TMPGEnc DVD Author yellow highlight when on selected object.

[Dragonfly2337]

I have been trying to change the yellow color of the highlight (selection) in DVD Author after reading about the Hex Editor and changing the 44 44 to 33 33 blue and that is what I want, it worked, almost. This worked for the first two menu's but I cannot change the rest of them (6 menu's total 1 main and 5 with 6 chapter motion thumbs each) . They still show up as yellow. Anyone have any success with changing all of the menu's to have the highlight from yellow to another color?

[Dragonfly2337]

From the TMPGEnc DVD Author BBS
http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbscgi/ebbs/board.cgi#topic487

Borax

To change the yellow color of selected buttons lets say to blue just load the file
containing the menu (i.e. Vts_XX_0.vob) into a hexeditor and change the bytes 0xA3
and 0xA4 from 44 44 to another value like 33 33 for blue,
22 22 for green
or 11 11 for orange.
(I have not tried out other colors yet)
Example:
1. "Normal" HighLight color yellow

2. HighLight color set to blue:

results in

("Chapter #1" is selected)
The change applies to all buttons in this menu. If you want to change the HighLight
color for different buttons to diffenent colors, some more bytes have to be changed.
Have a look to this article:
http://home.mn.rr.com/dvdmaster/AdvancedDVD.pdf

Dragonfly007/2337

I have been trying to change the yellow color of the highlight (selection) in DVD
Author after reading about the Hex Editor and changing the 44 44 to 33 33 blue and
that is what I want, it worked, almost. This worked for the first two menu's but I
cannot change the rest of them (6 menu's total 1 main and 5 with 6 chapter motion
thumbs each) . They still show up as yellow. Anyone have any success with changing
all of the menu's to have the highlight from yellow to another color?

Borax

OK, if you have more than one page for Chapters it is a little more complicated,
as the bytes in the vob file are at different byte offsets from the beginning of
the file. However this can be solved with vobedit
(get it from Derrow: http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/index.html ).
Procedure:
Open the VTS_XX_0.vob with vobedit (open button in the lower left corner)
In the left window you see the "content" of the vob file. Double click on the first
line 000000 [Navigation Pack] [VOB: 1]
A Hex Editor window pops up. Change the "44 44" bytes in the line 000000A0 to your
preferred values like "33 33" and click "OK"
Back in the "Main Vobedit window" scroll down the left window until you find the next
"[Navigation Pack]"entry. Double click on the line and change again the "44 44" in the
Hexeditor at line 000000A0. Do this for all "Navigation Packs"
The changes are saved immediately.

Dragonfly007/2337

After an hour of changing each one, and still not done, I have decided that it's just
not worth it. I either need to make only a two menu(one main the other chapter)movie
with TMPGEnc (the yellow is easy to change then)or accept the fact that I would have
to do so much more work to get it to another color or use another program entirely.
Thanks for your reply I was really happy to see the color change but don't have the
patience or time to go through every navigational link and change the color on all
the movies past menu 2. Hopefully this color change will be something that TMPGEnc
will add in the future. Otherwise I am really happy about the program but will be using
another program until this is changed.

TMPGEnc, Thank you for making a really good program, love the motion thumbs that you
don't have to render yourself and the GUI is also very nice. And thank you for the 30
day fully functional free trial.

Later,
Dragonfly007

[johns0]

Thanx for the info,worked like a charm and no more pukey yellow

[Dragonfly2337]

Borax

>After an hour of changing each one, and still not done...
OK, I understand!
If you are still interested in this topic, there is a very fast possibility:
Use the hexeditor from nextsoft: http://download.nextsoft.de/hexedit.zip
It's German, but you can change the language to English if you like
(menu: "Optionen"->"Einstellungen" click on the directory symbol, choose English.
Close and restart the Hex-Editor)
Open your VTS_XX_0.vob file with this hexeditor. Use the search & replace function.
Search for: "000000444473A0111173A00000000000"
replace with "000000333373A0111173A00000000000"
(or whatever color settings you like instead of "4444") with the "replace all" option.
Save the file. This takes no longer than half a minute.

Dragonfly007/2337

Your suggestion worked. I tried the rest of the numbers.
00 00
11 11
22 22
33 33
55 55
66 66
77 77
88 88
99 99

And for TMPGEnc DVD Author I got these colors as the highlights.

Search For:
000000444473A0111173A00000000000 Yellow Highlight Color

Replace with:
000000000073A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000111173A0111173A00000000000 for Red Highlight Color

000000222273A0111173A00000000000 for Bright Green Highlight Color

000000333373A0111173A00000000000 for Blue Highlight Color

000000555573A0111173A00000000000 for Light Pink Highlight Color

000000666673A0111173A00000000000 for Bright Aqua Blue Highlight Color

000000777773A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000888873A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000999973A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

I am back to using TMPGEnc DVD Author now.

Thank You.

You wouldn't happen to know the HEX for the selection color?


Dragonfly007/2337

Forgot to mention that I had to do this to the VIDEO_TS VOB file for
the main menu highlight to change color and the VTS_01_0 VOB file
for the rest of the chapters to highlight in the color that I want them to.

Thanks Again

[magicmycote]

Does anyone have a reference chart for the different colors? 44 44 is yellow, 33 33 is blue, and you listed a few others....where can I get a list of all available?

[tflux]

If you want to get a bit more fancy with the hex editing..
000000444473A0111173A00000000000 is the default string in there

the first part.. 444473A0 is the one where you cursor has it selected
the second part.. 111173A0 is after you've selected it

by default its a yellow highlight with a red 'click' color. and the transparency in this case is quite low (cant see much of the original image)

if you were to change it the 444473A0 to 11117320 and 111173A0 to 11117350.. ie: 00000011117320111173500000000000, you would have a red highlight, with a very transparent highlight (you can see more), and when you click/select it, the transparency reduces to make it more solid.

hope this helps some people who are annoyed by tmpg's lack of features when it comes to changing highlight colors.

[generaljoy]

This is really great! I haven't tried it yet but I would like to ask for some additional help if anyone can give it to me -

When I change the buttons the highlight area conforms to the lines of the image. Like one of the buttons I made is a road sign. It highlights just to the edge of the image. However with the chapters, I've made them a shape other than rectangular, it's like an oval leaf shape, the highlight is still rectangular it doesn't conform to the shape of the chapter. All the image files are transparent and PSD files.

How can I change that, if at all?

Thanks a lot.

[lordsmurf]

Don't new versions let you change colors? I believe they do.

[generaljoy]

Don't new versions let you change colors? I believe they do.

Nope. I have the newest and you still can't change the color.

[johns0]

You are wrong,the newest version does let you change colors.

[generaljoy]

You are wrong,the newest version does let you change colors.

What version is that?? I have 1.5. or some such.

[guns1inger]

The latest version 1.6.x

[hudsonf]

If you check you will find that version 1.5 is not the latest version.

[generaljoy]

Well I'm glad they added that. I thought 1.5 was the latest. My bad.

However, I still can't seem to understand if I can change the highlight area on chapters.

I wrote to them directly and they sent me a very weird reply with a snippet from the Help files.