[John Rich]

You could try using a “button Transition” using the menu as a background and making the rest of your animation in After Effects.

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[John Rich]

It sounds like “you’re the man”. About what was the duration of the HD footage?

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[John Rich]

I found Crib Menu HD (1920×1080) under General – Menus and when I imported it into my project it came in with BabyRoom Motion menu.Mov (1280×720) about 29 sec long and the motion menu was already imbedded.

Crib Menu HD previewed after Rendering Motion Menus, perfectly including navigation. I then burned a bluRay folder of just the menu and its motion background. I then edited the folder (necessary to get it to play on my PS3), and burned the folder to a DVD+R disk and it plays perfectly on my PS3 on my TV, Motion and navigation.

Not to be insulting, but you are Rendering the Motion menu before you preview it, and you are trying to burn the image file you are creating to a DVD so you can check it in your player?
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[John Rich]

What I would do is go to the library and find a HD menu. They may come with a motion background. You could try that just to see if you can get that to work.
Did you increase the still menu size also?
Actually, what I have done successfully, is to take a “Wide screen” SD menu with the motion menu, increase the menu itself to 1920×108 in Photoshop and increase the size of the motion menu in Cineform to 1980×1080, which worked well. I’ve not done this in AE. Does the motion menu play in Win Media player?
Just experiment to see if you can get it to work.
Then I would burn a BluRay Image as you have done and then just use your regular DVD burner on your laptop and use ImgBurn to burn the project (a small experimental less than 20 min project) to a regular DVD-+R disk and play it on your BluRay player to see how it looks.
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[John Rich]

Thanks for your answer. I redid the project and for some reason, now Encore generated an appropriately sized file. I haven’t tested whether this is necessary or not, but I copied and renamed the file to some file outside of the root file of the project. You’re right about Window Media player 10 which I have. It still won’t play it so it’s probably something in my system.
Thanks again,
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[John Rich]

You can try “Simple Motion Menu” at jmrser.com and see it that helps.

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[John Rich]

Personally, I would just let encore do the encoding automatically.
In the “Build” window, make sure you have your destination set where you want it and name the project in the “Disc” window.

Then there is a dropdown which say either BluRay or DVD. Select BluRay. Right below this is another dropdown, which says Image, Folder or Disk. That’s where you get the folder.

If you’re going to play your test on PS3, you have to edit the folder, and that’s what my tutorial is all about.

Also, you would probably want to select H264 for your encoding. I think this is done by File-Project settings -Encoding.
Again, since you are just doing a short (less than 10 min) project here, I would chose MPEG2 rather than H264 which supposedly would short encoding time, and then you could see if you could do the whole thing with MPEG2.
Just my thoughts.
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[John Rich]

Marc,
You really don’t need a bluray burner to make those short test images. You do need a bluray player or Playstation3. though.

Check out this thread and tutorial and you might find it useful.
https://www.wrigleyvideo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29665

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[John Rich]

Well, what I would do assuming you are going to use a BluRay project and have all the correctly sized menus is render out a few short work areas of various parts of your file and import them into Encore.

Since I use Cineform for everything except rendering in Encore I can’t be any help there, but you could look at message #9 here for some idea if you don’t know what you want there
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b4ecf5/10

Then I’d just burn a short BluRay folder and image using that stuff .
That will give you some idea of what your stuff will look like on disk. I always use MPEG2 and not H264 when I have Encore automatically encode the project but …

Naturally, you should burn the disk. For what it’s worth I always us IMgBurn to burn either the folder to BD-RE which will play on a PS3 as well as a BluRay player, or burn the Folder(after editing) again with ImBurn to a regular disk (to save cost) which will play on the PS3.
I guess you could see how it looks on your HDtv and go from there with the exporting, but I have been happy with the way I do it (which I copied off various other guys particularly at the cineform forum).
Why are you using After Effects to encode?
I’d like to know how it goes so I could learn something also.
Thanks,
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[John Rich]

Phil,

Any luck burning a dual layer BluRay disk yet?

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