All-missouri
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By changing the button type you can help yourself out greatly if you are creating chapter menus. If you set up a menu with proper buttons set as chapter, previous, and next, you are able have Encore generate menus for you very quickly. It is quite powerful once you wrap your head around it.
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When people give me footage on a DVD like that I use a program called DVD Decryptor to extract the VOBs. After fiddling with the settings, it extract each video file, merge back to its full length if it was split into 1Gb intervals and it will split it into audio and video files fairly quickly.
As for menus and subtitles, I haven’t dealt with those in this way, sorry.
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Open up explorer and go to the folder which you have your project saved in. Open the folder with the same name as your project. You should see another folder called Sources. Inside, there should be a subfolder named Menus.
Hopefully, the bandit of a menu will be hiding in there and you can simply delete it.
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Okay, I wasn’t quite sure which aspect you were going for, but now that I know.. here’s what you do.
As John pointed out, the best approach is to create a separate menu for each button that is selected. For instance, if you have 8 polaroids, then you will have 8 menus.
In each menu, the text in the lower left will not be in any layer sets and it will reflect which button is selected.
Also on each buttons menu, set it up so that it will have a moving video in the picture while the others are all stills. -
https://www.freewebs.com/pilotdvd/Polaroid%5FMenu.psd
Hopefully clicking on that will let you download a sample I did pretty quickly. Hopefully that gives you some guidance.
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Nevermind most of what I said in that post. Take the white part of the polaroid out of the layerset though. Leave the layer that takes the video and the highlight. That should make the button small enough so that it doesn’t interfere with it’s neighbors.
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The red boxes that are showing up are because the buttons are too close together, as you know. I way to get around this is to not include the entire snapshot as a button. What might be the best way to keep most of the picture in the button “area” is to create an “empty” layer for each button in Photoshop and not include the actual polaroid in the layer set. With the “empty” layer, create a box and set the fill to zero. In Encore, resize that layer to take up how big you want the actual clickable area for the button to be. If you have problems understanding this let me know and I should be able to send you a PSD that shows the technique a little bit more.
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I have not seen the Menu that you are talking about. I would love to tackle your problem if you could describe what is so interesting with it or even perhaps post a picture.
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What I would do, and some people may disagree with my philosophy, is take any related segments and put them in timelines together.
For menus, I would do one menu for each timeline, having a button for each segment in that timeline. Then set the end action of each chapter to go back to the menu. (Do not put an end action if it is the last chapter of a timeline, simply put the end action on the timeline)
For a play all effect, if you choose to go that way, create Chapter Playlists for each of the timelines and link those in a way that suits your fancy in a regular playlist.
Let me know if this helps at all.