Jeff Bellune
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Try adding a new blank menu from the Library to the project, then Alt+Drag the AE comp from the Project panel to the Menu viewer. Do a Preview From Here on the menu.
What happens?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I dynamically-linked the AE comp to a PAL Encore project, and then set the comp as the motion background for the menu. Encore’s preview played it perfectly with no black frame.
I did not build the project nor burn it to disc.
If you have rendered the motion menu and then adjusted the length of the menu, Encore may be using the old rendered file version for preview and build. Try moving one or more buttons on the menu, re-rendering, and then moving the buttons back (move, don’t undo) and rendering again.
Do you have audio for the menu? What is its length compared to the video?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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This seems to require some more troubleshooting in After Effects. Can you post links to the AE project file and the Photoshop file/layers? I understand completely if there are client privacy issues that would prevent that.
However, without the AE project, I’m just flying blind and can only guess at what might be wrong.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Is the last frame in the AE comp black? Or is it grey? This is important because black means that you have run out of footage. Grey means that you have navigated the cursor past the end of the comp.
The tutorial is correct; a five-second PAL comp runs from time 00:00 to time 4:24. This does not affect the rendered length of the comp it will still be 5 seconds) – it only affects the timecode display in the comp.
So what color is the frame at time 4:24?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Double-check the start/end frames of the footage in the AE composition, the composition length and the length of the work area. The work area won’t affect the length of the comp in Encore, but it will affect the RAM preview in AE.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Burn a test RW disc and test it in a hardware and/or software DVD player. Encore’s preview is usually slower than “real” DVD players when menus loop, timelines change, etc.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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The subpicture highlight layers act like cookie cutters on the other subpicture layers below them. No chance for any blending with the other layers. DVD format limitation, not an Encore limitation.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You may not be able to perform a Replace Asset on a dynamically -linked Pr sequence.
(One possible reason is that since you can change the sequence in Pr and have those changes immediately appear in En, the need to Replace Asset just isn’t there. However, that logic discounts the need to troubleshoot and work around any issues that may arise with the new feature.)
I haven’t tried to do this before now, and since linking a Pr sequence is new to CS4, the community’s collective knowledge about the feature is still mostly limited to Adobe’s promo materials and the help files.
What happens if you delete the Pr sequence from the timeline and then drop the old .m2v file into it?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[Matthew Sienzant] “Playback on a widescreen source looks perfect. Its playing back on a fullscreen source that effs it all up. Even within Encore’s playback feature, it letter boxes the footage as it should.”
Check the DVD Players. They may be set up incorrectly. Each hardware DVD player needs to be told what kind of TV it is hooked up to – 4:3 or 16:9.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0