Encore buttons not showing up

[Jeff Bellune]

Is it the buttons that don’t show up, or the highlights that are missing?

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Brock Gomez]

Both the buttons and highlights are not showing up completely. If anything is displayed it is sort of an outline or some scan lines where the button/highlight should be. It sort of looks like the AT&T logo (if that makes any sense). https://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/att-logo.jpg

[Jeff Bellune]

Can you post a screenshot of your menu?

Is the menu static, or do you have a video background?

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Quasi Stellor]

Hi,

I have the same problem.

I created 3 menus in Photoshop. Highlights show the names of the items. After burning the DVD, I tested it on a Mac and a PC (progressive screens) and also tested it on a normal old fashion 4:3 tv (interlaced) connected to the mac. Everything works fine.

When I tested it on the same tv but connected on a DVD player, the menu items (highlights) are unreadable. They look like a interlaced progressive signal (if you understand what I mean) but they look badder than that.

The problem is with the (=1) & (=2). The (=3) are good.
(=1) is red, (=2) is black & (=3) is white

VLC also shows bad the menus

Here are some print screens:

How it should look:

How it’s looking on a TV with DVD player:

And how it look with VLC:

You can see in VLC some displacements & some grey areas and they’re are no grey areas in what I made. Only Red, Black & White

Thx for your time

[Jeff Bellune]

@quasi,

Are you using the combination of En CS3 and Leopard? That combo causes highlights to go missing, except that sometimes an (=3) highlight layer will work.

Reverting to using En CS3 and Tiger is the fix.

Other than that, I don’t have any idea what’s going on. I’ve never seen that behavior before.

Sorry I can’t be more help,
-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Brock Gomez]

The menu is not static. There is an opening animation where the background elements grow and the 3 video panes shown in the screen shot come into place.

https://vimeo.com/8140161

The buttons are just simple cirlces that I made in the Photoshop editing technique using the (+) and (=1) expressions.

[Jeff Bellune]

Brock,

Thanks for posting all of that. I don’t know why you’d see this issue with CS4.

Can you try setting the (=1) layer names to (=3) layer names and see if that makes any difference?

And although I don’t think it’s a blank-media-quality issue, if you’re not using Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim blanks you should try one of those brands.

And if you’re burning at the full rated speed of either the media or the burner, slow it down to 1/2 the rated speed of the slowest one.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Quasi Stellor]

Actually I’m using (Snow) Leopard and CS4.
It’s the first time I’m using Encore to make DVDs. Normally I do then with DVD Studio Pro. Encore promises work flows that aren’t possible in Studio Pro.

I would like not to have to remake my hole project in DVD Studio Pro because I believe in the potential of Encore.

Anyway thx for every thing, I really appreciate your commitment,

quasi

[Lenny Smith]

i had same problem today of buttons not showing in preview or on burned disc, just to try i went to “edit menu in photoshop” and turned on the eyeballs for the layer highlights, then saved the menu…now preview in encore shows the buttons….have not burned disc yet to see if it’s all ok on a disc. Highlight eyeballs are OFF in the encore layer tab but ON when saved in photoshop…
Had 5 menus in encore project and they all now show the buttons..Is this not some kind of bug?

[Nicholas Pollicino]

I too am having the same problem with Encore CS3. I am using OSX 10.6.2 snow leopard. I can my burnt SD dvd flawlessly in Blu-ray players, Computers, Xbox, PS3. However, the button highlights fail to load when playing in a standard DVD player. I’ve tried alternate DVD burners, and changing regional settings. Is there a way to fix this problem without reverting back to an older OSX?? I need leopard in order to use some of my accelerators. Please help if you have the solution