Rescaling a background video... how?

I want to be able to resize a background video that is in SD format. The project, however, is widescreen HD. I want to be able to resize the background video so that fills the monitor screen completely.
How do I do this?

Can you tell us about your source video and also your Project Preset? These two should match 100% and there will be no need to Scale anything.
Then, someone can direct you.
Good luck,
Hunt

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How can I fade in menus with background video?

Hi there,
I'm new to this forum (and to DVD SP) and have searched without being able to find out how to get my menus to work in this scenario:
I have a short (6s) background video that does not loop and ends on a still frame.
There are two drop zones, both with semi-transparent areas so that I can see the video play underneath. One drop zone has my title (as text in DVD SP) and the other has my "play" button.
I want my video to play for 5s and then have all the other elements fade in over the last second.
Here's what I've tried (thanks to suggestions from here and dvdstudiopro.digitalmedianet.com--which uses js that really bogs down Firefox, BTW):
A. I created a custom patch using PS that's a 6s .mov file that's simply a black mask that fades to white.-->this causes my drop zones (which are layered psd files with a mask of their own) to fade up, BUT the custom patch overrides the drop zone mask and causes the drop zone to become completely opaque.
B. I tried separating the background video and menus into separate menus in DVD SP. The first menu plays the video, then jump to the second menu which contains the last frame of the video as a still with the drop zones and button on top.-->this works but there is a noticable delay going from menu 1 to menu 2 and it looks horrible.
C. I created a 6s .mov file in FCP that does exactly what I want, but when I bring it into DVD SP, the quality suffers.-->I exported without compression from FCP and with, same bad results (especially in text).
Is there a way for me to get this to work gracefully?
I put a still of my menu with callouts at this url if it helps:
http://infactfilms.com/dvdmenu/
Thanks very much and I appreciate the wealth of info in this forum.
Cheers!
misho

Hi
Read this note about Menu rendering in DVDSP:
If you edit all your elements in FCP, adding the graphic fade in/outs, texts, etc and then export it directly with Compressor to MPEG2, and use that file/s as Menu backgrounds, DVDSP will not re-encode these menus.
If you add in DVDSP text, graphic for buttons, drop zones, etc it will need to render and encode the background again to add those graphics.
Take care of what video format you choose in FCP for your background edit. DV codec works really bad with graphic elements; you better choose DVCPRO50 sequence settings and export directly from FCP through Compressor. That way FCP will use the raw info from each frame and not the render files as if you export as Quicktime Movie.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

How To Create A Website Background Video In Adobe Edge ?

Hello,
I have video file in my computer SSD drive and i want it to play as background on my web page (page that i am creating).I did try to follow this video:
How To Create A Website Background Video In Adobe Edge Animate Using Edgehero - YouTube
but i cant follow 100% what he is doing.
Guide that i did try to follow is at this link: How To Create A Website Background Video In Adobe Edge Animate Using Edgehero - YouTube
Steps i do in Adobe Edge Animate CC
1.) Create New
2.) i click + sign under section Library >> Scripts >> Add JS File from URL...
URL that i am adding is: http://www.edgehero.com/edgehero.js/1.2/edgehero_1.2_min.js (URL is taken from site: Edgehero.js )
I add this link: http://www.edgehero.com/edgehero.js/1.2/edgehero_1.2_min.js to box that occures after i click on Add JS File from URL
3.) I go to Edgehero.js and from there i scrol down to section named as Media - Html5 video / Html5 audio
and i select from there this:
there is a code:
// this will set the video as background of the div/rectangle
backgroundvideo_1 ='movie.mp4';
// put new edgehero.js variables here
4.) I go to Adobe Edge Animate CC 2014 and right click on project and select Open Actions for "Stage"
and then i click on + sign and select creationComplete
This will open Stage window
there i will copy this code:
// this will set the video as background of the div/rectangle
backgroundvideo_1 ='movie.mp4';
// put new edgehero.js variables here
5.) Then i click on ++ sign under library >> Video
and i add video from my computer SSD drive.
Video is named as video3.mp4
Now i eddit the code in Stage window (See above)
code will look after editing like this:
Then i change under left side px to %
6.) Then i copy backgroundvideo_1 from Stage Code:
Then i select Rectangle Tool and mark the area (white box) and i click on small C icon
And the box that occures i type there backgroundvideo_1_mp4 autoplay
now when i use ctrl and enter i only get gray box that does not play video.
What am i doing wrong?

Here is the html file.
Note video file that i try to add is random training video from youtube, And file format is saved using this site:
How do I download and save a YouTube video to my computer?
this is only for testing as i am not gonna put that video on background to my web page. I am only trying to understand how to add video as background.
http://www.filedropper.com/test3_5
http://www.filedropper.com/test3_6
http://www.filedropper.com/test3edge
http://www.filedropper.com/test3edgeactions
http://www.filedropper.com/test3edgepreload
Goal is to create background video like u can see here:
Adobe Muse Tutorial - Responsive Design Hack! by MuseThemes.com - YouTube
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How to create background video in a persistent menu template

I'm working on an Extras project which requires a background video to be played in the menus. I can start the background video as suggested in this post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5276546?tstart=0 but I can't get the video to play after returning from playing the feature. I think the event "iTunes Video Did Close" should be used to implement this action but I have no luck using it with the background layer. The event works fine if used in a normal page. Any input on this problem would be appreciated
Note:
The problem can be solved if I can somehow access the background video in the background layer using JavaScript (so I can fire the event in a normal page and start the playback using JavaScript) but I don't know how. Can anyone help me with this too?

This is very simple. It's two copies of the layer. The bottom (back) one has been scaled up with a blur effect.
Start here to learn After Effects:
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How do I add mpg background video behind a psd menu in Encore?

How do I add mpg background video behind a psd menu in Encore? The psd file is transparent and it still comes out as pitch black behind the menu. I'm inexperienced with these products so any help is greatly appreciated.

If you have done what Russ describes and it does not work...
Encore replaces the background layer with your motion video. So make sure you have a) a layer at the bottom (in Photoshop layer order) that is named "background," and b) no other full layer above that (for example, an image in another layer you've used instead of the original background layer).
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Not trying to argue with you and I know you are only trying to help and I know that you know ALOT more about this than I do.. you do... I don't know if background was the correct "place" to call it.. but nevertheless.. what I beleive it is, is in the background.. and maybe that is part of the problem. It is supposed to be called from a JQuery plugin, and where I have it now is in a "div [div2]" in the "gridcontainer". It was working and my latest attempts it was working great.. but wasn't centered. But I've changed a bunch of code around lately and so that is why it is not working right now... The "Enter" that you see on the link I provided is the "poster". When I get a chance I will work on it and get the animation working again.. or back to normal.. just not centered. At first I was thinking "centered vertically".. and so for like a week, maybe longer.. everthing that I was searching for and trying was for "vertically center a div".. then it hit me.. you jacka$$.. you want to horizontally center it... Haha! Again, thank you for your input.

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You might be able to thumbnail it, but where is the advantage?
Possibility that you can use that to place a smaller movie, but I don't know if it works that way. Worth testing.

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Hi, I am having serious problems with Adobe Encore at the moment, and really need help fast.
I am currently making a DVD project where:
I have used Photoshop to create the buttons (It's just the two buttons/options created in groups with the text and their highlights. There is no background).
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So I went back to Encore, inserted the buttons and my background video, created the motion properties so that the video would play behind the buttons (and I did the same for audio). Then I went to preview it, and clicked 'render' and it wouldn't! It just pops up 'Photoshop File Error-1'.
I read that other people have the same problem and have tried editing the psd with the buttons, but still nothing has helped!!!
Can someone please help me??
I would really appreciate it. Thank You
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>alert them to the problem, and fix it?
Will never be fixed... CS6 is done
CS6 is the final Encore http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/faq.html
-see #8 here for why http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1337952?tstart=0
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Ted.

If you didn't use black after the couple of frames of the "2," what would you put between there and the starty of program?
You CAN change the black if you want... but there's a reason for :02 of black:
It's expected and necessary in live television.
Black is necessary on the tape in order to be able to go from "black to black" as when going into a commercial break.
------- stop here if you don't want the background on why---
The tape is cued to a specific number of seconds ahead of sound and then rolled when the director calls a "roll tape" or "Roll VTR _" cue. The countdown rolls by in the monitor, and the director and technical director can see when picture's up, then take the video.
There's usually a fade to black out of program and then eithe a cut or fade to the next video/audio source.
A similar process happens at the end of the commercial. At a specific number of seconds before the end of commercial #1, commercial #2 is rolled... then taken... and so forth if things are coming off of separate tape machines.
Black at the head and tail of spots lets a simple routing switcher make the change from playback device to playback device.
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If things were rolled "live," one right after another, I'm sure that there were a lot of praying break operators in stations where equipment was old, maintainence was lax and Murphy was a regular visitor.
The countdown and black on each commercial was a necessary timing tool in order to get through the break cleanly. I can tell you from experience that NOT having them made life verrry dicey when it came to getting in and out of program elements cleanly.
The RCA TCR 100 Cart machine and the Ampex model that did the same thing) would play all the elements in a break and do the switching in between... simplifying the process... until there was a breakdown of the machine, and then you should have seen the scramble in Master Control and/or the tape room.
Its a lot different these days if the station or network airing the commercials plays spots (commercials) off a file server... it's a different game entirely.
Everything is automated and "trimmed" when it's transferred (or start and finish marked on the file).
In that case. the countdown is not needed to get the commercial on the air... but is included to ensure that there's a reference for where the spot actually begins. The :02 of black is still included, since stations traditionally fade or cut to black between spots.
The countdown itself was designed to allow theater projectionists make smooth changes from reel to reel as a movie was projected on the screen.
The projectionist would thread the film on the incoming projector so that the first "10" was in the gate.
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The countdown performs a similar function in live television: The tape is cued to a specific number of seconds ahead of sound and then rolled when the director calls a "roll tape" or "Roll VTR _" cue. The countdown rolls by in the monitor, and the director and technical director can see when picture's up, then take the video.
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s.haider
You have Canon ZR950 mini DV Camcorder, why not make a firewire connection and do DV data capture into the Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1 Capture Window?
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b. What exactly do you expect to be putting on the Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1 Timeline from this capture...DV AVI or something else?
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b. Are you working from the 8.0.1 Update version of the program?
Please consider.
We will be watching for the outcome.
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Hi,
I've been struggling for hours (feels like weeks!) trying to adjust the background video length to match the audio length on my encore menu to prevent the white screen appearing once the background video has finished.
Having read through some previous questions on here I see the general advice is to adjust the audio length to match the video length but is there really no way of doing it the other way around?
I tried editing the background video in premier pro, and managed to do that effectively so it was identical in length to the audio track, however then I couldn't work out how to export it back into encore so it would use it as a menu.
I'm still getting to grips with all the software so any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Thanks for your reply, I'm not sure I was totally clear about what I am trying to do. Basically I have a menu image with background video that currently runs on a loop of 16 seconds, and I have an audio file (song) that lasts 3 minutes and also loops. I can put the audio on the menu fine as long as I have menu with no background video but if I try and have both it runs but then goes to a white menu screen after the 16 second loop while the audio continues to the end.
I understand from what I have read that the audio track and video background need to be the same length (I guess so they can loop together or something) and to edit the audio track down to 16 seconds makes it pretty pointless in using. This is why I have been trying to increase the background video to the same length as the audio track. They will then both loop until play is pressed on the remote for the DVD to start.
I forgot to say in my original post I am using CS4, with Windows 7 - I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
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Liz

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My movies and music videos won't show up on my computer screen, I can hear the sound but not see the video how do I fix this? I'm not sure what to do as far as turning my purchased movie into DVD goes either. I just want to put the movie onto a DVD disc but my itunes won't even show that I have a blank disc in the drive, I'm not sure what is wrong or how to fix this, any help at all would be much appreciated.

Hi @anthony7722 ,
Thank you for your query, I will do my best to help!
I grasp that you uninstalled the Intel graphic driver and the catalyst control. You reinstalled the Intel driver and now you can view and hear videos on the Internet but you are unable to set the resolution as high as previously.
When I checked the specifications for your notebook I see that you have switchable graphics.
Here are two links that I believe will help.
Overview of Switchable Graphics or Dual GPUs
Switchable Graphics on Notebooks Configured with Intel and ATI GPUs
Here is a link to HP Pavilion dv7-6150eb Entertainment Notebook PC Drivers
Please try this process.
1. Download the chipset driver, and both graphic drivers and save them but do not install them yet
2, Delete the chipset driver and install the updated one.
3. restart your notebook
4.Delete the Intel driver and install the updated one
5. restart your notebook
6. Delete the AMD driver and install the updated driver.
You should now have a Catalyst Control Center.
This should now allow you to use the higher graphic card which should support the higher resolution.
I hope this helped.
Sparkles1
I work on behalf of HP
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