4 Replies Latest reply: Jun 8, 2012 12:13 PM by jesskaat RSS

    Titles at the beginning of chapters?

    jesskaat Community Member

      I'm working on a DVD of a concert performance. The performance is continuous and I'm marking chapters at the beginning of each song. The client has asked if a title can fade up and down when a chapter is selected, to appear before the song. The client doesn't want these titles to appear in the actual performance timeline.

      Is Encore able to do something like that?

      Thanks for your help.

      Jessica

        • 1. Re: Titles at the beginning of chapters?
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          I don't think the DVD spec will allow you to do this easily. 

          if a title can fade up and down when a chapter is selected, to appear before the song. The client doesn't want these titles to appear in the actual performance timeline.

          So ONLY when a chapter selection button is used would the chapter name appear. You could approximate this by having a transition video with the name play before going to the chapter.

           

          Or by creating duplicates of every chapter with the fade up/down and using those for chapters (not practical in what I assume is a long piece already.)

          • 2. Re: Titles at the beginning of chapters?
            jesskaat Community Member

            I had a feeling this couldn't be acheived too easily. I'll look into transitional video.

            Thanks.

            J

            • 3. Re: Titles at the beginning of chapters?
              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

              The Button Transition, that Stanley mentions, is not that difficult to do.

               

              I'd just either setup a new Project in PrPro, or create new Sequences in your existing Project, and do the Title Fade UP/DOWN for each Button Transition Video. Keep the names short, with no spaces, or special characters, but named so that you know what each is, say "Button_01, Button_02," etc.

               

              Export each of those Sequences as either a DV-AVI, or MPEG-2 DV file, and do NOT create a Timeline for them in Encore (Import as Asset). Just pickwhip to each Button Transiton file, in the Project Panel.

               

              This is very effective, and should do exactly what your client wants.

               

              Good luck,

               

              Hunt

              • 4. Re: Titles at the beginning of chapters?
                jesskaat Community Member

                Thanks Bill,

                I did it. It was remarkably easy. I wish there was a way to fade in the chapter. It comes in cold after the .avi fades out (I made the titles in AE - they are titles of songs in a concert.) Other than that. It worked quite well and the client is happy!

                Jess