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Motion Menu render problem and button highlighted prematurely
(sorry if this is a twice-read for you but I got no responses so I assumed it got lost in the other thread)
I originally asked about how to position buttons whose location was dictated by a video that I was using as background for a motion menu. (The video starts out without buttons, so their position wasn’t apparent within Encore.) The proper answer was to use a shorter clip or a PS frame, and create the buttons in Photoshop. I did that.
I was able to position my buttons in Photoshop using a shorter version of just the tail end of the motion video. In Encore I substituted in the full length motion video (which starts off without button).
When I try to render the motion menu, it is grayed out, both on the File dropdown menu and in the Preview window.
So I tried burning the DVD. The motion menu plays, but the first button is already in its highlighted state.
I’d appreciate any ideas about this, and also any suggestions as to a good tutorial for motion menu creation (again, I don’t have the latest version of After Effects).
— BC
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Is it true that Encore shows the highlight state for Button One, regardless whether you select “Default Button” to “none” or any of the buttons?
My workaround is to create a “dummy button” and name it #1. Does that sound right?
— BC
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[Bob Cole] “My workaround is to create a “dummy button” and name it #1. Does that sound right?”
Found out that the dummy button is a bad idea, as hitting “play” when it is invisibly selected may cause user trauma.
Much simpler: reduce the transparency (menu/edit menu color set) of the Selected state to 0%, so the single button on the menu doesn’t appear to be highlighted.
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Did you set your Loop Point value?
The button highlighting should come on at the Loop Point timecode.
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