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HD Menus
Hi all.
Can you do HD menus in Encore? I have been making my menus in HD, but Encore just scales them down to a widescreen SD menu. I can’t find any place to choose HD for menus.
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19 Replies
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What are the dimensions and pixel aspect ratio of the menus you have made?
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Yes you can create HD menus, but only for a Blu-ray Project. You must have CS3 or above for this feature.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
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I exported the movie for the background from After Effects at 1920×1080, I then tried 1280×720. Both times the only options were 4:3 or 16:9 SD. Encore just scaled the movie down.
Ray Lane
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It is a bluray project and its Encore CS4. When I bring in the movie, Encore scales it down to SD. It does still look great though 🙂
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams -
Where does it get scaled down? In the menu? What’s the size of your menu?
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When I bring in the background movie for the menu, it is 1920×1080. When I choose the movie as the background Encore scales it to widescreen SD. The only option I see is to choose 4:3 or 16:9
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams -
Are you sure you have selected A Blu-Ray preset using 1920 X 1080 in Encore? If you do this, importing full resolution .psd files won’t convert to a lower resolution. I suspect you either have a DVD preset, or have your project resolution set to 720 X 480. You can check this by choosing File, Project Settings.
Hope this helps,
Heath
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nope, all bluray. When I make the disk it’s a bluray disk with HD video….but with an SD menu
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams -
I am fairly convinced that Encore is just the flakiest, most poorly-written software this side of Redmond, WA.
Now when I open the project, with NOTHING having changed, Encore wants to re-encode all my assets. I even checked all the settings and they are correct. AND if I click on an asset in the bin, it says “Don’t Transcode”……Nevermind, in the middle of writing this, it locked-up. When I re-opened, it was OK again. Just goes to prove my point about it being FLAKY!! I think I want my money back 🙁
Ray Lane
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Now when I try to build THE SAME PROJECT THAT WORKED EARLIER, it comes back with an error!
Blu-ray Error: “device error”, Code: “3”, Note: “File can not open.(/Volumes/Video Capture/Encore/La/LaAuthorScriptHDMVSessions/_PGC_Bpgc_Ctrk_1_audio.ac3.ves)-
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams
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