[John Rich]

I was just messing around with this, and to me it appears that one cannot have a video button on either side of the menu with the ” selected button” as the button link has to go to another menu with autoactivate selected. However, if you have eight buttons, then 6 of them could have button motion.

YOu might be able to get around this, by creating short clips of your destination movie for the two contiguous buttons, and then shrinking them in Preiere or AE and using this as a motion background. I think I’ll put this together as a screen capture, and if you want to see it let me know.
John

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[John Rich]

I was just messing around with this, and to me it appears that one cannot have a video button on either side of the menu with the ” selected button” as the button link has to go to another menu with autoactivate selected. However, if you have eight buttons, then 6 of them could have button motion.

YOu might be able to get around this, by creating short clips of your destination movie for the two contiguous buttons, and then shrinking them in Preiere or AE and using this as a motion background. I think I’ll put this together as a screen capture, and if you want to see it let me know.
John

JOHNR

[John Rich]

I was just messing around with this, and to me it appears that one cannot have a video button on either side of the menu with the ” selected button” as the button link has to go to another menu with autoactivate selected. However, if you have eight buttons, then 6 of them could have button motion.

YOu might be able to get around this, by creating short clips of your destination movie for the two contiguous buttons, and then shrinking them in Preiere or AE and using this as a motion background. I think I’ll put this together as a screen capture, and if you want to see it let me know.
John

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[John Rich]

I was just messing around with this, and to me it appears that one cannot have a video button on either side of the menu with the ” selected button” as the button link has to go to another menu with autoactivate selected. However, if you have eight buttons, then 6 of them could have button motion.

YOu might be able to get around this, by creating short clips of your destination movie for the two contiguous buttons, and then shrinking them in Preiere or AE and using this as a motion background. I think I’ll put this together as a screen capture, and if you want to see it let me know.
John

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[John Rich]

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[John Rich]

One way to do it might be to make eight different menus and use auto-activate to connect them. Check out a tutorial by Dave Garrett (google “Doogs” ) called “full color subpicture highlights” under the Encore 1.5 section, for a nice discussion.
I never used the second menu that Dave uses here for the “activated” state” and it seems to work ok.

John

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[John Rich]

Matt,

Thanks a lot for your info. The overwriting idea came from Adobe sales, but my experience has been the same as yours.

I haven’t downloaded a recent Invigorator Pro version (I can’t remember which one I have now). However, if I wanted to download the version that is compatible with AE CS3 running on Windows XP would I have to pay extra for that?

THanks,
John

[John Rich]

George,
Thanks again. You are making me think I made a mistake getting wrapped up in Encore 4 years ago. Overall, can Encore do stuff these other programs can’t? It seems pretty cool, but then the only thing I’ve compared it to is MyDVD.

John

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[John Rich]

George,
Thanks for the great idea. I guess I thought, though, if he wanted to make it as seamless as possible, then putting the selection time toward the end of the background movie would do that job.
Am I correct in assuming that all the programs that have the BOV capabilities are in the 10,000 dollar range?
Thanks again.
John

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[John Rich]

If you look at this tutorial (the Encore part of the moving lights tutorial) this might be what you want. jmrser.com. (Click Tutorials)

You would have to use the movie during which you want the selection to take place to be the background movie for the menu and you could only have the selection take place at the end part of the movie and not in the middle.
John