Jon Geddes
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Encore’s Pop-Up menu support is limited. It does not support any Java Programming or advanced techniques. It supports using a single still menu that overlays your video. This overlay does not support any kind of motion, nor can it link to another pop-up menu. A timeline can only have a single pop-up menu associated with it.
On your pop-up, you might have a link to some of the submenus or chapters. If you have a lot of chapters for your video, you might just want to have a button that links to the regular scene selection menu.
Also, your button highlights will make a “cut-out” from your overlay graphic. So lets say you have a nice lower third picture for the background of your overlay and some text on top of that for the buttons, and your button highlight is a little circle next to your button text. After your disc is built, when you activate the pop-up menu, all your buttons will have little circles next to them where you can see straight through to the underlying video. Any graphics you had underneath the highlight will have been cut out.
I’m hoping Adobe makes some improvements to the pop-up menu feature with it’s next release. Although, limited pop-up menu functionality is better than no pop-up functionality.
Jon Geddes
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You are correct. Do a Save As from Photoshop
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The original PSD is never modified. When you import the .psd into Encore as a menu, a copy of it is generated in the /sources/menus/ folder. Any changes you make to it once it has been imported into encore are made to the copy.
Jon Geddes
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Well he did say nothing happened when he prefixed the layer with (=1) or (=2). Federico’s method for trying to increase the selection area will work providing that he also turns the opacity of the (=2) highlight to zero in the ‘Edit Menu Color Set’ options.
Maybe nothing happened because he didn’t prefix the Layer Group with a (+). Not doing this would cause “nothing” to happen when he tries to create the button highlights in photoshop.
Jon Geddes
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Explosions and fire? You won’t find any plugins for after effects that will do that with any realistic results like FumeFX does for 3D Studio Max.
The best particle system for AE is probably Trapcode Particular. With lots of tweaking, multiple particle layers, blending modes, and curve adjustments, you can achieve decent looking explosions / flames that might look good for a lot of motion graphics. But it can’t be compared to the realistic results of a particle system from a true 3D application.
Particular allows for custom particles (such as a picture), and you can create a comp with lots of different pictures, and have particular generate the particles from all of them.
You might also want to look at Trapcode Form, as it allows you to do some neat things that particular cannot, such as sound or displacement maps effecting the particles.
Jon Geddes
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I don’t believe an intermediate image file is created when building straight to disc in encore.
Are you using any special codecs for your video or audio? Thats all I can think of that might be causing the unstable transcoding. It could also be some application that installs drivers that is conflicting with encore such as ffmpeg. Programs like that install mpeg drivers that override the default and may not work well with encore.
And yes, Adobe Media Encoder with generate a dvd compliant m2v (mpeg2) file that encore will not have to transcode.
Jon Geddes
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After Effects is not intended to be a 3D application, it is a compositing application, and if you are familiar with the differences between the two, you will understand why they are kept separate.
In my opinion, Adobe really needs a full 3D app as part of it’s collection. However, unless they purchase Cinema4D from Maxon, I don’t really see them including one with any quality. They certainly wouldn’t be able to buy out Maya or 3D Studio Max. Chances are Maxon won’t be accepting any offers for Cinema 4D either.
If you want true 3D rendering capabilities, you should be using a 3D application anyways. After Effects has included some basic 3D capabilities so you don’t have to jump over to a 3D app for certain things.
I’m quite pleased with the 3D work I’ve been able to achieve entirely in After Effects. All my motion menu template kits use a great deal of 3D motion, as do my promo videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaA_ITFSQ0
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
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Actually for a 12 minute video, your file should be around 800 mb if its using the highest bitrate possible.
Have you tried transcoding outside of encore? Try just using the adobe media encoder and set everything manually for dvd mpeg2 output.
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First of all, the quality of dvd’s can only be so high, as they must meet the requirements of the dvd specifications. If your video exceeds 7.5 mbps, you might have issues with playback on certain players (since the dvd player can only read so much information at a given time).
I would keep the bitrate at 7 mbps, and you could do VBR 2 pass with a max bitrate of 8, minimum of 1.5 and target of 7.
Also, if your source video is HD, you won’t want to use the Encore encoder to transcode it, as it has a horrible downscaling algorithm. Instead, you could use a program like Virtual Dub (if you are on a PC) to downscale it, then use encore to transcode the SD video.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com