[John Cuevas]

It actually works very easy, very intutitive.

You create in encore you menus. Button 1 links to videoA, Button2 Video B. Button 3 you want to link to a outside source, say a webpage, pdf…. You create a button, then link it to a blank timeline.

The next step is to create a DVD Folder from Encore. Then open eDVD, after picking your video.ts files, it will have a pulldown for each button in your menu. Select the button, then just follow the pulldowns to establish what you want to do.

After that all you do is burn the DVD and voila, DVD-Rom. The only drawback is that you need Interactive Player to access the DVD rom features. For computers that don’t have this, it will install upon being put in the DVD drive, but some people get all freaky about stuff like that.

[John Cuevas]

I’ll assume you meant me….

[John Cuevas]

I just created the effect in AE 6.5

Send me a quick email johnny@ckandco.net and I can send you the project, it would be easier for you to just look at it, then try to translate ayato.

When rendering, I would render the Fractal Precomp layer seperately first, with an alpha, then under post-action, use the “import and replace usage”

Cheers

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

All I could think of when he said “my old football coach called”…my old coach would be paying double…

Yeah, who’s laughing now Mr. Run some laps Cuevas!…

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

I’d take it.

Seriously I’ve heard of some people having problems with the Adrenaline, but it’s become the work horse in our shop. HD & SD, use it all day long. Crashes are extremely infrequent. The biggest problem we had was that RAM bug, but that’s been since corrected. I run it with photoshop and AE open all the time(though I know I shouldn’t)

Guess the only real issue that I have still is with firewire capture, that is goofy sometimes.

Sorry to hear about all your problems Grin.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

If you are looking at the boxes that flow around the video, that’s done by creating a mask, then applying Trapcodes 3d stroke and then applying trapcodes starglow.

Almost all of the lines moving throughout the piece were created using those 2 plugins.

Go to http://www.trapcode.com Aside from the plugins at a great price, he has tutorials that will show you exactly how those effects were done. You can demo them, to see if you like them.

[John Cuevas]

It is not, I have sent in a feature request asking for exactly this feature.

Guessing you ran into the same issue I have, you have an opening animation that you don’t want to see after playing the video. My solution was to create 2 menus.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

Tell you something about the avid cert classes.

I’d been editing on the avid systems since around 98, never felt the need to take any of the classes. Changed jobs in ’04 and my boss made it a point of always offering to send me to the classes on the company dime.

Found myself with some down time and took a two of them. 201 Avanced Techniques & 305 Avanced Effects.

Now after taking either of those classes, did I learn to do anything that I couldn’t already create or do. No. What I did learn though was so many different time saving tricks & techniques that have easily saved me 20% or more on my editing. I spent so much more time doing things, since I had taught myself, that were wasteful, redundant….

I’d reccomend them to anybody be it a new editor or one who’d been doing it for 6+ years like I had, you’ll definetely get something out of it. Course it helps to being doing it on someone else’s dime.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

If you go the route of bringing everything into photoshop, you would really save some time by just recording an action to resize your photo, then using the batch automate process to covert all 100 of them.

Course then you have to bill less. 🙂

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[John Cuevas]

Thought I would ask…thanks anyway…

For 3 years we have been talking HD, nobody wanted it. In 1 month we landed 5 HD projects. Everything is good except the deliverables, which are on every dang different format possible.

Was hoping that Adobe would be coming to my rescue very very soon.

Thanks Jeff, keep up the great work.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net