[Simon Bonner]

This is a good tut’ for basic 3D titles, camera animation etc – https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=32

Try some of the others at Videocopilot.net too.

[Simon Bonner]

You should check out Andrew Kramer’s video tutorials at videocopilot.net. The basic training section has some good stuff on how to get started with titles (https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/) while the main tutorial page (https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html) has some other stuff you might find interesting – particularly tuts 8, 17, 23, 23, 27, 33-35, 48-4 and 54.

[Simon Bonner]

Thanks, Jeff

So simple! I’d ignored that property because I didn’t want the menu to loop and didn’t think it would be useful.

Best,
S

[Simon Bonner]

If you’re using Encore, you can make up your menus and buttons in AE. Then you can set the button layers so they’re recognised as such in Encore – layer, adobe encore dvd, create button. And also set your subpictures (the highlighting that occurs when you select a button on a dvd) – layer, adobe encore dvd, set as subpicture 1 (first nest the subpicture[s] inside a comp you make for your button). You can then go to the frame of your menu animation (or the first frame if it’s a still menu) and save it as a photoshop file to import into Encore – composition, save frame as, photoshop layers. You can import the PSD into Encore as a menu, so Encore knows what type of asset (general name for file imported into Encore) it is. So, as you’d expect from 2 progs made by the came company, they work quite well together.

[Simon Bonner]

Which I greatly appreciate (you can never have enough extra info)! Thanks again!

s

[Simon Bonner]

Then that’s what I think I will do. Have rendered out some of the clips today as animations and they look good. Seeing as that seems to be a standard way of doing it, I feel more confident I’m not making it up as I go along. Thanks.

[Simon Bonner]

Someone might have already solved this for you, but I think I remember seeing something that would help in one of Maltaannon’s video tutorials. If you haven’t already found a way to do it, you might want to watch the tut – https://maltaannon.com/after-effects/slow-motion/

[Simon Bonner]

Thanks for the advice, it really helps. I had noticed that photo jpeg was smaller than animation and, given that, I was going to go for the latter (after what Aharon said in a podcast a while back about using as little compression as possible before the final render). I wasn’t familiar with the terms “intermediate and delivery” codecs but now it makes sense. Thanks for the help with this rather basic question.

Simon