Bring the Layers panel forward in its frame.ġ7. For example, if the buttons animate for 5 seconds, choose a loop point of 6 or 7 seconds.ġ6. Set the Loop point to a time where all of the menu elements are static, but also close to the time that they stop animating. Verify that the Duration is the same length as your AE comp.ġ4. Select the Motion tab in the Properties panel. Click with the Selection tool in the Menu viewer to load the whole menu into the Properties panel.ġ3. Make sure the Properties panel is forward in one of Encore’s frames. Alt+Drag the AE comp to the Menu viewer to make it the new background of the menu.ġ2. Make sure the Encore version of the AE animated menu is loaded in the Encore Menu viewer.ġ1.
The AE comp is now an asset in the Encore Project panel.ġ0. In the right pane, choose the comp that contains your animated menu. In the dialog box that opens, navigate in the left pane to where you saved the AE project and select it.Ĩ. Return to Encore (it should still be open) and do File>Adobe Dynamic Link>Import After Effects Composition.ħ. Save the AE project in a location that is easy to get to.Ħ. AE will open and load the menu from Encore as a comp.ĥ. psd file in a location that is convenient for you.ģ. Go to File>Create After Effects Compostion. If you want to force them to see the animation each time the menu is selected, then you don’t have to make a copy.Ģ. If you want to go back to this menu later in the program or from other parts of the menu system, you can make a static copy of the menu so the viewer won’t have to watch the intro again. When the menu duration expires, it will loop back to the loop point as seamlessly as the audience’s DVD player will let it, giving the illusion of a static menu that stays on-screen forever. What will happen is that when the menu first appears on-screen, the animated bit will play, then at the loop point the subpicture highlights will become active and the audience can make their selection. When you add your animated/static AE clip to the Encore menu as a background, set the loop point for the menu a few seconds after the elements stop animating. Give yourself at least a minute with everything static before ending the comp.
When it’s time for the menu to become “static”, make sure all animating elements in your AE comp stop moving and are at rest in their final positions.
Create your animation in AE, using whatever menu elements you want. If it’s the latter, you don’t need separate menus. Are you trying to create a menu with an animated background from which the audience can make a selection, or are you trying to make an animated menu that transitions to a static menu? Viewers would then make their selection from the static menu.
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