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subpicture layer can’t be placed precisely over the text layer
Hi there from Amsterdam,
I try to make a menu in which a movie plays. After twelve seconds the written text-layers appear. This text is already put in the movie, made in premiere pro. So the words ‘movie’ and ‘chapters’ and ‘extra’ come up after 12 sec. Now I want the sublayers also be available after twelve seconds. So I exported a still-frame of the movie with the text from premiere into photoshop CS. I deleted the background and made a menu out of it with three buttons. This psd-file was then imported in encore. The loop point was set on twelve seconds and it works BUT the highlight subpictures appear far next to the text. Has it something to do with the aspect ratio and how can I solve this problem.
Thanks for the trouble …Dirk
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3 Replies
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Dirk,
Which settings/dimensions did you use in Photoshop CS? E.g. is the menu designed as 768×576 based on square pixels, or is it 720×576 based on a DV/D1 pixel aspect ratio?
Which version of Encore are you using?
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Hi there thanks for the respond.
By this respond I found out what to do:
1. first I made in photoshop CS a new file. A choose a preselected dimension called ‘pal d1/dv 720 by 576. Then I imported the snapshot made in premiere. ( although this snapshot has also the dimensions 720 by 576 it is smaller than the preselected dimension in photoshop. This has to do with the fact that the computer sees the pixels as square pixels and the video uses non square pixels)
2.I resized the imported frameshot so it fitted in the photoshop frame and then made a menu with buttons.
3. when I imported this menu in encore dvd 1,5 it corresponded exactly with the movie which I put as a background in this menu.( so this was the movie I took the snapshot from)Thanks for the pixel advice
Greetings Dirk -
Dirk,
If you exported the still from Premiere as 720×576 it should fit nicely in a “PAL DV/D1 720×576” image in Photoshop CS. Both should be using the same non-square pixels. (Since the introduction of CS, Photoshop can work with non-square pixels.) If it doesn’t fit, something is wrong, somehow…
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