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Hi everyone!
I'm having major trouble with a project for a work. I'm producing a DVD using a previous employee's project files, so I'm having to reverse-engineer the project in order to aqdd to it and finalise it. 
The major issue is: Overlapping Buttons. I can see why there is an issue - the red boxes denoting the overlap are clearly visible. Trouble is - I can't resize the buttons so that they don't overlap. Whenever I click on the buttons, the text for the buttons either spontaneously resizes, disappeares or duplicates other text, seemingly at random. There does not seem to be a way to untangle the menu. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance, as I'm completely stuck and my deadline for completion is within a few hours. I've tried editing the menu in Photoshop but without any success. 
Nothing I seem to do in Photoshop or in Encore seems to make the project respond.
I've tried gaining a screenshot of the Menu monitor to illustrate the nightmare of red and green boxes, but for some reason, I can't bring up the red-boxes now.
I'm at a complete loss!
Any element in the button group can cause overlap. You should be able to fnd it in photoshop.
I will send you an email address by PM. Send me the psd for the menu,and I'll see if I can find the issue.
I don't believe this exists in the DVD spec, right? The only way I see to fast forward (other than jumping to chapters) is to use the DVD player remote.
Stan Jones, thank you!
You appear to have solved the overlap. I see none (in Encore), and don't see any likely issue in Photoshop.
The problem you have is that there are 22 buttons on a widescreen menu: limit by the DVD spec is 18. (36 for 4:3 menu). That will create problems as you move ahead. But easily handled by adding a menu.
I am using a Mac Pro, mid 2010 Processor 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Memory 16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC, Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB, Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Every time I try to build a DVD using more than one button I get this error
Internal software error:/Volumes/Builds/Amawat/Main/XcodeProjects/AuthorCore/../../Soni c/DVDCreator/FormatLib/Vobulator/BlockPlanner.cpp,line 217
Moving to the Encore forum.
Thanks,
Kevin
Okay I will CCLEANER and retry everything...
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Does your project use slideshows?
No.
Not a common error. All the instances in the past couple years that I found relate to slideshows.
No idea.
More info about your project; maybe something will give us some ideas.
I'm making a custom menu for my DVD in Photoshop, using the film/video preset (720x480 I believe). When I import the image to encore, everything looks good. Once I've burned the disc and put it in my DVD player the image looks stretched, as do the video buttons I used.
Any ideas as to what the problem could be?
720x480 is half the story... the other half is the PAR (pixel aspect ratio) which determines standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9
I do not make my own menus, so have NO idea how to get the PAR correct
Before trying to create a menu from scratch in Photoshop, it helps to learn by starting with one from the Encore library and modify it in Photoshop. Add a menu from the Encore library to an Encore project, then right click and pick "edit in Photoshop." When you realize how easy it is, there's no need to start from scratch. You can change everything you want to change before you can learn the small subtleties that created your problem.
In any event, as John says, PAR is the partner of the pixel size. But you have a choice to make: widescreen or standard? You don't say which you picked, so I assume you simply got it wrong. The Film & Video presets in Photoshop have a group of Pixel Aspect ratios at the bottom. The 720x480 you indicate is NTSC, so you pick between D1/DV (par .91) or widescreen (1.21).
It is possible you did it right, and Encore is interpreting it wrong, which you can fix, either way, by telling Encore which is correct. Since your menu looks stretched (rather than squished), you probably used widescreen when you wanted standard.
Try changing in Encore by looking at what Encore is seeing as the display ratio: 4:3 or 16:9. Select the menu in Encore (select the menu only,not a button), and look at the properties panel, basic tab. If is set as 4:3, change it to 16:9.
For anyone who's interested, I found a solution to this problem. Once imported into Encore, the leader in on the video and audio files cannot be trimmed at all. (I had been trimming the beginning of the video and matching audio file to eliminate the 8 seconds of dead space at the start of the clips.) Although the trim took effect immediately in the Encore timeline and I could also watch it in preview in sync, exporting was another story. The audio track seems to retain the trim when exporting but the video track does not, hence the 6-7 second delay between audio and video.
I reimported the files to my project and left in the 8 seconds of dead space at the start and voila! The video and audio match up when exported.
Ideally the trim tool would just work as its supposed to through export and all, but at least I found a solution I can work with.
(As a note, the trim works just fine in export on Encore CS5. I only had this problem with Encore CS6.)
I have tried Premiere Pro CC and CS6 with several different video's I upload on youtube.
1. video with external music downloaded 2 different songs. Render in Premiere stops working, then I make it through render but Encore just stands there. I go through the export media option. Tries external and internal in the game video.
2. make the same video without music goes fine, I add music in youtube.
3. new video with Fraps external screen capture, and my voice following the Fraps video. Renders fine in Premiere CC, encore CC crash. I open Premiere CS6 cannot open project because it's corrupted. Just encore cs6 cannot open either or cannot find the folder for the project.
Is there a way around this I can use to get my last video project up? I cannot upload this without my voice.
Sort of a "shotgun" approach, but the links below may help... LOTS of people have problems with editing screen capture
Free Open Source software http://camstudio.org/
-use with Lossless Lagarith http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875797
Some of these notes are for Premiere Elements, but may help with PPro
Fraps & Elements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/967201
-and Elements preset http://forums.adobe.com/thread/943772
-and more Elements http://forums.adobe.com/thread/871095
Camtasia http://forums.adobe.com/thread/836800
-and Lagarith Codec http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1287577
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775288
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/453044
-and http://forums.adobe.com/message/3202148
Techsmith codec http://forums.adobe.com/message/3692768
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1046914?tstart=0
BB Flashback http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1074014
XSplit recorder http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1160940
Elgato http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1163126 w/picture
Dxtory http://forums.adobe.com/message/5172056
Bandicam read #10 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/954394
I'm having the same problem here. Adobe please let us know my work depends on this ! Thanks...
