Jon Geddes
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Usually an obstacle like you are describing is tackled with creative editing, not in the authoring process. If you need to see all the detail of a dress, you could either position the title/lower third in a place that doesn’t obscure, or you could do an interesting freeze frame effect (maybe even add some nice color treatment to the freeze) and then animate the titles in, animate out, then unfreeze, without actually covering up any of the video.
By the way, no, it is not possible to do what you are wanting to do with the subtitle overlay in the authoring process.
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It was likely burned at too fast of a speed or the media used was of poor quality.
If you are able to extract the data off using a computer, it might be able to get all the data off those bad sectors, and you should be able to burn it without the glitches/freezes. If you computer is unable to read the bad sectors just as your playstation is, then you will have dropouts in the video, but at least the freezing will be gone.
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If I recall correctly, the flash export creates separate video clips for each chapter, so that you can skip to the next one easily (I guess they couldn’t figure out how to do it more efficiently). This structure creates a problem when playing back, as you will notice a slight pause or jump at each chapter point as it loads the next video.
The flash export feature of Encore is still in it’s infancy. It really needs a lot of work before it’s ready for practical use. It could really be a great feature if they designed it better, such as seamless playback over chapter markers, ability to load the menu structure before any of the video clips, dvd controls (pause, play, stop, menu, arrow keys, chapter next, chapter previous, fast forward, rewind, etc.), full screen mode… I could go on all day.
My advice would be to place the chapter markers as places that wont be as noticeable, or leave out the chapter markers entirely, or just leave them and deal with the problem.
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Combine the opener and main menu into a single video that is the length of the song (or however long you want the song to last) using Premiere, After Effects, etc. Import into Encore and set as the motion background for your menu, then set the “Loop Point” to right after the opener. The button highlights will not appear until after the loop point, and when the menu finishes, it will not go back to the beginning of the opener, but at the start of the loop point.
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There is no quick and easy way to do it. Growing elements takes TIME to look good. Many hours of tweaking and tedious work for a couple seconds of animation. In fact, it took a good day or two just to animate all the growing elements from our Swan Lake DVD/Blu-ray motion menu template seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nr7ZVQ6iLI
Jon Geddes
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Well, without using any third party plugins or an expensive high speed camera, you can just change the speed of your footage to the desired slow-mo percentage, then right click on the layer, go to frame blending, and change it to “Pixel Motion”. It will take a long time to render, as it has to generate frames between frames.
You might want to be careful with this setting though, as sometimes it can guess motion incorrectly and you get some strange distortion, so just watch all the slow-mo footage back to make sure it’s ok.
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Dave is correct,
Trapcode Particular is an excellent particle system for After Effects (the best actually), however, you can achieve good results with the built-in “CC Particle World”.
Using a Null Object to control the source of the particles is the best way to do it. Unfortunately the x,y, and z position of the producer cannot be directly linked to the position of a null object unless you use expressions.
- First, create a null object and change it’s name to “Particle_Controller”, make sure it is 3D.
- Then create a new solid and apply the CC Particle World effect to it
Then apply the following expressions to the producer:
Position X:
x=thisComp.layer(“Particle_Controller”).transform.position[0]-thisComp.width/2;
x/thisComp.width;Position Y:
y=thisComp.layer(“Particle_Controller”).transform.position[1]-thisComp.height/2;
y/thisComp.width;Position Z:
z=thisComp.layer(“Particle_Controller”).transform.position[2];
z/thisComp.width;Then you will want to tweak some settings of the particle to make it look better:
- Set the radius of the producer to “0”
- Set the physics animation to “Viscouse”
- Set the Velocity to “0.08”
- Set Inherit Velocity to “5”
- Set Gravity to “0”
- Set Extra and Extra Angle to “0”
- Set Particle Type to “Star”
- Set Birth Size to “.067”
- Set Death Size to “.010”
- Set Max Opacity to “40%”
- Set Birth and Death Color to whatever you want (Birth being lighter)
- Set Transfer Mode to Add
- Add a Glow Effect to the Solid with an Intensity of “3” and “19” Radius
Now Animate the position of the Null Object to get the particles to swirl around. Some of the settings may need to be tweaked depending on the resolution you are using.
For an example of what it looks like, you can watch a sample of our “Pro Motion Menu Kit: 02 – Enchanted Waters” which uses these same settings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ClxxJF6kE
Jon Geddes
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It’s not that difficult to setup, and won’t hurt to try.
I recommend using the dynamic link method to all our customers of our Pro Motion Menu Kit products, as it avoids a bug with Encore where the menus end their transcode prematurely, resulting in a menu on the final dvd that only lasts a couple seconds that should last 50, with no indication from Encore that anything wrong happened.
I posted a list of many of the bugs we encountered with Encore and solutions on how to resolve each one:
https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/05/encore-tutorial/
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Do you have the latest Quicktime version on your PC? Also, you may need to install the Prores codec as well.
Jon Geddes
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I don’t believe Encore just demuxes the mpg files, but rather re-encodes them completely, causing double compression.
My Suggestions:
If you have After Effects, you can combine your audio and video in a composition, then import that composition into Encore using the dynamic link feature. This can then be used as your asset for the transition.If you do not have after effects, you can save your transition to quicktime or avi format so that the file contains both audio and video, and set that as the asset.
Jon Geddes
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