[Charles Muller]

Problem solved! I just watched the Videocopilot tutorial, and it finally all comes clear. Thanks very much to all of you who tried to help me out. I guess I just needed to actually see it to get it. Thanks everyone!

Charles

[Charles Muller]

Thanks again for all the help, but I am really pulling my hair out over this!!!!! I have read several tutorials, and watched the AdobeTV tutorial about 15 times, and it is still not working for me. Absolutely nothing I do in AFX will create a button for me in Encore, even following the AdobeTV step by step instructions.

Just as a test, I have tried creating a text layer in AFX, then selecting Layer -> Adobe Encore -> Create Button. When I have imported the AFX Comp through Dynamic Link and Option-dragged it onto the menu, the comp shows up, but it is impossible for me to select that text as a button.

Am I missing something really obvious here????? Because I would think that selecting Create Button would actually create a button. As I said, I’ve read and watched a lot of tutorials, and from what I can tell, this should be fairly straightforward.

Help, please!!!!!

[Charles Muller]

Hi Jon, thanks for the quick response. I tried what you suggested (importing the AFX Comp through Dynamic Link), and it works, up to a point. Then animation happens, and after it lands, my text buttons (created in AFX) dissolve in, as they are supposed to… but that’s it. I can’t figure out how to make those 2 bits of text become buttons????

[Charles Muller]

Hi Matthew, thanks for responding. I’m trying what you suggested, but obviously I’m just not understanding something here. Let me outline what I did, and hopefully you can pinpoint my error:

I rendered out my animation in AFX as a DVD MPEG file.
I created a Photoshop PSD with 2 text layers as buttons and saved it.
In Encore, I imported the PSD as a Menu item.
In Encore, I imported the AFX render as an Asset.
I selected my Menu PSD, and ALT-dragged the AFX render into it, as my motion background.
In my Menu, I linked the buttons to their corresponding timelines.
With my Menu selected, I went under Dynamic Link -> New AFX Composition.
Now, in AFX, the composition is there, but there is no BG video, no buttons, absolutely nothing! Shouldn’t my Menu PSD with buttons, and the background video layer be in the sequence????

I hope this makes sense, and any help would be greatly appreciated! I’ve been working on this for the past several hours and just can’t make any sense of it. Thanks.

[Charles Muller]

I’m having the same issue, but I’ve read this thread and still can’t figure out exactly what to do. My issue is I have a 10sec AFX movie that I want to be my main menu. The animation ends at about the 5 second mark, and then two text layers dissolve in that I want to be buttons. I have created this animation going through Menu -> Create After Effects Composition. Back in Encore, I can only see the first frame of the animation, so I can’t see the buttons at this point because they are invisible. So, should I add the text buttons in AFX, or in Encore? Can you help me out? Thanks.

[Charles Muller]

Thanks for the help! The problem was indeed the mislabelled OMFI folder.