[Paul Benson]

It has been awhile since I tried importing a vob by renaming it to mpg. I usually saw what you are describing. I think it had something to do with the audio being muxed in the vob file. I typically used a vob to avi converter and that made things work properly.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Not sure about your copying of files instead of importing theory, but I will say that almost 3 hours of footage is tough for Encore to encode. I had a similar experience with about 100min trying to fit on a single layer DVD. Here is the link of my experience with a summary on the end.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/145/867879#867940
Also, make sure you use AC3 audio.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

I have encountered this, too. Especially if the clip is coming from Premiere. I had to create just an audio WAV file in Premiere and then delete the original audio in Encore and import the WAV file.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Then you have the healing brush, patch, and/or clone stamp tools. Not easy.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Understood. I would think the cage is distracting. Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. If you have CS5, then you treat the tiger as the background and let PS ‘fill in’ the background/tiger. Then you just delete the cage.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

I see. What you describe should work. I have done similar menus with transparent but active buttons without a problem. Glad there was a work around.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Sounds like your player is having some issues with a non-button menu. I don’t understand, though, why a first play timeline would not work for you. What does a menu with a non-active button do for you that a timeline would not?

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Always tricky. Try different techniques including healing brush, patch, and/or clone stamp.

I did see a cool new feature in CS5 and Richard Harrington did a tutorial on it:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop-cs5-extract.php

That looks like magic and may help you as well, if you have CS5.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

Hi Edgar,
I agree, nothing too fancy. The only ‘odd’ thing I see is that you start with a menu with no button. Is it a menu or a timeline? I would recommend you use a timeline as your first play in this case. Its end action would then be the menu you have with the button on it. I have never created a menu with no buttons.

Pauley

[Paul Benson]

No guarantees, but try some file recovery software (I like Recuva). Maybe PS did a write before delete file creation (most do).

Good luck,
Pauley