Subpicture Highlight shifts position on button when a shadow is applied in PS.

Hi all,
I created a menu in PS CS4 with text (some with drop shadows) that i assigned as buttons in Encore CS4. When i converted the text into buttons, I discovered that the ones with drop shadows caused the subpicture highlight to shift position up and to the right of the button.
Can someone verify this?

Jim,
I'm not sure why you are having troubles with your converted to DV-AVI files. I get handed MPEG-2 material in several delivery schemes, and just do the conversion with DigitalMedia Converter, before I Import into PrPro. I seldom have any issues with these. The only issue is that with a very few, PrPro does not see the proper Duration. I have found that with these, I just open them in PrElements (they always show correct Duration), and then just do an Export as DV-AVI Type II (same exact format/CODEC and settings as what I Imported), and these "processed" files work 100% in PrPro. I've never been able to find any difference between the DMC converted DV-AVI's, and those run through PrE, but there has to be something different.
As for the quality, you have to remember that the source footage was first compressed to MPEG-2, and to get it onto DVD, you'll be recompressing it again. Now, for light editing, there are NLE programs that do "smart rendering," where the Exported MPEG-2 will NOT be re-compressed, except for the exact areas that were changed. PrPro does not have smart rendering.
Exporting to DV-AVI Type II, and Importing those into Encore, will give you quality as good as it will get. You CAN Export as MPEG-2 (DVD-compliant) from PrPro and can adjust your bit-rate (controls quality), but you are likely to not do better than Encore will on Automatic.
Working from perviously compressed material will never yield results as good as going back to the original camera footage. Those compressions/re-compressions destroy quality.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - globally replacing Assets in PrPro is not really possible. Unless CS4.2 (coming soon) has a new feature in the Project Panel, I only know of one way - Offline Media, the Link Media. As there are no Actions, or Scripting in PrPro, like in Photoshop, it's a manual, and often tedious process.

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