3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 5, 2014 6:53 PM by Stan Jones RSS

    Red frames in my Blu-ray Motion Menu

    eday_2010 Community Member

      It seems like every time I start a new project, Adobe has a new problem for me to work through.

       

      I am building a Blu-ray that has a motion menu that is the length of a song. I've done this before and had no problems. But for some reason this time Encore CS6 is doing something odd. On the finalized disc, about two seconds into the motion menu, what I had for the motion menu is replaced by solid red. It flickers a few times at first, and then stays solid red until about the 35 second mark, where it goes back to normal. The menu still works, and the buttons are all still visible and selectable.

       

      Part of the video was created in After Effects and exported as an .mp4 file. That was brought into Premiere Pro CS6 and placed in a timeline which had a single frame of the menu as an image until about the 37 second mark, which is when the animated video from AE would start. This timeline was exported as an H.264 Blu-ray m4v file with a 20-35mbps rate, which is what all the other videos are set to. The video itself plays fine if I bring it back into Premiere or watch it somewhere else, but as soon as Encore transcodes it for the menu, I get the red screen near the beginning. I have tried higher and lower bit rates, but no matter what, it always does it in the same spot for the same amount of time.

       

      Is this an Encore CS6 issue? Does Encore not like it when there is not much motion in a motion menu? I have done others where there is no motion for large parts of them and had no issues. Or a video driver issue, or a video file issue? Should I just use an mp4 for the motion menu video since it gets transcoded anyways? Or does Encore act up if a motion menu is too long?

        • 1. Re: Red frames in my Blu-ray Motion Menu
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          I don't know what causes this, but you'll find some other users who report the problem.

           

          One user worked around it by brining the video asset into Encore and transcoding there. I don't know why this avoided the problem; the delimma is not the transcoding so much as the re-rendering into the menu.

           

          I suspect you can avoid it by putting all non-highlight elements into the movie, so Encore does not render the video in the menu.

          • 2. Re: Red frames in my Blu-ray Motion Menu
            eday_2010 Community Member

            You are a life saver. I imported the video as an mp4 and not an already-compliant m4v, and Encore rendered everything perfectly.

            My list of what to do, what not to do, and tricks for getting this program to work properly is getting longer and longer. I can see why it's bundled with Premiere Pro and not a stand alone product that costs money. And I can see why they are not making new versions of it anymore. Sony Vegas Pro works far better apart from not being able to switch menu pages while keeping the background and music going.

            • 3. Re: Red frames in my Blu-ray Motion Menu
              Stan Jones CommunityMVP

              Excellent!