The following video shows my edited background movie. It’s important to think about where your loop point is going to be so that the menu will loop smoothly. The first step for me was shooting and editing the background movie, although for most people this will be a computer-generated graphic rather than something shot with a camera. So, now you appreciate all of the above you can get started on your menu. Stop/Eject’s main menu with all the button highlights visible They could not be red-and-white striped rings, like life preservers they can only be one solid colour. The button highlights are the white rings. So look at the Stop/Eject main menu below.
I prefer to build my buttons into the background movie in my editing software (Final Cut) rather than add them in Encore, and that’s the approach I’ll outline here.Īnother crucial point to understand is that each button highlight can only be one colour. All the disc player can deal with is a background movie and the highlights. Yes, you can import your background movie as a Quicktime into Encore and then add buttons to it within Encore, but when you come to build your disc the software will render those buttons into the background movie. but what about the buttons themselves? These have to be part of the background. Hang on – background, button hightlights…. The user will only ever see one of these at a time.
If, like me, you want to do it all from scratch rather than using any of the built-in templates, the process isn’t particularly intuitive, and was sufficiently different from DVD Studio Pro (the software I’m used to) to leave me scratching my head from time to time, but here’s how I did it in the end. Integrating After Effects® to Create Motion MenusĤ.Today I thought I’d share the process I figured out for creating looping menus in Encore for DVD and Blu-ray. Building the Main Menu & Setting Navigationħ. Assigning Color Sets to Button HighlightsĦ. Creating a Button from Scratch in Photoshop®ĥ. Check for Errors & Set Main Menu NavigationĤ. Properties, Character & Timeline Panelsħ. Project, Menu, Monitor & Flowchart PanelsĢ.
When he isn’t working on a production, you can find Jason in the studio presenting and teaching, or logged onto one of his multi player PC games, another one of his other passions.ġ: Touring The Interface & Its Capabilitiesġ. He currently produces events, music videos and promotional videos for Stand-up comedians. After studying Communication, Broadcast and Film, he began freelancing on small productions in New York City, building up his arsenal of production equipment, before eventually going it on his own. Jason Barbosa is an editor and director who honed his production skills at William Paterson University.
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