[Jim Sphar]

Vince,

Thanks again for responding to my problem. No joy here, either — the tape was recorded on DSR 1800 decks, and comes in 4:3. Since it was shot for widescreen, I go to Interpret Footage on each clip and conform it to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2121).

Nine of the 11 batch-captured tapes came in at DV resolution, 720×480, and conformed to widescreen properly. Two of the clips were captured from the tape at 1280×480, and conformed in PP to 655×480.

This was clearly an error in the CS5 capture software. The solution was to re-capture the two clips, and re-capturing them corrected the error.

I will be reporting this problem to Adobe, and appreciate your attempts to help.

–Jim Sphar

[Jim Sphar]

Vince,

Thanks for responding. The material recorded is not HDV, it is NTSC DV Widescreen, 720×480 PAR 1.21.

–Jim Sphar

[Jim Sphar]

I think I figured it out. I was not adding the proper subpicture layers to the button layer.

Thanks,

–Jim

[Jim Sphar]

Thanks for your answer, Joe. I verified that setting the loop point does make the button appear, but when I bring that comp into Encore it does not show a layer button that can be linked. It shows the “MENU” button on-screen, but I can’t select it so I can’t link it or work with it at all.

So I rendered out an .avi as you suggested. When I ALT+DRAG the .avi to the blank menu, and set the loop point, I get the menu to play as it should but with no button. So I deleted the button in AE, re-rendered and tried to add the button by editing the menu in PS. That gives me a button layer, but it doesn’t seem to activate.

From reading your posts on this forum, you seem to be really skilled with Encore. Can you suggest what I might still be doing wrong?

Thanks again.

–Jim