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Seamless menu transitions without black breaks?
Hi There,
I have a menu that I want to have start from an animated transition from black, hold on a menu with a looping background, and then transition to the destination clip with another transition clip.
I’ve done this by starting the disc with a timeline and having the end action of the timeline jump to the menu. On the menu item I have my transition asset as the first item in the destination timeline.
Unfortunately, instead of connecting the intro, menu, and transition pieces seamlessly, I get a pause with a black screen for a moment between each break. I have seen commercia Blu-Rays and DVDs that do this without the jump and wondering if perhaps I am doing something wrong, or if there may be a setting I have overlooked. Another possibility could be that Encore doesn’t handle seamless transitions at all.
Has anyone else had and overcome this problem? Any help would be appreciated!!
Brian
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6 Replies
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Unfortunately Encore isn’t really a professional authoring tool. What you’ve seen was done by high end tools and seasoned programmers
The blacks are caused from the laser needed to refocus to another title
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I was sort of getting the sense that Encore wasn’t as powerful as I’d originally allowed myself to believe. It’s a bit delicate to use and positioning elements on the flowchart can be an annoying mess at best. It’s too bad, considering how powerful their media encoder is. I was looking forward to doing more with it, but if I can’t make the robust interfaces I want to, I will have to go for another application.
Any suggestions as to a good Blu-Ray authoring platform for Mac without having to run a Windows app in a VM? What’s this stuff I hear people saying about Blue Streak? As for programming, I’m as seasoned as they come – I just need to get up to speed on the tools and development environment.
Brian
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You’ll have to wait for Larry to chime in on that. I believe There are ways to reprogram the abstraction layer. Blu Streak was originally intended to produce a CMF image for replication…another thing Encore will not do. Ive been using Scenarist for years so I cant say for sure. There’s really nothing on the Mac. Have you look at DVDLogic’s suite of tools?
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Thanks Eric… not the news I wanted to hear, but at least I’m a bit more informed…
I remember scenarist from way back and how powerful it was even then. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a Mac version (I shouldn’t be that surprised since Apple backed HD-DVD but you’d think outside vendors would fill the void).
I could go with a VM solution if I had to I just prefer something a bit more OS integrated… there’s also the performance hit.
I’ll have to look into the DVD Logic suite too.
(taps foot patiently waiting for Larry to chime in…)
Brian
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Larry Applegate…..google him and send off an email 🙂
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Hi Brian,
Try to read this, I thik you will find more answers for your question. https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2011/02/Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,
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