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Button links to a slate still, but I still want the video thumbnail?
Basically my setup is that I have a number of buttons on sceen, each linking to a different commercial. As of right now everything is fine, the commercial thumbnail plays in the button. But now I want to add a slate detailing the commercial info. So I made a slate still and brought it in, put it on a timeline, and wan the button to link to that slate, then jump to the commercial. The only problem is that the thumbnail is now the slate. Is there a way I can keep the thumbnail as a clip from the commercial, but still have it go to the slate?
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It’s possible, and there’s a couple of ways you can do it:
1. Instead of letting Encore set up the motion menu for the thumbnails, create the motion menu background yourself in After Effects or Premiere. That way you can make it show anything you want for the buttons.
2. Use a little timeline trickery. Instead of using the slate as a still, go back to your editing program and attach the slate to the end of the commercial. Export this as a movie, import into Encore and put on a timeline. Set a chapter point where the slate starts, and link the button to that chapter. Set the poster frame for the chapter point to be at the beginning of the timeline, where the commercial starts. Make sure to limit the duration of the menu so that the motion thumbnail doesn’t roll into the slate. In fact, if you’re using only a 5- or 10-second duration for the motion menu, when you set up this movie in your editing program, clip the commercial down to only what you’re going to use. This method is going to use a lot more disc space, since what you’re doing is essentially duplicating the commercial for just the thumbnail.
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