Adobe Encore CS3 Tutorials
Motion Menus / Looping Options
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You can set your Motion Menus to loop so you can have your special effects that you create in another application such as After Effects play in the background forever or you can even have it time out after a while and go somewhere else. Let's go ahead and see what I'm talking about. I'm going to grab a movie clip and I'm going to just drag it into the back of this menu by holding down the Alt or Option Key and I'm going to preview this menu. So I'm going to click up here on the little CD icon and click down on the bottom of that corner to render this. It's very short, which is why it's going quickly and we'll see in a moment that I have this meteor shower. Alright. So I'm going to go ahead and exit this and show you how you can set the looping quality of this guy here. Now, I have my menu selected and I'm going to click on the Motion Tab in the Properties Panel. As you can see here, it's currently set to loop two times. I can go to this menu and say None for no loop at all or I can have it go forever. What this pretty much means is it'll stop when someone actually clicks a button. So, you know, you can't really pull a prank on someone and just have it on forever and then they're pressing buttons and nothing happens but your Motion Menu. So I'm going to put it on, let's see, three and I'm going to go and preview this again. So let's go ahead and click on this button and we should see it happen hopefully three times. That's one and that's two and three. Alright. It worked. So it looped three times. Of course, that'll be nice if you have maybe a character jumping down from like an alleyway and he lands in front of you and then you want to show that a couple of times or maybe like a really cool scene where you have a character punching through some wood and you see the splinters of the wood and a good example of that is what Jackie Chan, the martial artist who does all these great movies, when he does a really, really spectacular stunt, they show it like 7,000 times from every angle possible just so they can get their money's worth. So you can really show a really cool scene over and over again just to drive that point home. What I can also do is I can set a duration for this if I want to and I can go to the Basic Tab and put an End Action if I want to as well. So after a certain amount of time, it'd go to a different menu. So it can actually timeout. So after it's looped 20 times and no one's click a button, that probably means they're making popcorn or they went outside to get the newspaper or that kind of thing. So you can actually have it go somewhere else, maybe back to the Main Menu for example. So that's what looping will do for you. It allows you to simply determine how many times to play your Motion Menu and how to time it out if you want to.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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