Encore: How to import custom background image?

[JohnAx]

Encore rejects my attempts to add an image to the background library with "unsupported file format". My file looks just like the included choices and afaik has the same properties. Anyone know what I'm missing?

[jtoolman2000]

That's because it only accepts Photoshop File Format .PSD
All graphics have to be .PSD I think.

[JohnAx]

Thanks, but I meet that requirement. Also, my image, like the included ones, is 720x480, and I even adopted their naming convention, i.e. NTSC...BG. Any other suggestions?

[thecoalman]

That's because it only accepts Photoshop File Format .PSD
All graphics have to be .PSD I think.

If that's true that's lame. Are you sure that's not just for custom menus with objects. I would be very suprised if a tool of that caliper disn't import just about any image format for a simple background.

jtoolman2000,

Are you using photoshop to create the image?

[JohnAx]

Yeah, image is created with Photoshop.

And yeah, Encore may have wonderful attributes, but don't get your expectations up too high for "optional" features like a mature UI and support for different file formats. It's very much Version One (it says 1.5, but I guess the .5 was very ad hoc fixes) from a shop that obviously had a budget and a schedule and a whip for those who dared say "but chief, we need..." Even a triviality like the expected "open previous project" function is limited to picking from the standard Windows recently-used-files list at the bottom of the Files dropdown. Not sure why they weren't in a position to reuse the code that does that with a little more class in Premiere. Corporations hoot about code reuse, and then set up development teams that seem more like clean room operations.

[jtoolman2000]

Ok I just created a blank menu ( BLACK ) I imported a JPG as an asset and just dragged it into the black menu and the image replaced the black BG in the menu. I think it has to be a PSD only if you want to import it directly as a menu. So yes, you can drop an image ( works with Jpgs so far ) over an existing menu and replace it.

I make menus in photoshop. Anything you want to be a button has to have the layer named with a (+) after its name on the layers pallet. That will apparently tell Encore to treat it as a button. Of course you can always convert anything to a button in Encore by selecting it, right clicking and choosing convert to button and visaversa, you can convert a button object to a normal graphic with the same right click command.