rendered motion menus fine for the past few months for me, I'm doubting that it's the Roxio issue. I read somewhere that profiles can get corrupted and can be reset. But I have no idea how to do that. So before I start screwing around with stuff, I figured I would come here and see if anyone has any ideas for me.
Thanks for your help.

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?
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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.)
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408826.html

Templates with motion menus flicker

I have Encore CS6. If I use any of the templates from the library there is a very noticeable around the text on the menu. It's irritating to the point that I cannot use motion menus at all.

Yes, the m2v motion background. This results in the menu being rendered and increases the chances for changes.
I just haven't seen this, and can't imagine what would cause this from an unchanged template.
Is it only the chapter menu? Or all menus?
As an experiment, I'd remove the motion background, or perhaps better, I'd create a new project, pull in one of the offending menus, no motion, add a single timeline, and see if the problem is there. Looking to narrow down the problem.

Blu-Ray Motion menus don't work!

Hey Gang,
I posted this issue before but since I received a very limited response, I'm hoping that someone will respond to this simplier issue.
I created a empty blu-ray project. I placed the Encore Crib Motion Menu HD into the project. The menu provided NO motion even after rendering.
I then created a standard DVD project and performed the exact same steps. The motion menu now works.
I'm running a system with Vista 32 loaded & CS3.
Anyone get the motion menus to work in Blu-Ray?
Please let me know. It will take a minute to duplicate my project.
BTW, I have tried this on two seperate system yielding the same results.
Thanks!
Steve

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
I have never had to render out a menu to preview it. We only create motion menus for Blu-ray and only use highlight layers from Photoshop. In CS3, when you right clicked on a menu in Encore and clicked "simulate from here", you would see your highlight layers over the video immediately.
NOW, with CS4, you must render out the menu after clicking "simulate from here" to see it. VERY annoying but I'm sure Adobe did this for a good reason.
Pop-up menus I am glad to report actually work! We haven't figured out how to create motion pop-up menus yet but I suspect this is not available yet in Encore.
If anyone knows any differently, I'd love to hear it.
What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
I would thank Adobe for fixing this but, let's face it, this just should have worked in CS3!
Regards,
Darren

Bitrate budgeting and motion menus

I'm building a project that has about 8 motion menus that use the same 30 sec..avi in the BG. This project is over 3.5 hrs. now for a DL-9 so every minute matters. Will Encore essentially point to the same asset for the motion menu each time it's used and therefore figure 30 seconds for the motion menus total? Or will Encore use it 8 times and I need to figure 4 minutes total?

Julie Ann.
The quality can easily be checked by running an MPEG-2 export of a small section of the original to test it.
Write this to an RW disc, and play it - this is probably the best way to see what the final quality will look like in the real world without wasting the time it would take to encode 3 1/2 hours and then decide you want to do a 2 disc edition instead!
Re the "dummy" chapter points.
Yes - 2 very close together is what I had in mind, but with 32 chapters I reckon you will be okay anyway. Don't use Dummy chapter points unless you really have no choice - it will mean having to remember this when setting navigation links (I did one recently and thank all the Gods I did a DL-R burn to test, as I forgot to adjust the menus for the dummy CP! That would have been embarrassing at the factory!)
What I mean by "Hidden" is a chapter point added near the place where the LB has to go, not at the end. It would not be listed in the chapter menus, and would not be referred to in any navigation. It would exist solely to give Encore somewhere to place a layer break - and ONLY if you cannot get this set using the Automatic procedure.
There is another nasty Gotcha here as well.
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CS4 Motion Menus

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Has anyone else had this issue - and more importantly - what's the solution? I'm guessing it's simple but I can't find it, and it's a pain having to keep re-booting the compuer in order to swap between the two every time I make a DVD.
Thanks
Mike

That's right. CS4 simply behaves different to CS3!
I have never had to render out a menu to preview it. We only create motion menus for Blu-ray and only use highlight layers from Photoshop. In CS3, when you right clicked on a menu in Encore and clicked "simulate from here", you would see your highlight layers over the video immediately.
NOW, with CS4, you must render out the menu after clicking "simulate from here" to see it. VERY annoying but I'm sure Adobe did this for a good reason.
Pop-up menus I am glad to report actually work! We haven't figured out how to create motion pop-up menus yet but I suspect this is not available yet in Encore.
If anyone knows any differently, I'd love to hear it.
What's fixed and I'm SO GLAD is that during simulation, the SKIP FORWARD chapter button WORKS!!! In CS3, you had to pause the video and then could skip forward. Now, like any other normal program, while the video is playing, you can skip forward.
I would thank Adobe for fixing this but, let's face it, this just should have worked in CS3!
Regards,
Darren

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