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Render the movie as an AVI file. Choose Embed Project Link from the output options in the Render Queue so
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that you can return to After Effects directly from Adobe Encore DVD to make adjustments if necessary.
Open the menu in Adobe Encore DVD, and choose File > Import As Asset. Select the video you created in After
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Effects, and click Open.
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In the Layers panel in Adobe Encore DVD, hide any layer that is visible in the composition by clicking the Eye
icon next to the layer. If you animated the button images, open their button sets and hide the visible layers.
Because the menu is in animation, the video clip takes the place of the actual menu in Adobe Encore DVD. However,
any button subpicture should remain in effect, which is why you hide visible layers, not button subpicture layers.
Note: If you edit the menu in Photoshop, do not hide the button layer sets, only the images within the button sets.
With the menu selected in the Project panel, click the Motion tab in the Properties panel, and drag the Video pick
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whip to the After Effects-produced video clip in the Project panel.
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Specify Loop Point and Loop # values. (See "About Loop Point" on page 108.)
For more information on using After Effects, see After Effects Help.
See also
"To animate video thumbnail buttons" on page 107
Creating button subpictures in Adobe Encore DVD
About button subpictures
A button subpicture defines the appearance of a button when it's selected, activated, or in its normal (unselected)
state. All the predesigned buttons included with Adobe Encore DVD come with button subpictures. Adobe Encore
DVD can create subpictures for a button and update the text in the button subpictures automatically anytime you
change the button's text. For full control over the design of button subpictures, you can create them in Photoshop.
(See "To create subpictures in Photoshop" on page 123.)
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Button subpictures
A. Normal state B. Selected state C. Activated
Regardless of how you create your button subpictures—using predesigned buttons from the Library panel, the Create
Subpicture command, or designing your own in Photoshop—you set the colors used for button subpictures in the
Color Set dialog box. (See "About color sets for menus" on page 125.)
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