DVD MAESTRO Question

[dmbware41]

Is ther a guide or can someone tell me how to create animated Menus?

[Machine514]

That pretty funny. I am actually planning my motion menus right now.

From what I understand the animated menus are not created in Maestro or any authoring program. I have read in posts and websites, that you have to use something like Adobe After Effects. You can import video files and shrink them to fit on one page. I am working on this now. I can put together a tutorial when I am done. Too much to explain right now.

-Machine

[BJ_M]

create a animated clip or any lenth, drop it onto a menu - done - now you have a animated menu ..

or create 1 or more still images , drag onto 1 or more menus and set timer and link menus ..
maestro will encode the still image to a mpeg file (notice the new dir maestro creates for menu files it encodes)

[BJ_M]

a really good guide is here on this website on other types of menus that you can do in maestro ..

[Machine514]

You have that link for the animated menu guides? That may make my life much easier!

-Machine

[jnk76]

Is there a guide that shows how to import movies and create menus and have buttons linking to movies?

[BJ_M]

its all in the very complete maestro binder that you got when you purchased it and also all repeated in the help file ..

[housepig]

its all in the very complete maestro binder that you got when you purchased it

- housepig

[Machine514]

I will consult the manual! Thanks!

-Machine

[BJ_M]

i will give you a short primer on the buttons though - create a button , right click on button , select where it points to (another menu or a chapter)

import movie - drag the m2v clip into the asset window or directly onto the timeline

create a menu -- the menus themselves (the graphics part of it) is not created in maestro - but in photoshop or paintshop pro or dvd menu studio (or and paint type program) - you can create layers or not - your choice. you drag this image into the menu in maestro and then create button or buttons and set up all your settings for menus ..

[Quigonsean]

Great one here http://www.geocities.com/eaussie01au/photoshop.html
Also http://www.geocities.com/eaussie01au/maestro.html
And simple one here http://www.fukrulez.com/index2.php

The manual is a bit confusing because it calls submask by subpicture, and refers to your submask as Button Highlights etc... so it can be a bit confusing, plus it's 688 pages, although a bit overwhelming I did read it all, and it was imensly helpfull.

Sean Ward

ps I may have some tutorials in .rtf form and pdf form that I cut and paste from online. If you would like email me and I will diggem' up for ya and send'em to ya.
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