Animated buttons in Encore 1.5

[PaulJBis]

Hi all:

I'm having some problems trying to make animated buttons in Adobe Encore 1.5, and I'm wondering if I am missing something or it's just that Encore doesn't support what I'm trying to do. Basically, I want to link my buttons to a playlist instead of a timeline, since I want every video in my DVD to have 1-2 sec. of black screen/silence before they start playing (and the videos are already rendered and transcoded to MPEG2, so I can't add them in the editing application). The problem is that, if I link the button to a playlist, Encore picks as the video tumbnail a frame of the first video (which happens to be the "black screen"), and I can't make it use a poster frame from the video that comes afterwards. Is there any way to do this in Encore, or it's just impossible?

[Msc_Alex]

Nothing is impossible it just takes time.

What you could do is make the dvd with the menu "looks" that you want.
Then make the dvd with the commands/playlists, this will have the wrong menu. Take the first dvd with the good menu en demux this menus m2v with vobedit (check on some basics here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=555936#post555936) step 2). Then take the menu from the good playlist dvd en mix the m2v over the bad one ( here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=555936#post555936) step 2 and 5-8)
Have fun

[PaulJBis]

Well, if I was going to go that route, I might as well compose the whole menu (background + thumbnail video) in a video editing program, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it inside Encore itself...

[Doogs]

If you go here http://www.sitesled.com/members/doogs/downloads.htm and download and view Tutorial #8 from the "Basic" section of my website, it will show you how to set the poster frame.

Hope this helps :)

[PaulJBis]

Thanks, but that didn't help my case, since as I mentioned above, I was trying to set the poster frame in a button linked to a *playlist*, not just to a timeline. Setting the poster frame in a timeline is easy; I wouldn't post here for something like that... :-)