Jon Geddes
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How does it not work? Does the PC have flash installed? If it is running through internet explorer, often times it will not load flash content by default off the local drive due to security precautions.
Jon Geddes
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If you edited your footage in Premiere, then you should have specified the framerate of the entire movie, and the format that was different from your sequence would have been converted. You should then be encoding in the same framerate as your sequence without issues.
You should only have problems if you try dropping two different framerates/resolutions into a single Encore timeline.
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I’m pretty sure the HDMI port is an output only, but you should confirm that on your own.
I don’t think you would be able to feed the laptop a video feed through an HDMI to USB converter, but that is just my educated guess.
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Just as an example of what I’m talking about, here is our latest “White Wedding” template with sample video/images placed in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWa3Evz6L68
The preview leaves out: the entire 50 second main menu, 30 second scene selection menu, and 30 second special features menu. It only plays through the transitions. The reason the video plays seamlessly, is because it is designed to loop every 50 seconds.
The beginning of the loop starts at the beginning of the Main Menu. So during the 10 second intro sequence (before the main menu starts), it actually plays the last 10 seconds of the loop.
Then, once the transition to the Scene Selection starts, the loop is at the beginning again. So after the 10 second transition to the Scene Selection Menu, then the full 30 second duration of the Scene Selection Menu, and finally the 10 second transition back to the main menu, the loop is back to the beginning, and perfectly aligned with the beginning of the main menu. (10sec + 30sec + 10sec = 50sec)
It might be kind of confusing reading it like this, so you might want to watch our product video tutorials which will take you through the after effects project. The product tutorials are freely available from the tutorial section of our website.
Jon Geddes
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Paul,
Our menus do not do anything special to overcome the linear limitations of the DVD and Blu-ray format. If you have a video playing in the dropzone box, it will still jump back to the beginning once the transition starts, however the rest of the menu will remain seamless. Also, you can easily mask the jump in the dropzone by either using a still image instead of a video, or by having frequent cuts in your video (instead of long slow dissolves).
As for a sample which shows what the menu looks like with video placed into the dropzones, there is a link just below the preview for each menu which will take you to an HD youtube video of one.
For our Pro Motion Menu Kits, After Effects CS3 or above is required to render the menus, and Photoshop is required to customize the Cover and Label templates. You can use any authoring application of your choice, however we only offer customer support for Encore and DVD Studio Pro.
We are currently working on a new product line of kits that use Static Menus, do not require AE, and include the matching Cover and Label templates.
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Jon Geddes
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The short answer: No.
The only codec DVD’s support is mpeg2. You should use a bitrate calculator to find out how much content you can fit on the disc. I wouldn’t encode lower than 4 mbps. I personally don’t encode lower than 5, but 4 might be acceptable for your needs. Remember to use 2-pass VBR encoding.
If you use a calculator, you will see than at 4 mbps, you can fit approximately 2hrs 20min on a single layer DVD (192 kbps audio).
If you lower the audio quality to 128 kbps, you can get an extra 4 minutes of video.
Jon Geddes
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For industry leading motion menu templates, you should visit: https://www.precomposed.com
We provide a variety of themes for different projects, and you might be interested in our “Retro Fusion” design for corporate use. New designs are always being released, so feel free to submit ideas and suggestions for a future menu.
Our menus are designed to be used with Encore or DVD Studio Pro, however we highly recommend using Encore. Complete walkthrough video tutorials are available for all our products from the Tutorial Section of our website.
Jon Geddes
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You could use an existing template from Encore that has video buttons, then go into Photoshop and just remove them, retaining the rest of the design. You would probably want to chose a template that would still look appropriate after removing the video buttons.
While not exactly free, we offer DVD and Blu-ray motion menu templates for use in Encore and DVD Studio Pro. Our menus are used by nationally acclaimed wedding filmmakers and video production companies. We offer them at an extremely good price, and might have just what you are looking for.
Jon Geddes
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Using the chapter index feature is discussed in our Encore video tutorial for our Pro Motion Menu Kit products.
The tutorial will demonstrate how to setup a chapter index so that the buttons take the names of the chapters they are linked to, and how to properly configure the next / previous buttons to work correctly.
The tutorial can be accessed from the tutorial section of our website under “Product Tutorials”. Select any menu, then chose the Encore tutorial from the dropdown.
Jon Geddes
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You should not be using the dynamic link feature if you are encoding it first. The dynamic link feature acts like a frame server, it just provides uncompressed frames to Encore and does not provide the original h.264 file from your Premiere timeline.
If you have already transcoded it, using Adobe Media Encoder, then you can import that transcoded h264 video directly into Encore and it will not have to re-transcode.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com