Encore CS5 keeps re-encoding my motion menu - help!

[Killer3737]

Trying to make my first BR in Encore and running into a problem, a similar one I had with DVD authoring a while back. No matter what I do Encore is re-encoding my motion menu. The source file is exported from Premiere Pro and is using the MPEG2 Blu Ray preset. When I load the asset into Encore it says 'don't encode' which suggests the file is BR legal.

I then import my PSD menu file which is JUST buttons. This is the problem I had with DVDs, me leaving pictures on the PSD so it needed to render them again. With this though my PSD is just buttons:



So i'm setting that as my first play menu and adding menu.m2v and menu.ac3 as my motion menu assets. I have one other static menu from photoshop and then all my assets.

When I go to build it I see Encore renders the menu and checking the output confirms it, the motion menu is re-encoded as 00012.m2ts and the still menu is 00010.m2ts.

So, what am I doing wrong? This is exactly how I now build motion menus for DVDs and they don't re-encode.

[Killer3737]

Figured it out after finding a video on youtube, I didn't realise you could import Premiere projects into Encore as an asset. That is basically the solution, rather then encoding the video inside Premiere pro and importing it into Encore as video and audio files just finish the project and save it as a .prproj file and import that into Encore. Choose it as the asset for your menu then you can adjust the transcode settings just like in Premiere and the encoding will be done inside Encore, just once, for the project.

Just thought I would post that for anyone that views this topic or finds it via google.