Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to make a motion menu in encore and have spent the last few days watching every demonstration video I can find. I feel that I know enough now to make a menu in photoshop, import it into encore and the add video/audio and get the buttons working. However I want to make this as close to an official Hollywood style menu as possible.
I've attached two screenshots from the Sopranos blu ray. The video background plays on a loop and the front menu has three options (episodes, languages and features). When you click any of these the background video continues to play and a new menu pops up with further options. Then you can move down to the bottom, the pop up menu disappears and you can click another, a different pop up menu appears etc - all the time the video continues without being disrupted.
The tutorials I've watched with motion menus usually only have wo pages, menus and chapters, and when changing between one and the other the video restarts itself. Can adobe do the sam style of menu that the sopranos use where there is literally only one page and everything can be accessed via pop ups? If so can anyone point me in the direction of a guide? Would I need to create say four different versions of the menu in photoshop i.e. menu with nothing selected, menu with option 1 selected and so on?
If encore is not capable of doing this does anyone know a program that can? I've been watching lots of different blu rays recently to see how the menus are structured and the vast majority adopt this everything pops up over the one motion menu structure, as opposed to the DVD structure of every selection moving to a new page.
I hope this make sense and thanks in advance.
Kind Regards
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Yes and maybe....
A Multipage menu keeps the audio throughout (and is only an option for a Bluray rather than a DVD).
But it may not work as you would like because Hollywood uses a different system than Encore is capable of, and some effects or options you imagine may not be possible. Also there was a bug in Encore that can create a glitch on menu loop.
They've messed the Encore help files up, and my link goes to the pdf version of CS5! I'll see if I can find the link.
Only page 0 has a background, and it is the background for all the menus in that multipage.
It can be odd to access the pages/buttons not in page 0. You can do this through the menu panel (the appearance in the menu viewer does not change) or the layers panel (the appearance in the menu viewer does change). Or you can move between pages in the menu viewer using the Show Next Page/Show Previous Page buttons.
The Encore preview does not extend beyond page 0. Pretty worthless.
So, burn a rewritable disk to test, or build to a BD folder or image and playback with a high quality software player. I like PowerDVD since Total Media Theater is no longer available.
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