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Adobe Encore – Basics of creating motion menu
Hi everyone
Apologies if I am asking something that has been asked already. I’m brand new to the forum, as well as Encore itself.
I am busy authoring my first ever Blu-Ray on Encore CS6, and I am completely lost. I am used to creating DVDs on DVD Studio Pro, but that is obviously not an option for Blu-Ray.
I have seen tutorials on the basics of setting up a project, and adding video to a menu, which I have got a good handle on, but thats about it.
The main problem is that I can’t seem to see my motion menu in my menus panel (it is just a blank screen), and thus am not sure how to add buttons to it. The menu video that I have exported from Premiere has the words “Play” & “Scene Selection” hardcoded into the video itself, so I really just need to add a button next to each option to link to the appropriate section of the disk.
When I preview it, the video plays as it should, but it just does not show up in the actual workspace. Is there something simple that I am missing?
Thanks in advance, any links to appropriate tutorials are most welcome.
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I can help!
As far as getting your menu to preview in the workspace –
In the preview window, press this button and it will render your menu so that you can see a preview in the menu workspace. As far as getting it to play or preview in that menu I don’t think its possible, only in preview.
For your buttons –
Encore is meant to work off ‘still’ buttons, but your situation sounds a lot like mine and I have a workaround for you. I pre-made took a button from the library tab –
If you have nothing in your library tab like I did, Adobe has it available for download.
Place that button onto your menu, then look into the layers panel and delete everything excluding these –
In the menu workspace that you should be able to see a preview of your menu, stretch these boxes over the video where you want the user to select.
to re-cap that last part, you are taking a pre-made button, turn off the graphics in the button, then place the “selection box” over wherever you have a menu item. If you have multiple menu items, after you do this once duplicate that layer and do it again!
I know that this is a few months late, but this information took me awhile to find myself and I hope this can help anyone that stumbles upon this post.
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