Joe Bowden
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Not possible in Encore. Probably not possible in the DVD-Video format, either.
A menu is a menu- if you don’t want a user to select anything until everything has played, then make it a timeline with an end action linking to your menu.
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NTSC and PAL have different pixel aspect ratios, so there would be some distortion if you used one format menu in both formats.
However, if you made your menus in a square pixel aspect ratio (sized for PAL), you could use it in either format and only have to worry about cropping in NTSC. Maybe that helps?
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Not sure about this, but I think you can only use the menus provided in Premiere if you are exporting to DVD from there.
That said, as I mentioned earlier, the trial version of Premiere cannot export to DVD.
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Oh, and of course:
6. Burn DVD from Encore
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The Premiere Pro trial doesn’t write DVDs.
You can use the Encore trial (or Encore itself), but you construct the DVD project from within Encore. So your workflow would be:
1. Capture video in Premiere
2. Edit video in Premiere
3. Export Premiere sequence to AVI
4. Import AVI into Encore
5. Create DVD project in Encore with menus, etc.Hope it helps,
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There is no anti-aliasing of subpicture highlights on a DVD…that’s what you’re seeing.
Choose an arrow design that looks satisfactory when you preview the menu in Encore- then you’ll be good to go. If that’s not possible, consider doing more work with an extra subpicture layer (=2) that is just an outline, and set it at a lower opacity to “fake” anti-aliasing.
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If you want to use images instead of subpicture highlighting, you will have to create a separate menu for each button, and then link each button to the next menu, which can get tedious if you have several buttons.
Note that using images for button highlights is working around the limitations of the DVD-Video specification. I would not recommend doing this (due to the amount of work it takes and some overall compatibility issues) unless it is absolutely crucial.
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Encore is a DVD authoring tool…it doesn’t do CDs. Sorry.
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Create a poster frame from the chapter, wherever on the timeline that you want it.
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You have motion menus that are greater than 1 GB. How many menus are in your project? How many of them have music?