Stan Jones
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Your highlight is not shifted, it is truncated. You will find a number of threads out there regarding this, but I could not find a couple of the most recent. The most likely cause is using a menu that is not precisely your project size or par.
So in photoshop, what is the pixel size and par of your menu?
Stan Jones
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Have not tested, but I am pretty sure some of those affected reported that the vbr 2 pass bug was fixed.
In some recent tests, some of the disparity between Encore reported size on disk was the difference between Encore using Gigabytes and bytes. A DVD does not hold 4.7, but 4.3 GB. I don’t know if that is your issue or not.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4838089#4838089
Stan Jones
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Menus can be edited in Encore, but it is so much easier in Photoshop that I never bother. You can bring images into Encore and add them to menus; you dn’t really have to add theimage to a button; it can just be on a lower layer and framed by the button.
Stan Jones
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Export the frame that you want to use from the video. Edit the menu in photoshop. Scale the image down and put in as the lowermost layer in the thumbnail group.
As long as you are not going to animate that button, that should do what you want.
Stan Jones
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I assume you are actually using a “video thumbnail button.” When you link it to a timeline, it will show the poster frame set for the chapter you link to. Usually the intent is to animate the button with video from the timeline you link to.
I think what you are saying, however, is that you are using the thumbnail button on the main menu, and linking to a menu. That won’t work.
You can use another “poster frame” image in any regular button by just putting a still image in that button, properly scaled, etc.
If you are really wanting video in the thumbnail, and you are not linking to the timeline it comes from, that’s a whole different problem – Encore won’t do that automatically. You have to use another program (e.g. After Effects) and add the video there.
Stan Jones
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Use a menu from the Encore library, then “edit in Photoshop” and change anything you want to change. Yes it will be 720×480.
PPI is irrelevant in video. Pixel dimensions and pixel aspect ratio are the relevant variables.
Stan Jones
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I suspect what you really want is back to CS2 or 3 where you could export a simple, template based option from Premiere without ever having to author the disk. Another way to go with the feature request.
Stan Jones
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You can save a project in Encore with your favorite settings, then use “save as” for each new project.
Open dynamic links from Encore rather than using “send” from Premiere.
But this only works for repetitive projects. Your examples, first play/end action, aren’t really settings. A new project has nothing in it. Encore already sets the first thing you add as first play. Add your menu first, it will be first play. (One of the reasons I’m suggesting you not use “send” from PR.) End actions can’t be set until the asset is added.
You could make a feature request for Encore to have a setting to automatically add a default end action to all timelines/slideshows/playlists created.
Stan Jones
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Alt-drag to an open part of the menu (for you, any part).
When you drag, Encore creates a button, a timeline from the asset, and links the timeline to the button.
Stan Jones
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For sales purposes, I still believe Encore is effectively part of Premiere Pro. Call Adobe or a reseller; it is hard to keep up with the details. The on line notice says, as part of the cloud, you can get Premiere for as low as $19.99 per month with a year contract; $29.99 for month-to-month. I believe this would still include Encore.
Encore is not available as part of the trial offers. You’d have to rely on the money back guarantee (also 30 days?).
Stan Jones