Fade in Menu Text / Menu Transitions

[Joe Bowden]

You should create a motion menu that has the entire video you want to play before the “menu” appears, and use the Loop Point menu property to activate the button highlights at the desired timecode.

For part 2, if you have Encore 2.0, you can add button transitions that will take you from the menu to the timeline. You create the transitional video in Premiere or After Effects, and then apply it as a transition to the button.

[Bassabus]

Hi!

I tried managing looping the menubackroundvideo at the last frame, but encore ignores it – it needs at least 10 frames.
Can you give me an exact example how you would do it? Maybe a link?

Thanks a lot
bassabus

[Jeff Bellune]

In AE (or whatever program you used to make your menu background video), add 30 seconds to one minute of just the static portion of your menu (after all of the graphics, text and buttons are in place).

Then set the loop point back to the beginning of the static portion.

Use the .psd copy of the menu as a target link when the audience returns the menu from a timeline or another menu.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Bassabus]

Hi!

I had the same idea too. Is this the professional way of doing it? The way film-dvd-menus are made?

Thanks
bassabus

[Jeff Bellune]

The idea is the same, the execution is the same, but most commercial DVDs will have some kind of background video and audio going on the whole time the menu is displayed, even after the buttons are in place.

Then it is up to the DVD author to decide if he wants the audience to be returned to the original copy of the menu (with introduction) or a second copy of the menu (the part after the buttons and graphics are all in place).

Commercial DVDs will also have button transitions going from a menu to a timeline, or from a menu to another menu.

Hope this helps,

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0