Jeff Bellune
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Set the Menu Remote property for the timeline to link to the main menu.
Also, make sure that all overrides are removed from your project.
-Jeff
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The image didn’t show up.
If I understand you correctly, then here’s how I would do it:
1. Use the Edit in Photoshop command from Encore. Duplicate the text layer for the button in PS and rename it to (=1)TextHighlight.
2. Make sure the orange box layer is in the button layer set/group and rename it to (=2)OrangeBox. Save your changes.
3. Back in Encore, go to Menu>Edit Menu Color Set. Select the option to make a new color set and leave the name as Copy of Automatic (because you can’t edit the Automatic color set). Make sure that highlight group 1 has the following selected state colors:
1: Black. Set Opacity to give the text edges a not-too-jagged appearance. You can’t anti-alias highlight layers, so 0% may be an option (which would let the original text show through).
2: Orange (the color you want for your box). Set Opacity as desired, again to improve the appearance of the text edges.4. Set the Activated State colors as desired, using the same guidelines.
The result (as tested here) is that when the button is selected, the black (=1) highlight will cover and outline the text, and it will also cut out the shape of the text from the orange (=2) highlight layer.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[Jason Cork] “The default PAR for the PAL D1/DV Widescreen 720×576 setting is 1.46”
You must be using CS4. For CS4, Adobe brought all of the PAR values in all of its applications in line with the BBC standard. 1.422 was used in earlier versions, 1.4587, or 1.46, is used now.
-Jeff
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As long as you use a PAR of 1.422, the PAL D1/DV Widescreen 720×576 setting is appropriate.
The square pixel dimensions should be used when the menu will be manipulated in any program that doesn’t understand rectangular pixels. AE and En both understand rectangular pixels.
-Jeff
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Select one of your buttons in the Menu viewer. Look over at the Properties panel and check the option to “Create Text Subpicture”.
Does that give you what you want?
If not, please post a screen grab or mockup of the look that you are trying to achieve, and we should be able to help you out.
-Jeff
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I think this is something that needs to be corrected in the AME.
Try switching to VBR and setting the target bit rate to 15 Mbps. *Then* go back to CBR and set the bit rate to 15 Mbps. IIRC, it should stick this time.
-Jeff
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Make your corrections, then select all of the subtitles. Change the leading for the text, and then Undo.
The subtitle changes should appear on the finished disc after that.
-Jeff
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[jay krishnan] “I just hope it plays ok now.”
Let us know either way.
-Jeff
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A “DVD”, or DVD-Video disc is a very specific set of video and audio files put together in a very specific way. It is designed to be played back on hardware DVD players. That you can sometimes play it on some computers using a software DVD player or some other player like VLC or Windows Media Player is an additional benefit.
For computer-based playback, I recommend compressing your program to .wmv. Those types of files can be played on every Windows computer because Windows Media Player is part of the operating system.
You can burn the .wmv file to a blank data DVD, put it on a flash drive, email it to someone or send it over a network.
-Jeff
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In order to play DVD movies on a computer, that computer must have a software DVD player or a purchased MPEG2 decoder installed.
That is the responsibility of the end user, not the DVD author.
-Jeff
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