Scenarist problem

[showmystage]

How to add text on menu with Scenarist ?
Thanks!

[jtoolman2000]

Jeez, shouldn't be in the manual you recieved with it when you spent 20+ thousand for it?

[showmystage]

I mean to add a button on a active menu .
I heard that Scenarist can do it,but I don't know how

[adam]

You should head over to www.doom9.net and read the Scenarist guide as well as the guide on using Photoshop to create menus. I'd give you a direct link but I think the site won't let you do that.

If you want to add text or some sort of button icon you have to do that outside of Scenarist. It would actually be part of the picture, so you would use any photo editing program to create it. You will also have to create a subpic for use as the overlay. Basically you have to make the button a solid color usually blue, red, white, or black and then make the entire rest of the image another solid color.

Then in Scenarist you add that background pic (or m2v for motion menu) and build your track. Drag and drop the subpic you created onto the track.

Then go to the Scenario editor and add all of your tracks how you want them. There's really no way for me to explain this its just too wide open. The Scenarist manual covers all of it in depth.

Now go back to the track editor tab and find the track for your menu and highlight it and hit view/simulation window.

This is where you draw your buttons. Make sure it is set to design mode. Select the New Button icon near the top and drag and draw a box around the button on the background. Draw all of your buttons and then make your connections using the arrow tools. (like if you have 4 buttons stacked vertically you would use the up arrow to draw up arrows from the lower button to the next one up and so on. And do the same going down etc... Thus on your remote if you were on the top button and hit down it would go down to the next button.)

Now you have to set the colors. You map each color to another color and set the opacity. So let's say your button is red and you want it to stay that way...you'd map red to red. And let's say you set the background to blue, you'd map this to any other color you want but set the opacity to 0%. Now when the subpic is played it will be invisible and all you will see is the highlighted button. To test how everything looks set it to software simulation at the very top and then hit play and it will play just like it would on your tv. Once everything is setup close the simulation window and go back to the scenario editor tab. You'll see that the track where you added buttons will have a little triangle on one corner. Click here and hold and drag it to the item you want to link to. A little pic of the menu will come up and you then click on the button you want to take you there.

So let's say your menu is located in Titleset 1 and the first button on the menu is PLAY. Your main movie is located in Titleset 2. You'd drag the line from your menu (titleset 1) over to titleset 2. On the pic that pops up you would select the first button which is labeled. Once you've made all your links go back to simulation window and test everything. It will function just like it would play on a dvd player.

You can also set all of your links all from the simulation window but I find it easier to use the scenario editor. Scenarist ain't that easy to learn but once you figure it out you'll see that its node style is the only way to go when authoring DVDs and you'll be able to do anything you want in 1/10th of the time it takes to use the more "user friendly" authoring programs.

Read the manual! Its fantastic and has full color guides covering every facet of this great piece of software.