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Menu button highlights are misaligned and I am going bonkers finding a fix
I created the menu in PS, it’s 720×480 pixels with a 1.21 PAR. The highlights are far to the lower left of where they should be. I have tried saving the PSD as different PAR and it’s still not working. I am on my 7th DVD I’ve burned to test.
I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE!
I have made a bunch of menus in the same way, this is the first time encountering this.
I even just now ditched the original menus and chose to create one from within Encore then edited in Photoshop. SAME THING.
How can Encore create a menu from scratch that is going to give me faulty output?
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3 Replies
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This is not normal, so I’d assume you have some setting that is off. So look for things you don’t normally consider:
Are you sure you created the project as NTSC and not PAL?
Are you sure you have the menu set to be 16:9? (Your 1.21 par suggests you have a widescreen project.)
You are making a DVD, correct?
What are you changing when you edit the EN menu in PS?
Use rewriteable disk for tests.
Stan Jones
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I have encountered menus in Encore that for reason’s I have not been able to troubleshoot to a “WHY” level — Just don’t work right….
What I’ve done in past is DELETE that menu and start over…..
I’ve been saving menus in a separate folder, which, when I start a new DVD or BR, I copy to that menu to directory where my assets are saved, and then change that menu to fit the session I’m working on….. and then proceed from there….
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Encore and Photoshop do some odd things with the pars. The Encore psd’s are the same as before the CS4 par change, but when EN sends them to PS, it gives PS an instruction.
However, for highlights to be off by very much, it generally requires the psd size to be wrong OR for the highlight layer to have been moved while in PS.
I would test by creating a new EN project, add one menu from the EN library, and see how that looks. Don’t edit in PS or anything.
Stan Jones
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