Motion Menu in Adobe Encore??

[SilverMedion]

Does any one know how to make a motion menu in Adobe Encore DVD?
When I try to drag my timeline over to the menu, it just make a thumbnail. In photoshop I named the layer I wanted the movie to be in, this "(%) video", but it didn't work. I can get the audio on the menu by draging the audio timeline over to the menu.

Any one know how I do it??

[rallynavvie]

Whatever video clip you're using for the motion menu background should not be in a timeline. Timelines are only for your main feature streams. Just import the video for the menu like any other asset, then open the menu. In the menu's control panel (where you set things like duration and loop and all that) there should be both an audio and video box. You can either use the pick whip next to it to select your video file from your asset box (click and drag on the little round icon next to the drop-down box to the video file in your asset bin) or I think one of the options in the drop-down is to select which file to use for video. However I believe this video file must take up the whole background. I think that Photoshop layer is for motion thumbnails, but I haven't tried it so I may be wrong. I always design motion menus in After Effects first.

What you're getting when you drag a timeline position to the menu is a motion thumbnail flag. You can actually drag chapter points directly onto the menu to make a motion thumbnail menu from within Encore. You just need to set the loop duration so that Encore knows how much of the start of each chapter to play. This is a pretty neat feature if you want to make quick motion scene menus.