• Adobe Encore DVD

  Motion Menu Goes Black When Adding Button

  Posted by Tim Walton on December 7, 2014 at 12:47 am

  I’m creating a Blu-ray in Encore CS5.5. I built a short (1:30) video to loop as a motion background for the main menu. I import the video and audio as assets, and attach them to the menu. When I preview the menu at this point, both the video and audio play fine. The minute I add a button however, the video goes black (audio still plays fine, and button is visible). Ultimately, I’m trying to create an original button (not a generic one included).

  I’ve searched all over the internet and while it appears to be a common problem – I haven’t found a solution that’s worked yet. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

  Thrown up a generic button (included with Enc).
  Dynamically linked menu to PS.
  Deleted generic button “group” and created new button group.
  Deleted *locked* background layer & created new, unlocked background layer.
  Opened After Effects and minimized it in bg.
  Emptied cache in Encore.
  Reset loop point to :10:00, then reset it back to 00:00.
  Cold-booted entire computer.

  Anybody have ANY ideas???

  Thanks!

  Tim

  Tim Walton

  Tim Walton replied 11 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Stan Jones

  December 7, 2014 at 2:24 am

  I don’t have any idea if you get the same thing when you add only an Encore library button. I assume your custom button has a non-highlight layer that is full frame.

  Try adding an Encore library menu, then add your motion assets to that.

  Don’t forget to render the menu each time you make a change.

  Stan Jones
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  Tim Walton

  December 7, 2014 at 2:33 am

  Hi Stan –

  Thanks for the speedy reply. No, the highlight is not a full-frame image – its just a line that pops up when the button is selected.

  Something else I neglected to mention: the looping menu video fades in from black at the beginning, and out to black at the end – so the first frame of video is black. If I reset the loop point to somewhere in the middle of the video, whatever frame it lands on becomes a still image in the background of the menu – while it’s playing (audio still plays fine).

  Already tried the library menu and got the same problem when I added the motion assets to it.

  Tim Walton
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  Stan Jones

  December 7, 2014 at 3:16 am

  Are the video and audio exactly the same length?

  Stan Jones
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  Tim Walton

  December 7, 2014 at 3:33 am

  Hi Stan –

  Yes, they are.

  I just got it to work. Ran thru all the steps again (including rendering out the preview) and it worked!

  Thanks for the support, though!

  Kind Regards,

  Tim Walton

  Tim Walton

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