PreE Templates to Encore

Does anyone have a step by step tutorial on how to "transfer", for lack of a better word, PrE Menu Sets. Converting those and even cleaning them up for use in Encore....
Thanks!
I have PreE 8, and now Master Collection cs5......

Thank you SO VERY MUCH!! this is exactly what I meant, and I needed!
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:19:43 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: PreE Templates to Encore
PrE Menu Sets are but PSD files, however, they have slightly different naming conventions for the Button Layer Sets, since PrE does the authoring in a semi-automatic fashion. Also, they have the text for all Buttons in every supported language. You only need the language of your system.
The easiest way to "convert" those Menu Sets to the exact conventions used in Encore is to Open one of the two Menus (I'd start with the Main Menu to keep things simple to start) in PS, with the Layer Sets twirled Open. Go through each Button, and just Delete the Layers with the additional languages. This is not mandatory, as long as you change the Visibility of the ones that you need to the correct language, but it WILL tidy things up, and for the next step, you will appreciate that. Now, also Open one of the Encore Menus (choose one that has many of the same Buttons) in PS, and look carefully at the naming conventions of that Menu. You will see some other characters in the PrE version. Change those to match the naming conventions in the Encore Menu. Many of those characters help PrE decide which Buttons will be needed in the semi-automatic authoring. Encore will be lost with some of those. Use the Encore Menu as your guide.
When you have Deleted those extra characters, and checked that you have added any necessary for Encore, do a Save_As from PS, to a separate folder. Repeat for the Scene Selection Sub-Menu. The PNG's will not be needed, as they are in PrE, so I would not bother with those.
Check carefully that you have the correct settings for Standard, and WideScreen, so that the PAR's are correct for your Projects. Note: many PrE Menu Sets are designed for PAL, so if you are in NTSC-land, you will want to check how these Menus behave in an NTSC Project. Most are designed to just Crop in NTSC, and the design elements are within the Cropped area. PrE does this automatically, if one is doing an NTSC Project, but Encore has no automation, so watch for issues there. If you ARE in NTSC, I would actually Crop in PS to make sure that everything matches my Projects. I'd also make sure that I had a Wide and a Standard version, if one does some 16:9 and some 4:3 Projects. In Encore, choose the correct one, so that the PAR will be correct.
When all is done, and has been tested, just Move that folder, with your edited Menus, to the Encore Library folder hierarchy. I have one sub-folder, Hunt, in which I have all of my created Menus, and Templates, with their Assets. When I am in the Library Panel in En, I just choose it from the drop-down. For me, I only work on NTSC Projects, so will create my Menus with that in mind. If needed, I will create both a Widescreen and a Standard version. I also make sure to NOT have any spaces in my Menu names, and use the underscore (_) instead. Also, I keep the Menu file names pretty short too. Those in PrE are rather long, and many characters can usually be removed from them, and still have a logical name.
Also remember that in Encore, if you need, say 4 Sub-Menus, you will need to include all 4 in the Project. Back in PrE, the necessary number will be generated for you, based on the number of Chapter Markers in the Project. In Encore, you do that work.
Good luck, and hope that this helps,
Hunt
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