[John Rich]

Burn a DVD folder with Encore. On the Build tab, select DVD folder under the “Output”. This will write the folder to your computer.

Then google IMGBurn and download Imgburn and use it to burn the dvd folder to a DVD. IMBburn is free. Better than Nero IMHO.

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[John Rich]

If you want to have your moving buttons have moving thumbnail pictures in them, you have to make a motion background which shows the buttons moving into position and then remaining stable for the remainder of the menu. You make the buttons active by setting the loop point for a time after the buttons settle into position.

To make your button thumbnails, you have to create a short clip for each thumbnail and scale it down to fit into the button.

If I’m reading correctly and you have trouble with the idea, let me know and I could try to put together a screen capture.

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Sorry, I’m an idiot. When I played the title back in Windows Media Player, there was a background, but when I put the title in Premiere the alpha channel was perfect.
I didn’t remember the background being in WMP before.

John

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[John Rich]

Here’s a link which explains Cineform better than I can. Check out
the “sticky thread” #4 and near the beginning is a thorough description. I’m not sure how well it works with a Mac, but according to this link it can work. Basically, it converts the AVCHD files to .AVI or .MOV files and also scales them pretty well (I think) as well as doing color correction, etc.
https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/cineform-software-showcase/

It might be worth your while to post a question over there to see what they say about Mac’s.

Also, interestingly, Jeff Bellune, just finished two video tutorials using the freeware virtualdub, etc which might be helpful.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/546075?tstart=0
I would like to know how you work this out.

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Tom,
I assume you are using PremPro CS4 and some type of AVCHD footage on a Windows machine. Did you get your original settings from Jeff Bellune’s excellent tutorial ?

Another way you could do downscaling is with a Cineform product, although it is a little pricey. Here is a long discussion of that
https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/cineform-software-showcase/467607-hdv-dvd.html

Here is Jeff’s link
https://bellunevideo.com/tutorials/CS4_HD2SD/CS4_HD2SD.html
Hopefully Jeff will have Dan Isaac’s method put together in a video tutorial soon.
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Carl,
Since you have PRemiere PRo cs4, why don’t you try this tutorial by Jeff Bellune to make your downscaling to use your 1920×1080 60i footage for a SD DVD.

https://bellunevideo.com/tutorials/CS4_HD2SD/CS4_HD2SD.html

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Wow.
This may fit together nicely with Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on making a 3D bar graph he just did.
Thanks again Serge.
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Nelson,
Since I only have Invigorator Pro I can only describe what I did, but it may apply to Proanimator. I made a basic sphere and put it in one set. Then I made the text and put it in the same set. Since the center is the middle of the sphere, when I cause the set to rotate both text and sphere rotate together. Then I made a new material from the “matte” material and put it on the sphere which makes the sphere invisible.

Then I made an earth globe from CC Sphere and rotated it as well. As long as the original zax sphere was about the same size as the CC sphere, the text seems to rotate around the CC sphere being invisible behind it.
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Andy,

I’ve never used Premiere for this. When you said picture gallery, I assumed you meant a slide show type thing. Since you have hundreds of images, it just seemed a lot of work to set it up in Premiere. While you can set a single transition for each one in Premiere, in ProSho, you can set random transitions and it also has a variety of more elaberate transitions. You then generate the DVD directly in ProSho. You can set the sound track to directly reflect the length of the slideshow ie set a slide / second automatically.
(Sorry to ramble and I don’t have any connection to Proshow, I just like it for slide shows).

If you wanted to use an Adobe Product, I’d consider After Effects per this tutorial https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/elegant_slideshows/
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[John Rich]

What I’d consider, since you are only doing a slide show is using ProShow Gold instead of Encore.

You could try a free trial. They also have tutorials, and sort of “Presets” which are interesting, but I don’t think there are trials of the presets or tuts.

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