Creating Motion Menus with Encore & After Effects CS4/CS5 - Part 3

Part 3 of "Creating Motion Menus with Encore CS4/CS5 and After Effects CS4/CS5" picks up where we left off in Part 2. This tutorial shows how to make a "Scene Menu" based on the 'Main Menu" combining techniques used in Part's 1 & 2. This is an advanced look at using Photoshop and After Effects create animated button transitions and some Advanced Menu Button navigation techniques in Encore. The techniques shown in this tutorial are used in both CS4 and CS5. Hosted by Melbourne Australia based Adobe Ambassador Jon Barrie.

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[candirainproductions]

I've seen menus where the animation or motion is continuous with the buttons on it...how can I do that?

[aJBprods]

@candirainproductions You wand to use the motion tab to link to a video clip in the project panel. :)

[aJBprods]

Hi All, Part 4 is on it's way soon with the many ways to link chapters to buttons and how to add a BG video loop to a Menu. I did Part 3 late at night. Sorry it was so long. I have watched it back and notice how many times I say main menu when I mean a button or scene menu. Ah well. :) I think you'll get the gist of it. - Cheers JB

[jfm100777]

Hello, my name is Julian

I am in Brazil

I'm starting to work with After Effects into Encore DVD

what is the configuration of the computer that you are using.

He's very fast!



[candirainproductions]

@aJBprods thanks!

[candirainproductions]

@NickRiviera10 yes when I do the edit in photoshop a picture viewer shows up it makes me so mad :/

[NickRiviera10]

Why when I try to edit in Photoshop instead of that, the windows video player appears, any idea?

[brent2045]

much appreciated, working on upgrading my menu work, thanks.

b.f. canada

[jm5659]

how do you add music to the main menu?? and when do you think you will have part 4 out by?

thanks!

[Emieliboy]

I've got 13 MPEG files with a total size of 20,5 GB (each around 1,9 GB) and imported them in Encore, put them in 13 timelines en build a pop-up menu. It's ready to burn on Blu-ray, but unfortunatly the whole thing is 50 GB. The timelines are now around 4,5 GB, why are they so big?! Eacht timeline has around 40 chapeters, but that doesn't take so much space, does it?!

Can someone help me with this?! I would really appreciate it. Sorry for my bad English btw.

[sbea21r]

Awesome tutorial bro! Keep um coming!