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A Loop Point is often used when a menu has been animated in Adobe After Effects. For example, you can create a
video in After Effects in which the button images fly in from different points and settle into position after 15 seconds.
In this case, the background video, not the menu, includes the button images. Except for those first 15 seconds, the
button images would remain static for the remainder of the video (other elements could continue to move). The
actual menu that uses this animation as its background could be quite simple. It would need just a placeholder
background layer (to be replaced by the video) and button layer sets that contain only the button subpicture layers
used for the selected and activated button states. (See "Using After Effects to create Adobe Encore DVD menus" on
page 118.)
For the first 15 seconds that the menu is displayed, the buttons perform their animation. If you set the Loop Point to
15 seconds, you then disable the buttons during the animation. Only when the menu reaches the Loop Point do the
buttons become active. If set to loop, it loops back to the loop point, not the beginning of the animation.
To set the display time and looping of a motion menu
The Properties panel contains several options that control the display time and looping of a menu. The options you
choose depend upon whether you created a still or motion menu, or in other words, whether or not video, audio, or
thumbnail buttons play while the menu displays.
In the Project panel, select the desired motion menu.
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In the Properties panel, click the Motion tab, and then do one or more of the following:
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To set the menu display time to a fixed amount, enter a value for Duration.
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To have the menu loop a set number of times, select or type a value for Loop #.
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To have a menu loop until the viewer activates a button, select Forever from the Loop # menu.
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To disable the menu buttons for a set amount of time, type a timecode value for Loop Point.
If you set the menu to display for a set amount of time or to loop a limited number of times, click the Basic tab
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and specify a destination for End Action so that it has a destination once it times out.
Menu templates
About menu templates
The Library panel can include either standard menus or menu templates. A menu is a Photoshop (PSD) file that
includes a background and buttons. A menu template is an EM file that includes a Photoshop file and additional
information, such as the menu name and description, duration and loop settings, and references to background
audio and video clips.
You can add menus and menu templates to the Library panel for easy reuse.
To create menu templates
Custom menu templates provide an easy way to create menus that you can use over and over again in your DVD
projects. Menu templates are particularly useful for creating motion menus because any assets, such as video and
audio files, used to create the menu are saved as references within the menu template file. When you open a menu
template in Adobe Encore DVD, any referenced assets are also loaded into your project. Regular menus have a .psd
file-name extension, while menu templates have a .em file-name extension.
Open an existing menu, or use Photoshop to create a menu, and then import the Photoshop file as a menu.
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