Scrolling menu in after effects

[Bartek Skorupa]

After Effects is not giving us any interactivity. This is the application for motion graphics. The end result of the work in After Effects is a piece of film.
Film, defined as: images that appear one after another.

Interactivity is gained in other programs, like Flash for example.
You can use AE to prepare some footage, but not to make full interactive application.

After Effects doesn’t have any buttons. You can create a button, but can’t make it interactive.

Bartek Skorupa
Warszawa, Poland

[Hugo Gonçalves]

Thank you for your help. By the way do you know any way of doing that? Any other program?

[Bartek Skorupa]

No. I can’t help you with that.
Let me put it this way:
You are asking the cook how to produce shoes.
There are some cooks, who know that, but I’m not the one.
You’d better ask shoemakers.

In fact you answered your question yourself: You want to make a menu in Encore, so why don’t you use Encore. If you don’t know how – refer to Encore’s manual or ask Encore experts.

Bartek Skorupa
Warszawa, Poland

[Hugo Gonçalves]

Lol. Thank you for your pompt help anyway. ^^

[Hugo Gonçalves]

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[Jon Geddes]

I would definitely use after effects to create what you want.

You simply create your menu in After Effects, then render out a still frame or video of just the first half of the text. Then animate the text to scroll down and render out just the transition. Then render out the still frame or video of the second half of the text. Animate the text scrolling back up, and render just that part out. So now you have 2 videos/stills for the menu, and 2 transitions.

In encore, create a blank menu, and use the video/still of the first part of the text as the background. Create another blank menu and use the video/still of the second have of the text as the background. Create buttons on the menus that tell the user to scroll up/down. Then link the scroll down button on the first menu to the second menu. Link the scroll up button on the second menu to the first menu.

Then using the menu transition feature, have the first menu use the transition from the first half to the second half. Then have the second menu use the other transition.

Hopefully that wasn’t too confusing, let me know if you have any more questions.

Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com