Encore motion menu softer than static!

[Peter Rush]

Anyone noticed this? I preview a menu and all is fine, but then select 'animate buttons' and once it's rendered it is noticeably softer - specially any button text.

Is there a way of getting to the encode settings for the menus to up the quality/bit rate?

Cheers

Pete

[Ann Bens]

With dvd its usually a fields issue depending on
Which Encore, what is your source, DVD or BD, DL used?

[Peter Rush]

I'm using Encore CS5, My footage is 1920X1080 AVCHD from Sony NEXCAM. I output to both DVD and Blu-ray

It's not badly blurred and I'm sure most people would not notice it - I guesss I'm pixel peeping but it is ever so softer once rendered.

Pete

[Ann Bens]

For CS5 do not use DL as it flips the fields (hence the blurred thumbnails).
Export from Premiere directly to mpeg2-dvd and import that into Encore.
For BD you can use DL. I never did.

[Peter Rush]

That's how I do it Ann - my issue is with the editable menu text in Encore - If I have a static menu the text is nice and sharp but If I have video thumbnails and create a motion menu - the rendered text becomes blurred. There seem to be no settings over the motion menu render to maybe increase the bit rate for example.

[Battle Vaughan]

Long shot. Assuming you're using After Effects to make the motion menu? Right click the composition window, be sure frame blending is Off....like I say, long shot....