2 Replies Latest reply: Aug 10, 2009 7:47 PM by Bill Hunt RSS

    Motion on A menu

    terry lee martin Community Member

      I've spent many many hours learning how to create menus in Photoshop and I am now attempting to incorporate my menu into my DVD using Encore CS4. I've learned about navigation, but there must be something I am missing. I have placed an area on my menu that I am attempting to animate. In this area, It does show a still frame from my video, but I'm unable to get Encore to show me moving video in this frame. I have spent many hours and it seems like I've tried everything, but obviously I have missed the one thing that will work. I did attempt to link my menu to my video sequences, by going into the menu motion section. When I linked the video in the properties - menu - motion section to the video sequences, all it did was to blackened the entire menu image except for this small frame that holds the still image from my video, and it still doesn't show moving video.  Any help out there?

        • 1. Re: Motion on A menu
          terry lee martin Community Member

          Hello guys,   I figured it out. It was too simple for me to see at first. I saw how the transitions were simply there and viewable the moment I placed them on the timeline, and I assumed that the motion menus would be the same. I simply pressed the preview button and nothing happened. I didn't realize that I had to Render the moition menu before it would do anything. As I said, too simple to see something in front of my face.

          • 2. Re: Motion on A menu
            Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

            Terry,

             

            Glad that you got Motion Menus and Render Motion Menus figured out.

             

            I have one suggestion, that will cover almost everything that you will want to do in Encore - Jeff Bellune's book, Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, by Focal Press. Do not be fooled by the title. Yes, it was written for Encore 2.0, but 98% of that book will still apply in CS4. All that will be missing is some references to Adobe Dynamic Link between PrPro and Encore. That tiny difference will be covered in the F1, Help files. You might even be able to get a major discount, as Encore is now CS4. That book will tell you everything that you will want to know.

             

            Good luck,

             

            Hunt