Menu – Background animation – buttons showing up / loop point not enabled

[Joe Bowden]

In general, I try to make my “static” portion of a motion menu about 15 seconds. This minimizes the appearance of button highlights switching off and back on when the menu loops, and often 15 seconds is enough time for the user to choose a button, so they never see this loop.

[Kevin Dearing]

Gotcha,
I guess my original thinking was trying to minimize space used on the DVD for these animations since my main program is an hour and a half and I’ve got a few extra’s..

So, my understanding is that as long as I have a couple of seconds of static buttons in my background animations then I can set the loop point to wherever the animated buttons stop, then I can choose none for the loop # (since there’s no other animation)..

THat’s how I’ve got it set now, will render my lengthened animations then do a test burn..

Thanks again – I REALLY appreciate your time!

–KTFA

[Kevin Dearing]

Alright, well, It’s not quite working the way I thought it would.. I made all of my animations longer by about 2 seconds. I set the loop point to 2 seconds less than the new duration. I set loop # to none and, basically went through another 5 test burn DVD’s and it’s still not quite right.

THe main menu works as expected.. The second menu plays the animation but I can only select the ‘Main’ button – not either of the two normal buttons which link to content. I’m wondering if the menu isn’t corrupt or something (though I did duplicate it and worked on that which netted better results – just not quite right..)

As I have to get this DVD out for duplication I am going to have to scale back and loose most of the animations. Fortunately, I am the client so I’m ok with it.. But, I still have to figure this stuff out for next time. Once I get this in the mail I’ll try messing around to see if I can produce the effects that I want.

Thanks for your help guys!

–KTFA

[Jeff Bellune]

Be sure to buy an RW disc or two so that you don’t make any more coasters. 😉

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Kevin Dearing]

I totally hear that! I’ve burnt 12 so far and it’s still not right.. Too bad the preview isn’t more reliable..

So anyway, here’s what I wound up doing – I started from scratch – all the way back into Premiere, exported to Encore, then imported all of my assets and menu’s.. Made sure I had the duration and the loop point set correctly and whallah – it works just fine! (except for the chapter menu that I’m still having a problem with.. see thread above)

–KTFA