[John Rich]

Edward,
Thanks for the reply. Is there a tutorial you can recommend to get me started?

I’m really rusty, so I’d probably have to relearn Illustrator again.

John

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[John Rich]

After re-reading your original post, I’m not sure what you’re doing going from “chapter button” to Menu button.
If you want to go from the Play All-Scene Select menu to the Scene Select menu, then you select the scene select buton and add the transition and make sure the button targets the Scene Select menu.
Using CS5, I’ve had that work many times without problems and no problems with sound in the transistion.

The other thing I do is burn a DVD folder with Encore and use Imgburn to make the DVD.

If there’s someway to attatch a screen capture of the flowchart it might be helpful.
John

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[John Rich]

In AE I just use uncompressed .avi(of course, making sure your comp size is correct) and then import it into Encore as asset. Then when you build the DVD, Encore converts it to MPEG2.

You may have to redo the whole project with a different file name, but you might also get away with just using the replace footage function in the project window (use different file name for your .avi transition).
John

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[John Rich]

Have you tried rendering your transition out as an .avi file?
John Rich

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[John Rich]

You need to make the button a “group” ie create a group and name it (+) Play.
Then in the group you put your text and a layer named (=1) Highlight and put your highlight on that group.

You could look at this to get an idea https://vimeo.com/album/214460/video/11034327

John Rich

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[John Rich]

Bob,
Here is a screen capture of an Encore project I put together, which might be something like you are describing.

https://vimeo.com/album/214775/video/14086588

You could put the button names on the left of the screen instead of the way I have them set up.

If I missed the point, let me know please.

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[John Rich]

Do you mean you want more details of menu construction, etc?

I was thinking that it would be better to have your narrator record each of his descriptions of the people and then put this audio together with the picture on the Premiere timeline. That way, you wouldn’t have to use the menu button. Then each narration would return to the menu using the end action of the narration.

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[John Rich]

Nathan,
If I understand correctly, you want a menu with a motion background.

Then you have several buttons, each which will represent a person’s name.

When you click on the selected name, you will activate a button transition and then bring up a still picture of the person which will run while the narrator talks about this person.

The timeline or chapter playlist with just a picture in it will have as it’s end action to return to the menu .

Then the narrator can move to the next button(person) and then click it and repeat, etc.

You will have to make the still pictures in Premiere as well as the buton transition and motion background.

You would have to make the duration of the picture longer than the narration.
You could return to the menu with the Menu button on the DVD remote.

I haven’t actually tried this, but does this make sense?

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[John Rich]

I read your other post.
Unless you have confirmed the “black lines” by actually burning a disk which shows them, then I would wonder if this isn’t just an artifact of the reviewer in Encore.

Have you actually burned a disk (just a small project with the menu you mentioned)?

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[John Rich]

What I would try is to put a feathered hole in your picture and then replace the area behind the hole with the video you want.

John Rich

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