Jon Geddes
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Unfortunately Encore does not automatically place chapters at the very end of timelines during the build process of a Blu-ray disc like it does for DVD (bug?).
You can however set this up yourself by scrolling to the very end of each timeline and placing a chapter marker (it cannot be placed on the very last frame).
Doing this should correct your problem.
Jon Geddes
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Yes, the entire background would need to be a video. This is how all motion menus work; there is a rendered video for the background, and button highlights that overlay it.
I’m assuming your PSD is already configured as an Encore menu, with button groups prefixed with (+), etc. You should save that as a new file that will act as your button template. You can delete everything from that PSD except for the button layer groups and the highlight layers. Button layer groups are prefixed with (+), and highlight layers are prefixed with (=1), (=2), and/or (=3). Your PSD should also have a background layer, which can be all black or anything you want (it will be replaced by the rendered video).
Now import your full PSD into AE with the graphics, and remove the button highlights (they will not be rendered into the background). Place the 30 second video into the Polaroid, change it’s perspective if necessary, and render out (I recommend the Quicktime Animation codec).
In Encore, import the button template as a menu. Then import the rendered background from AE as an asset, and assign as the motion background for the menu. Your audio should also be the same duration as the video, and can even be rendered into the AE composition.
Jon Geddes
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Encore supports placing motion video into designated areas (drop zones) when they are buttons. If the Polaroid insert was in a button group, and you gave it a (%) prefix, you could then drag a chapter from a timeline into the region, and select “Animate Buttons” in the motion tab.
This of course means your 30 second video now becomes a button on the menu, and once selected, would start playing that video.
It doesn’t sound like this is what you want to do, and Encore was not designed to be a compositing program either. You should be using After Effects to place a video into the Polaroid.
Jon Geddes
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Remove the asset from the project, re-import, and re-link it.
I have seen this issue happen with assets that have been relocated. Even after “locating” the asset upon opening the project, it still won’t import it into the project and the media appears to be missing when it is selected. If you attempt to “replace asset” with the same file, it claims the file is already in the project, and won’t let you.
Jon Geddes
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I’m not sure what your budget is, but Rimage is one of the best. Costco uses them in all their photo centers for disc duplication.
Jon Geddes
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Pop-up graphic layers must be part of a button group. So if you wanted a graphic to extend behind multiple buttons, you will have to split up that graphic into multiple pieces, and place each piece into the button group that it lays over. If done properly, you will not see where the graphic is split up among the different buttons.
If you want to see an example, just download a pop-up menu from the Encore resource central.
Jon Geddes
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Great! Now others can learn from this as well.
Don’t worry, it’s very common for beginner Encore users to get carried away with using chapter end actions and overrides to achieve simple navigation configurations, when in fact they should rarely ever be used and only by advanced users who know exactly what they do for complex configurations.
Jon Geddes
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First, get rid of all the chapter end actions or any overrides that you might have. You don’t want to use those.
Your play all button should link to the timeline normally, and the timeline’s end action should go back to the main menu. Your Play All button is now complete.
As for the Chapter buttons, you want to create a “Chapter Playlist” for each button. So, for Chapter one, create a Chapter Playlist (not a regular playlist), and drag the first chapter of that timeline into it. Set an end action of the chapter Playlist to return to the main menu.
Repeat that for all the other chapters, creating a chapter playlist for each. Link the chapter buttons on the menu to it’s corresponding chapter playlist instead of the actual timeline itself.
Was this helpful? If you are creating a Blu-ray, chapter playlists will not work.
Jon Geddes
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I believe Encore limits Blu-ray subtitles to 2-bit graphics (same as DVD), and not the 8-bit that Blu-ray supports. It should still be high resolution though. Do you have a screenshot of what it looks like?
Jon Geddes
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Button highlights never get rendered into the background, and always appear over everything else.
You can make the highlight appear as if it is behind your text by cutting it out where the text shows through. Also, highlights are 2 bit graphics, which means the pixels are either full on, or full off… no possibility for anti-aliasing and smooth edges. Just something to keep in mind when erasing parts of the highlight where the text is.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com