I'm just starting to learn Encore and have gotten stuck on the menu. I made a little animated background in After Effects to use as a menu background and brought it into Encore.
1- I want the animated background to play and then just stay on the last frame forever. The background movie is 6 seconds long and if I loop the last second it works perfectly. The problem is when I then add in my audio that's around a minute long, then the audio just cuts out when the looping starts. I was thinking I could make the movie a minute long but that would make a large unnecessary file. Or I could play the background movie before the menu and then have a still of the last frame as the menu and then it would stay for the length of the audio but I'm not sure if that would work. Might just dump the audio but want to check first to see if there's a way to make it work.
2- I was planning to make the text for the menu in Encore but when I put in some text and preview, the animation doesn't play and then I also realized that since I don't want the text to appear until the very end maybe I should do that in after effects. But I want the test to be clickable - if I do that in after effects it'll just be part of the movie.