Hello,
Short Description of my situation: our company currently produces an image-video for a big energy-provider. the client asked me, if he could have one plain version of the video and one with the title of the film in the lower right corner and the companys logo in the upper left corner.
Now i thought with BluRay and PopUp menus and all there has to be a way, that the client can toggle the logo and the title on and off, while the video is playing… I had three ideas how to approach this:
- Treat the logo as a subtitle file
I learned, that it is possible to import a simple graphic as a subtitle script, i tried this for hours yesterday and actually succeeded, but the image quality was so unbearably bad, that i had to discard that approach.
Afterwards i read in two different forums that it is simply not possible to achieve a better result at the time, but if anyone has an idea, how that could work good for me i would be very grateful. the logo is only one color, but it would have to be sharp.
- Import four different videos: a plain one , one with the logo, one with the title and one with both. this could work, because the video is only about ten minutes long. The problem is, that i don't want the video to start from the beginning, every time the client wants to add the logo for instance, but keep on playing seamlessly( or NEARLY seamlessly) Do you know, if that is possible in Encore CS6??
- Somehow treat the logo and the title as a PopUP menu. I could imagine that to work for me, though i think its not the perfect solution, since i don't know if the client can use the chapter buttons while in a PopUp menu, if the menu would disappear unwanted at some point or if it would be possible for the client to chose one version of the video from the start menu and so on.
I am not that advanced with Encore yet, especially not with PopUp menus, since there is no proper way to preview them in Encore. I am currently searching for a mac software that can emulate PopUp menus. Dear mister Stan Jones already told me about Arcsofts TotalMedia Theater, but i can't seem to get the trial version to work via crossover and i have no windows machine available...
Do you guys think, that Pop Up menus could work for me in this case??
I know that this effect is not necessary, but i think it would be a nice thing, also for future projects...
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Have a nice day,
Nigi