motion backround lost motion

[hpharley90]

I brought a 48 minute Christmas project into Encore CS3.
I started out by making a main menu and scene menu.
I used a Blank Menu HD from the General catagory found in the Encore library for both Main and Scene menus.
I named them in the properties panel accordingly.
I brought in as assets backrounds tvhd0114.mov and tvhd0109 that I got from here at muvipix.com.

Altered some buttons and then placed them.
I burned a disc and everything worked very good but I noticed I wanted to fix a couple of buttons.

So I opened the project and did what I had to do and when I went to preview I lost all motion in the backrounds.
I deleted backround video from menu properties panel then cleared from project panel then saved.
Closed Encore.
Reopened Encore project then brought in video backround again from Bridge.
I have video as backround again but I cannot get motion from them. Just the audio.

[Gooder]

Hi Richard,

Did you also select "Render Motion Menus" after any changes you made to them!

Hope it helps!
Lee

[jackfalbey]

I had the same problem on a recent project, Richard. Lee's advice to render the preview is the correct answer. Click "File->Render->Motion Menus" and your preview should work. Alternatively, you can render from the "Preview" window as well; there's a button at the bottom left that looks like 2 fuzzy circles with an arrow coming off the right... if it turns red when the cursor is over it, you need to click it to render.

[hpharley90]

You both hit the nail right on the head.
Thanks a bunch.
I didn't know about that. But I'm sure glad I do now.

I would never had figured that out on my own. Thanks for this forum.