Joe Bowden
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Very cool.
Would you mind sharing which tool you combined the AC3 files with (for future reference)?
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[Michael DeTerra] “My problem is the text I created in Photoshop for the captions does not translate well into encore, or something, and only the text appears pixelated…the picture is fine. “
So the text was actually part of the image file? What was the point/pixel size used?
And this was exported to DVD from Encore, correct?
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A button PSD should have group/layer set with the (+) prefix, and no background layer.
You import this file into the Library panel (not the project), and it should be recognized as a button.
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[David Andrews] “I actually have 5 .m2v video files and 5 .ac3 audio files which I have placed one after another on the main timeline. “
That’s your problem, right there.
AC3 files have null data blocks at the end of their file structure. When they are added together in a timeline, they will gradually introduce a loss of sync with video.
In order to address this problem, Encore decompresses multiple AC3 files in a timeline to raw audio, and then recompresses these clips into a single AC3 file, which eliminates the problem with a loss of synchronization if otherwise unaddressed.
The problem is of course that Encore’s AC3 encoder is Dolby Digital 2.0 only, and this is why your clips are being re-transcoded.
The solution is either to combine the 5.1 AC3 files elsewhere to a single 5.1 AC3 file (sorry, I don’t have any specific suggestions, but there may be freeware tools that can do this – start at videohelp.com), or use separate timelines for each video/audio pair.
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Are you authoring to DVD or Blu-ray?
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What did you have in mind for interactivity and content?
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Glad to hear you solved it. This method is actually better than using a layered menu a la DVDSP. Layered menus rely on creating duplicate menus for different button states, and may show performance issues on some players, and don’t behave as expected in software DVD players (you must click to activate the button to go to the next button “state”).
Regarding using the “punch out” method: try Load Selection using the text layer next time, modify the selection in whatever way you want…much quicker than trying to select color ranges. Then select the highlight layer and delete the selection.
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Jeff’s suggestion is a good way, but I was thinking of something a bit more straightforward:
Leave the text in the menu as a text layer, but alter the highlight layer (the rectangle) to “punch out” the text layer.
So from Encore, select Edit in Photoshop, and then load the text layer as a selection. Then select the highlight layer, and hit the delete key to “punch out” the shape of the text in the highlight layer. Save the file, and then return to Encore.
You should be able to test this right in the Menu Editor by turning on “Display Button Highlights” or whatever Encore labels that button at the bottom of the editor panel.
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Have you got Photoshop?
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Do a search for “Fab Image Script” on the web…that should turn up a few hits that may help.