PrEL 7 - Motion Menu Templates Disappeared...?

I am using Adobe Premiere Elements 7, and I had my DVD project all ready to go, then I went to burn the disc and I crashed. Of course, I saved before trying to burn, so I just rebooted the system and started the program back up. However, now the motion menu I used (a pretty waterfall scene with nice mist and stuff) is showing as "Media Offline". I rebooted several times and it is still not there. Will I need to reinstall the program, or am I just missing an easy fix?
Thanks.

I don't see an "AV" files, or any file names containing "AV". There are 18 .PNG image files, 4 .PSD image files and 2 .MPG movie clip files. I looked on the Installation DVD and that is the same files listed there.
The file names of the .PNG files seem to correlate with language options, i.e. DE for german, US for english, JP for japenese, etc. They all have names like this:
en_US_waterfall_mist_pal_s_mmpng_prv_mm.png
en_US_waterfall_mist_pal_s_smpng_prv_sm.png
The .PSD files are as follows:
waterfall_mist_pal_s_mm.psd
waterfall_mist_pal_s_sm.psd
waterfall_mist_pal_w_mm.psd
waterfall_mist_pal_w_sm.psd
The .MPG files are as follows:
waterfall_pal_s_bg.mpg
waterfall_pal_w_bg.mpg
I tried to link each of the .MPG files using the "Browse" option in the menu template editor, but it said neither of them were valid files for that purpose. Is it one of the .PNG or .PSD files that I am after?

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How do I get the Adobe Motion Menu Templates to work . . .

Seems like a simple question. I downloaded my "Adobe Gift" and placed them in a new folder in the Library.
When I open an Encore 2.0 project these new menu templates do show up. But when import them in the project they appear but the motion is disabled (even when I preview it).
So, how do I get the motion to work in the motion menu templates?
Thanks. Roy

You have to render the motion menus before they will play.
-Jeff

Menu template disappears in DVDSP

When I place an apple menu template it Disappears from the DVD menu or even simulator leaving a black screen with the sound track .
Please Help

I am having the same problem with the Theater Marquee and Theater Interior templates. (I am still using DVDSP 2.) When I select the Start/Stop Motion Menu button or try it in the Simulator, I get the buttons and the title, but none of the other graphics. The graphics actually appear for a brief moment, then disappear, then reappear for a brief flash when I select a button.
Did the answer above work for you? It's a little confusing to me.
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I have a problem with motion menu. If I choose motion menu from Encore Library and put together with my videos, all is function OK. But if I put audio (MP3) to menu background, after 10 second motion menu disappears and remains buttons and background music. I have installed all patches. My system is Windows Vista Home Edition with patches applied.
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>prefer to play all music not only 12 second
There are things that are not allowed according to the DVD specification (such as having one audio continue play when you click a menu) so I will GUESS this is one of those... you simply must make all parts fit to the same parameter (you can't pour 10 pounds of flour into a 5 pound bag)

Change color in an Encore motion menu background

I am thinking about using an existing Encore menu but I would like to take the moving background which is shades of blue and change it to shades of another color. I've done this in PS for fixed backgrounds by right clicking and sending the menu to photoshop.
However I am not sure 100% on how to do this for a pre-built menu with motion? I assume it is some kind of workflow of adding the menu to an Encore project and then sending the video from that timeline (as a video track not a menu?) to Pre Pro and using color tools there to replace color, etc.....then rendering it with an appropriate codec and somehow marrying it back with the original menu buttons, etc. in Encore..
Just not sure how to make that all happen! Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
BJBBJB1

You are on the right track. A Motion Menu uses a Video Asset (and maybe an Audio Asset too), for the motion.
All you have to do is create a Video Asset, or modify an existing one, Import that into Encore as an Asset, and then use the Pickwhip to link to that for the Motion Menu Background.
Once, those Video Assets for Motion Menus were WMV files, but in those days, Encore was ported for the PC only. Now, with X-platform capabilities, the format is M2v.
I would take the Motion Menu Background Video into PrPro, adjust the colors, and change it, in any way you need, then Export that for Import into Encore. If you have used a Menu Template, then there will be an existing Motion Menu Background Video already associated with it. Just use the Pickwhip to change that association.
Good luck,
Hunt

Drop Zones in DVDSP menu templates

I like to occasionally use the menu templates that come with DVDSP. One thing that frustrates me is the quality of the playback video in the Drop Zone of the template. The image has a somewhat jagged/blocky look to it. It is not as smooth and clear as the original m2v file. Is this an encoding problem? What can I do to correct this situation.
The original work is done in FCP5 and then encoded to m2v using the Quicktime Conversion options. I usually chose the settings for a 6 bit target rate with a 7 max, one time VBR, and "Better" motion detection.

What David said - any footage on a menu that includes other shapes or items from the palette will get encoded to MPEG2. If you have already used MPEG2 as the source footage then DVDSP will pass it through another enocde process, and you will lose quality... your best bet therefore is to use .mov files in this case.

Motion 3 templates into M5

I want to bring in the Motion 3 templates into Motion 5. Alas didn't bookmark prior reading. I don't even care that they show up as templates within M5. (altho that would be nice.) I have 2 computers - one with M3 and one with M5. Somehow a year ago I was able to bring over the entire CURVES Template folder from old computer onto new and can access it within Motion 5. I have opened the Slider Template in M3 and saved as a Motion file and opened it in M5 and it worked. I can open/save and will do so if that is the best way.
but how on earth did I get the entire Curves folder? Where is it housed on my Mac running 10.7.5?
TIA for any help at all.

Motion 5 will open any Motion project back to at least version 2.0 (I've done it!)
The Curves folder and all the other basic Motion Templates from Motion 3 (and 4) are located in:
Root hard drive > Library > Application Support > Final Cut Studio > Motion > Templates. Some of those templates have already been updated by Apple and are available with "Additional Content" in Motion 5 (Motion menu > Download Additional Content; examples: Skyline, Snap, Vine and a few others). A good number of the older templates are designed for standard def projects and will require adjustments to upgrade to HD (there's a method in Motion 5 to set up "Snapshots" to adapt projects to other aspect ratios, etc.)
All older Motion projects are "basic" Motion Projects. They can be turned into FCPX generators by selecting Publish Template and in the save/publish dialog, check the Publish as Final Cut Generator, then creating or selecting a Category and supplying the name.

File Not Found Error When Rendering Motion Menu

Hi there.
I'm attempting to render a motion menu and keep getting the error "file not found". All of the necessary files are available and no specific missing file is mentioned.
The background video is a .m2v, and there is a .wav audio file too. They are 42 seconds long.
I tried other Encore projects and 2 others are doing the same thing, or coming up with a 'General Error'.
I have cleaned the Database in the Media Cache. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Encore. There are no updates available.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
David

Yeah, it would have taken me quite a while to redo the menus completely! So I was very thankful for the save to menu template option.
When I (not recently, thank goodness!) have a project I suspect of corruption, I create a new project, and just "import as menu" from the old menu subdirectory. The method you used deletes the menus, so exporting the menus helps.
Mac OS 10.6.8
That's Snow Leopard, right?
Actually, I'm not really sure about Encore terminology (this was my first project), but the only motion I have in my menus is the line that appears under the button text when that button is highlighted. At one point I had the photo buttons (for videos) set to animate, but I removed that option.
A highlight is just a highlight, not "motion." Animated buttons, when rendered as the menu, are actually a video background, so that was a motion menu.
All 30 slideshows are actually individual video timelines. They were created and exported from Photosho Lightroom 3.
In Encore terminology, those are just videos - many Encore users choose to do slideshows as videos.
I had originally tried creating each one as a slideshow from within Encore, but I was DEEPLY dismayed by how slow Encore became, evetually locking up at least once per hour. It was ridiculous, even taking into account the fact that it is not a 64-bit program. I planned to leave 2 of the songs as Encore slideshows (Lightroom can't do Pan/Zoom), but in the end I had to replace them with mp4s because the slideshows just would not play. Really, it was about 11 wasted days plus 4 productive days to get me through the project!
Encore has a variety of problems with slideshows, but I suspect from your description that you were using very large images. Scaling them down a bit can improve performance.

Premiere Elements 13 problem with DVD menu templates

I recently purchased Premiere Elements 13 for my iMac. It crashes every time I attempt to add a DVD menu template to my project. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I just uninstalled and then re-installed Premiere Elements. When I opened the program, I clicked on Movie Menus from the Tools menu. There were blue bands on the menu thumbnails and I right-clicked on one and selected "download all." P.E. let me know that the files would need 2.5 GB of space and I told it to go ahead and download the files. The download was going fine and it downloaded all 2.5 GB of data. I could see the blue bands disappear from the thumbnails as the download progressed. When the downloading process was over the progress window disappeared. I saw the rainbow colored pinwheel spin around for several seconds and then the program crashed. The next thing I saw was a "Crash Report" with several lines of "computerese" and the message that it would be sent to Apple. I clicked OK and in a second or two a window from Adobe appeared asking me if I wanted to restart the program and send the crash report to Adobe. There was also an option for me to ask Adobe to send me feedback or tips for a workaround or solution to the problem and what came back was the message that Adobe had no workaround or solution to my problem. For each of the previous times the program crashed, I have seen all of these windows that I just described.
One other thing: when I re-opened Premiere Elements after the crash, I looked at the movie menu thumbnails and the blue bands were not there any more. So it seems as though Premiere Elements "thinks" they have been downloaded. If so, where are they and how do I use them? And how do I prevent the program from crashing?
Feel free to ask me any questions you want to, especially if they will help solve this problem. One reason I bought this program is that I want to make DVDs with menus and chapter selection buttons. I have been using iDVD, but Apple no longer supports it, and it does have a few bugs I have had to work around. I also have DVD Studio Pro, which came with Final Cut Studio a few years ago (before Final Cut Pro X) but it is not very user friendly. I also have Final Cut Pro X, which has the option of authoring DVDs, but doesn't have the DVD menu template options that are in iDVD and DVD Studio Pro.
Thanks for your attention and help.
bha51

Motion Menu Presets

Hi,
I like to create Motion Menu presets as described in the documentation. I created a video layer in Photoshop. After a while I found out that I have to save the templates from Encore and not Adobe and in the menu.
Unfortunately, when I use my newly created presets, I don't get the m2v files automatically import and linked to the menu in Encore and so the motion effect is gone. How can I create these templates that the work like the shipped ones?
Regards,
Claus

I created a video layer in Photoshop.
The traditional method: you do nothing in Photoshop for a motion background (unless you are talking animated buttons). You select the video (and separately audio) in Encore and add it to the menu. Encore takes the "Background" layer from the menu and uses the motion video instead.
Photoshop now has some video capabilities (and then those changed, right?), but I think you're only asking for trouble to try to add motion inside photoshop.
Unfortunately, when I use my newly created presets, I don't get the m2v files automatically import and linked to the menu in Encore
To make a template from your menu, you export as template from Encore, add back to the library is you wish, AND the motion video (m2v) must also be saved to the library (or other location) to be available when the menu is used.

Bad audio in motion menu

I've got a small video I want to use for a motion menu. But I've run into an issue with the audio being filled with a lot of static. The audio is fine in FCEHD, and sounds fine in QuickTime Player, but sounds really bad in DVDSP4. The clip is only 30 seconds long.
Could this be an issue with the length of the template (I'm using the TheaterNTSC_Peoplepj.mov template)? I've set the duration to 30 seconds from the default for 42. Also, I've used compressor to create the .m2v and .aiff files.
Anyway, I'm new to all this and am probably doing something stupid, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

The audio is fine in FCEHD, and sounds fine in QuickTime Player ...
Check that the audio is 48kHz sample rate, and 16 bit. It is possible/probable that FCE HD will play anything; but a standard DVD uses 48kHz audio.

Issue with Motion Menu looping in CS6

Greetings all! I have been troubled with a recurring issue in a project I've been working on for a while where my Main Menu (the only one I have with a moving background) will not loop correctly. I am not an Encore veteran so there may be something simple that I'm doing wrong and just haven't caught yet... or perhaps this is some weird bug, I'm not sure. Here is what I've set up and the problem I'm having:
My Main Menu has 4 buttons: one goes to a primary video and the others are 3 submenus... all submenus work fine and can link back to the Main Menu without issue and when the Main Menu first loads, it also works fine with the video in the background playing normally. The primary video linked from the Main Menu also returns to the Main Menu as its End Action. My problem arises when the Main Menu is allowed to reach the end of its video and loops back to the beginning again before navigating away to another part of the disc. When it loops, the background video plays all the way through a second time like you would expect, however the menu is no longer interactive and no buttons can be pressed (the highlight also disappears on the second loop). Following the conclusion of the second loop, the Main Menu doesn't loop a third time but rather jumps randomly to about chapter 2 or 3 of the primary video! I have definitely not set it to do this. I was not sure what to do about the End Action of the Main Menu itself, as the "Motion" tab of the Menu's properties has a drop-down for looping the motion part... thus so far I have the End Action set to "Main Menu: Default". The motion background video is 45 seconds long and I have tried messing with the loop settings under the Motion tab, but it hasn't seemed to make much of a difference, it still breaks. Just for clarification, this is an error which I didn't notice right away because it appears to loop through the menu a second time normally, but the error occurs after the first play of the motion menu. Also, it happens both in preview and when I burn it to a disc.
If anyone else has experienced an issue like this or happens to know what I did wrong, please let me know so I can finally get this DVD project over with! I would be most grateful! Thank you!

Project corruption most frequently occurs because one or more changes are made and Encore gets "confused." But we rarely know why some such changes behave correctly and others do not.
If you must change an asset use a different name, never ever simply overwrite.
This just may be the issue then... Using Adobe's fancy "Dynamic Link" thingy I did edit a few assets after importing them into Encore. Sadly, I think Encore is definitely confused by this as now every time I open my project it prompts me to re-import one of the assets because it detected "changes" when in fact I have not changed it more than once and it is just trying to re-import the same thing over and over. I really wish I'd known to take these measure beforehand as I'm not sure how long it'll take now to rebuild the project completely, but I suppose I have no other choice if I want a working menu... wish me luck!
I'd like to note, however, that the asset that it always prompts me for is NOT related in any way to the Main Menu that is causing problems. It's an asset linked to from a different submenu. Also, I had planned everything out first, but as you might expect, little hiccups appear along the way and things need to be tweaked to have them work the way you want. Or maybe you think to add something later that you hadn't thought of before, it actually happens pretty often.
Still, it seems like Adobe is trying to promote the easy manipulation of assets within projects with the Dynamic Link feature. I really hate how these softwares do not even work the way they should... and yet Adobe charges people insane amounts of money for them.
Is there any good DVD authoring software that isn't so temperamental? I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place to ask... just curious for the sake of my own sanity.

Menu Music disappearing

So, I am using a quad core dell with Windows 7 and CS4 Encore. The first issue I was having was the whole system freezing (locking up) when I tried to import a CD quality WAV file that was about 66MB big. I tried multiple files and new projects and it always locks up immediately, doesn't even import a bit. I converted to MP3 and it imported fine. I also cut the file down to 33MB as a WAV file by cutting the file down to 3 minutes because that is all I wanted and that file imported fine. Is it because of the size that the original would not import?
Second problem I am having is that no matter what I use, the MP3 or smaller WAV file, when I preview the build the audio plays on the menu perfectly with the menu animation and plays all the way through the loop. When I build the project onto a disc, however, the music disappears. It could be on the disc for all I know but it is not playing over the menu when placed into several other computers and played in DVD player programs. I have to get this project out so unfortunately it is going out without the music but does anyone know what might be going on? I looked at some other threads similar to this but their fixes did not seem to work (ie: MP3's don't work so go to 48khz PCM WAV file). I even tried rebuilding some of the parts of the DVD to see if it is just an error in transcoding but nothing seemed to work. WHY IS ENCORE SO BUGGY ADOBE?
On another note does anyone use Encore on Mac and does it seem to be less buggy. I am soon to buy a quad core iMac for my editing work and wonder if it has better performance on MacOS vs. Vista and Windows which is where I have been using it now. Thanks everyone.
Chris Thomas

Chris,
For ripping from CD's, if one does not have a program, like Adobe Audition (it's coming to a Mac near you soon - BTW), then I highly recommend the free Audacity. It does a great job, is tiny and is free! Because DVD is 48KHz 16-bit (your CS should be 44.1KHz 16-bit), I always do the Save_As to the 48KHz 16-bit. I am not up on Mac's, but a PCM (not Linear) WAV is as good as it gets on a PC. Another option would be a fully DVD-compatible AC3. Little side note here: if you have Button Transitions, you will want their Audio stream to match the Audio stream of your Motion Menu.
In your case, I would edit (Audacity does a good job of that, or you can even use PrPro) down to just below the Duration of your Menu Motion Asset. Since you are doing a Loop Point into the animation at 04 sec., I'd think about how you edit the Audio. Personally, unless the music had a natural repeat at 04 sec., I'd probably have a long Fade-in, so that one does not hear much, if anything, until the 04 sec. point. You also want your Audio Asset to be 100% exactly the same Duration as your Motion Asset, or slightly shorter - never any longer, even by an Audio Unit, or two. DVD's (and BD's) are biased towards Video, and Audio must follow the Video. Many issues occur, when an Audio Asset is longer than the accompanying Video.
For all of my Timelines, the Video always starts and ends from black, and the Audio aways ends slightly before the Video.
Also, when encoding the Video and the Audio, the Audio uses a slightly different block size, so though it seems to 100% identical in PrPro, the resulting Export can be ever so slightly longer and that can cause all sorts of issues.
One last note: as Audio cannot span Menus, one should look for Durations with natural breaks, and repetition, so there will be less of a "jolt" to the user. For a single Menu Audio Asset, that could well be looping, depending on when the user clicks on a Button, I would also Fade-in and Fade-out, with just a hint of silence between, so that the user will not be aware of the player's laser moving about.
Hope that helps, and that editing your Audio to be just a touch shorter than your AE Comp, will fix things. Give Audacity a try, as it's really a powerful little tool. Though I have Audition, I still use Audacity from time to time.
Good luck,
Hunt

Rendering a motion menu

I'm a new user of DVDSP. I used an apple menu template that has motion in it ("Light cover"), and it stutters in the simulator and viewer. (By the way, I eliminated the drop zone, & I just have one button that says "Play.") How can I render this menu so I can view it without stuttering?

Yup...piece of cake. All you have to do is open DVD Player (for best results don't have a DVD in the drive). Then on the top screen menu choose "File" then "Open DVD Media" and choose the VIDEO_TS folder you just created. Then hit "play" on the remote and viola! You can test it out, see how it works, look for errors, etc. (only thing you won't know is if anything would get chopped off the sides/top when played on a TV).
Best thing is, if you find some minor errors, you can fix them in DVDSP, build the project again, and reuse material in the original build folder (so it can take a lot less time)

Spry Menu Bar disappears absolute position

Hello all this is my first time posting on this site so bear with me. I have a semi-transperant spry menu bar that i inserted into the header div, over an image. I moved the menu bar -38px, when the position is set to relative the menu bar is visible, however the old position of the menu bar has a blank white space there. I think this is due to the relative position property. When i change it to absolute the whole menu bar disappears? http://www.brightlikethesun.com/index2.html (the position is back to relative to show the menu bar and also background for header is blue to show the space)
CSS
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
width: 100%;
margin: auto;
position: relative;
top: -38px;
font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
opacity: 0.7;
filter: alpha(opacity=60); /* For IE8 and earlier */
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
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ul.MenuBarActive
z-index: 1000;
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: left;
cursor: pointer;
width: 20%;
float: left;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 70%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 50em;
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
width: 50em;
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
left: auto;
top: 0;
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/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
border: 1px solid #CCC;
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #EEE;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #C0C0C0;
text-decoration: none;
background: rgba(98, 135, 167, .4)
background: #45484d; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #45484d 0%, #000000 50%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#45484d), color-stop(100%,#000000)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #45484d 0%,#000000 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #45484d 0%,#000000 50%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #45484d 0%,#000000 50%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #45484d 0%,#000000 50%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#45484d', endColorstr='#000000',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
background-color: #33C;
color: #FFF;
background: #7d7e7d; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #7d7e7d 0%, #0e0e0e 50%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#7d7e7d), color-stop(100%,#0e0e0e)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #7d7e7d 0%,#0e0e0e 50%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #7d7e7d 0%,#0e0e0e 50%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #7d7e7d 0%,#0e0e0e 50%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #7d7e7d 0%,#0e0e0e 50%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#7d7e7d', endColorstr='#0e0e0e',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;
html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Bright Like The Sun -- San Antonio, TX</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<body>
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    <p><img src="BLTS2.jpg" alt="BLTS" width="411" height="297" align="left" /><img src="BLTS font.jpg" width="340" /> is a Post-Rock band from San Antonio. They were born in early 2012 from the collective desire to make beautiful, thought provoking, and at times, chaotic music. Much like fellow Texan bands like Explosions in the Sky and This Will Destroy You, they are entirely instrumental, and known for creating progressively intricate waves of ambiance that grow with intensity and an unabashed wash of emotion. Attuned to their affinity for dynamics, seeing them live takes the listener from deafening walls of orchestrated sound, to melodies so subtle that one finds themselves acutely aware of their own breathing. <br />
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    <h4>Bright Like The Sun Consists of:</h4>
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What I see:
You need a width on the ul.MenuBarVertical style. Make it the same width as the ul.MenuBarVertical li selector.
Remove the float: none; from this style:
ul.MenuBarVertical ul li
     width: 12em;
     float: none;
No such measurement as a half a pixel:
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
     border: .5px solid #CCC;
If you want a border, 1px is minimum...you repeat this incorrect half-pixel in several places.
Running your page through the W3C Validator returned this: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthydirections.ca%2F&charset=%28dete ct+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Your initial errors are not declaring a DOCTYPE, which among other things, does not provide the browser with any information regarding how you want the code interpreted for your viewer. Some browsers guess well, some do not (IE).
This
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is insufficient.
Apply this in its place, and run through the validator again.
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