Jon Geddes
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Copy Protection is not possible with burned dvd’s, only pressed discs. You might have been checking the little box for it in Encore, but it had no effect on the burned disc.
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What is your budget and how many copies do you plan on making?
I only ask because this will make a difference on which company to use.
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Yes it is possible. Make sure you don’t have auto-activate turned on for the button. It could also just be a preview bug. Have you tried building an image and testing with a software dvd player or burn a test disc?
Also make sure your highlights are located in the proper layer group for the button that it is highlighting. The layer group should be prefixed with a (+)
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You need to set the “Poster Frame” for the chapters. Remove any unwanted chapter markers, and set the poster frame of your actual chapter (by selecting the chapter, and going into the properties panel) to any point in the video. It literally can be anywhere, doesn’t even have to be close to the actual chapter.
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You need to set the Loop Point of the menu to right when the button text appears.
Jon Geddes
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You might be interested in reading an article I wrote a little while back on this subject:
https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/05/successful-burning/
Jon Geddes
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Adobe Encore can do all of this using the Chapter Index feature. We design advanced motion menu templates for use in Encore or DVD Studio Pro, but we recommend using Encore not only for it’s far superior integration with Photoshop, but because of features such as this.
In order to use this feature, the buttons must be named with a special prefix, which I believe all the templates that come with the software do. The templates that come with our products also support this feature. If all your chapters are named, which can be done in premiere or directly in Encore, then when you create the chapter index, it will change the text of each button to that of the chapter name. If your chapters do not have any name, it will just number them sequentially (such as “Chapter 1”).
So basically what you do is create a single scene selection menu, drag the first chapter from the timeline onto the first button, then go into the menu bar and tell it to create a chapter index. Based on how many buttons are on the screen and how many chapters are in your timeline, it will know how many additional menus to create, and will properly link up the next and previous buttons to navigate between them. It’s really one of the best features they’ve added to the program in a long time.
If you’d like to watch a video tutorial that explains how to use this feature, in addition to a little tip to avoid a bug with it as well, then you are welcome to visit our website and watch the Encore tutorial for any of our products. You can access it from the tutorial section of our website. All our tutorials are freely available to anyone.
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Have you tried not frameserving into encore? Just render out an uncompressed avi and see if that works.
Jon Geddes
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Well, if the background has a much brighter luminance, you could duplicate the footage, desaturate and apply a levels adjustment to create the matte, precompose, and apply a lens blur to your original footage, using the precomp as the Depth Map Layer.
Jon Geddes
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[ross byron] “p.s will your method do the 23.98 to 29.97 frames?”
Not quite sure what you mean by that. Just about every mpeg2 encoder has the option of enabling the progressive flag.
Jon Geddes
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