Jon Geddes
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We did lots of this in our latest Pro Motion Menu Kit, titled “Regal Cinema”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPtJKfvodM
A good way to do it is apply an adjustment layer above all your other layers, then use multiple glow effects on it. You might try one glow with just a vertical direction, then a second more diffused with horizontal and vertical. Just keep playing with it until you get the results you want. It also helps to have a light in the scene and make your layers 3D. You can then tweak the material options of your layers for a more realistic look.
In our menu above, we also added a wiggle to the intensity of the light for a more natural flickering of fire / candlelight.
Jon Geddes
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Well it may not be a codec issue, as you seem to have a different error than the one I specified.
What I would do is try and narrow down the problem. You can do this by turning off the “Animate Buttons” and see if that fixes it. If not, then you can try saving your project as a new one, then start removing menus one at a time until you find the culprit.
Once you identify the problem menu or setting, it will make solving it much easier.
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I forgot to document the exact error message that I received on a 24p menu, however it was not for 720p, it was 1920×1080 if that makes any difference.
What is the exact error message you are getting?
Is it “..\Port\PhotoshopObject.cpp-568”?
If so, this is usually Encore telling you it is unable to render animated menu buttons, usually because of a 3rd party mpeg codec that is installed on the system that doesn’t work with Encore.
Third party MPEG codecs usually come with media players and encoders such as VLC, FF Mpeg, Flask Mpeg, etc. They replace your default mpeg codec with one that is suppose to be better, however it often messes up Encore which requires the original to function properly.
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I just posted a link on my blog here that takes you to the CS5 help files. In the help files, you can read in detail how each feature works in Encore CS5 and the other apps.
The flash export feature has been improved, with more formats (HD) and a much better player (the interface used to control the flash video).
You can now transcode your imported videos through AME, just like Premiere does.
The multi-page Blu-ray menu looks interesting, as it says it is for Pop-up or regular menus. It does state that animated buttons are not supported on multi-page menus.
Go check it out.
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Charles,
Please read my response, as it does elaborate on how to achieve the second method.
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We demonstrated this effect in our latest Pro Motion Menu Kit: 07 – White Wedding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWa3Evz6L68
In the sample video, we inserted still images for the scene selection menu, but you can just as easily insert video.
To have the video playing during the transition and the actual menu, it will all have to be rendered in After Effects, and you will have to disable the (%) Layer in the Encore menu.
Import your video into After Effects, and line up the start of the chapters with the start of the transition (or wherever you would like them to start). Render out the transition and entire motion menu, import into Encore, then set as the motion background of the menu. You will also need to set the loop point if you transition is part of your motion background.
If you are interested in learning more about how we create our motion menu templates, you are welcome to watch the complete product tutorials from the tutorial section of our website. They are freely available to everyone.
Jon Geddes
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Someone asked the same question a while back and I briefly explained how I achieved the effect for our Texture Pack promo video:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/949789
The video can be seen here (the dust is at the very beginning of the video):
https://www.precomposed.com/products/texture_packs/
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Export as mpeg2 i-frame, 100 mbps.
Use DGIndex to create a d2v file for HC Encoder. If you are using HD footage, I highly recommend using avisynth and the methods in this article:
https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/07/hd-to-sd-dvd-best-methods/
You might be particularly interested in the video tutorial of this process recorded by Jeff Bellune here:
https://bellunevideo.com/tutorials/hd2sdTutorial/hd2sd.html
In the tutorial, it walks you through the steps of exporting to mpeg2 i-frame from Premiere.
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Pauley,
The only gotchas I can think of is that when you use an external mpeg2 encoder, the chapter markers do not transfer over. Besides that, everything should work just as expected.
When using HC Encoder and a high bitrate, the FOX1 color matrix looks much better than the default (less blockiness).
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CS5 comes out in just a few days… If you can wait a little bit, I’m sure you can find someone on ebay selling their CS4 for less.
Jon Geddes
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