Jon Geddes
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Not sure about that one. You can try building the project before it’s complete. Just make sure none of the navigation is completely broken, leaving you stuck on a menu and having no way to get out of it.
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I have also encountered glitches from h264 encoded files on the Mac. It seemed to magically resolve itself though. Not sure if it was a software upgrade, reload of the operating system, or what… but it seems to have gone away. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
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Encore, like almost all other authoring applications, has a limit of 99 Chapters, 99 Timelines, etc. If you were using Scenarist you could circumvent this dvd spec limitation by splitting the menus/timelines over multiple VTS’s on the disc. Also, all your menu content cannot exceed 1GB.
Jon Geddes
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An ISO file will not contain the copy protection info. It’s possible your replication facility can add it in using your image, but you will have to find that out.
Jon Geddes
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You might want to reconsider Encore as I recommend it for our Motion Menu template products. I have experience using most of the prosumer programs, and for what you will be using it for, Encore will work well.
I will admit it does have plenty of bugs, but I have found there is a solution to getting around just about all of them. I have designed a workflow to use with our Pro Motion Menu Kits that gets around these bugs, and provide a complete walkthrough video tutorial of authoring a Blu-ray / DVD from start to finish. This tutorial is available to everyone for free from the tutorial section of our website.
I have posted a blog that goes over all the bugs we encountered and solutions for each and every one:
https://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/05/encore-tutorial/
Jon Geddes
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You should look at the Pro Motion Menu Kits from https://www.precomposed.com/
We offer the best 3D Motion Menu templates available. It includes a Sound FX track to match the visuals, Cover an Label templates, button templates for your authoring program, and complete walkthrough video tutorials explaining how to customize them from start to finish. Compatible with Encore and DVD Studio Pro (some of our customers use DVD Architect as well).
Product tutorials are available to everyone, so you can see how easy they are to customize before you buy.
Enjoy!
Jon Geddes
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If the loop count is set to forever, it will never execute the end action. If you set it to none, then it will execute the end action after the first time it runs through the menu.
Sometimes if you build the image/disc without setting an end action for menu, then go back into the project and try to set the end action, it will preview with the updated settings, but the new burned disc will not have the updated settings. You may have to delete the menu from your project, re-import it, link everything back up, and try again.
Jon Geddes
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Here is another example of this effect on someone’s Demo Reel:
Jon Geddes
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This technique is commonly achieved by rotoscoping and tracking.
You take a frame of the video, mask the person out, then place the person back over the video starting on that exact frame. You can then use the tracking tool to keep their body on the same spot of the scene (try and track it to a point on the same plane and close to where they were). So then the video continues, but the freeze frame of the person stays where they were. Works well with shaky footage also.
So you can just repeat this process for a bunch of frames to achieve the effect you are looking for.
Jon Geddes
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For the morph, you can use the Reshape Effect. So if you break the horse up into layers, placing the anchor point at the joints, and animating it, you can then use the reshape effect on each layer, transforming the horse’s back leg into the person’s leg, the horse’s front leg into the person’s arm, the horse’s body into the person’s body, etc….
As for the bicycle, you can have it on a layer of it’s own, and have it scale up from 0 to 100 out of the chest of the horse during the morph.
It will take many many hours of tweaking to make it look good, probably at least twice as long as you think it will take.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com