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3. Hide the animated layers in the original menu.
Using the Layers panel in Adobe Encore DVD, hide all the layers that you animated so that they do not appear over
the background video.
4. Import the AVI and link it as a video background to the menu.
Import the video background you created as an asset into your Adobe Encore DVD project. Then, using the
Properties panel, link the video to the menu so that it replaces the menu background.
5. Set the menu Loop Point.
In Adobe Encore DVD, use the menu property Loop Point to designate at what point in the display of the menu the
buttons appear. Buttons cannot be selected or activated on the DVD until the Loop Point frame is reached. Once the
menu starts looping, the buttons are enabled. The loop begins at the loop point and ends at the end of the movie file.
The initial animation plays only when the menu first starts. (See "About Loop Point" on page 108.)
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Animating menus using Create After Effects Composition command
A. Create complete version of menu. B. In After Effects, animate menu. C. In Adobe Encore DVD, hide layers so that they don't appear over
background video (only button subpictures should remain visible). D. Link menu in Adobe Encore DVD with animated background from After
Effects.
Adobe Encore DVD lets you import and work with menus that aren't standard sizes. For example, you can import a
720 x 534 menu (created using square pixels) into an NTSC project (frame size: 720 x 480 pixels). However, if you
create a composition from a menu of these dimensions, you need to scale the layers in After Effects. To ensure that
the menu in the project aligns precisely with the pixels in the background animation, it is best to resize nonstandard
menus in Photoshop before you create the composition. Resize an NTSC menu to 720 x 480 pixels and a PAL menu
to 720 x 576 pixels. (In Photoshop, you can also specify the pixel aspect ratio for the menu: For an NTSC menu,
choose 0.9 for fullscreen or 1.22 for widescreen; for a PAL menu, choose 1.066 for fullscreen and 1.42 for
widescreen.)
To create an After Effects composition from a menu
In Adobe Encore DVD, select the menu that you want to animate in the Project panel.
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Choose Menu > Create After Effects Composition.
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The menu saves as a PSD file and opens as a project in After Effects. The layer sets and buttons convert to nested
compositions.
3 In After Effects, animate the menu elements as desired. Set keyframes for position, scale, rotation, or any other
effects at the times when you want the animation to start and stop. For example, you may want each of three buttons
to rotate for five seconds at staggered intervals. Don't make the button subpicture layers visible in the composition
because they must remain part of the menu in Adobe Encore DVD. Convert text layers to editable text if desired.
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