Motion Menu asset preparation

[SaSi]

I want to prepare a video clip to use as a motion menu (in Scenarist). What I want is to have a background texture with 5 thumbnmailed videos playing. In simple words, take the first 1 minute out of 5 separate video, reduce each one to around 120 x 90 and "embedd" them over the texture so that they all play at the same time side by side.

I can do all up to creating the 5 miniature clips. I can also use the final clip as a motion menu background in Scenarist.

What I can't figure out is how to combine the 5 miniature clips as thumbnails in a combo clip.

Anyone has done that? What tool? Anyone with a good suggestion ?

[bugster]

I have done this kind of thing with Premiere. if you have this goto www.wrigleyvideo.com for some great tutorials.

EDIT, that will get you the video you can encode to mpeg for the motion menu, how you add buttons etc in Scenarist I have no idea, but I guess you already know that bit.

[racer-x]

If you use Premiere, you'll use the Transform filter to acomplish that. You can also use the transform filter to animate the clips if you want.

I would also recomend that you use the Tittler in premiere to make the text in the menu. You'll have to make links to the text or thumbnails in your Authoring App.

[ImaWeTodd]

On the cheap...

I made a guide for doing this: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/164477.php

It uses Avisynth to do the work. You don't really need DVD-Lab as the guide shows.

However, the newest version of DVD-Lab will do this and produce an AVI for you. Probably the easyist "free trial" way to get a motion avi.

Also, in the guide there is a link to a discussion of at least 4 other ways to do this.

Todd

[dcsos]

I like my Motion clips large so I use premiere and
make 320 x240 clips that consist of about 30 seconds of live video, but at
the end , I dissove on the timeline into a clip that ends where my little clip began..
That is to say, the clip internally dissolves and the new subclip ends with the very first frame on the timeline...
in this way my motion menu item appears to loop seamlessly!

I make an AVI but I'm using Sonic Foundry's ARCHITECT not scenerist

[cinemode]

I have done this kind of thing with Premiere. if you have this goto www.wrigleyvideo.com for some great tutorials.

EDIT, that will get you the video you can encode to mpeg for the motion menu, how you add buttons etc in Scenarist I have no idea, but I guess you already know that bit.

I didnt know that premiere can do dis.... I thot after effect will be a better and faster tool to create such menus (motion with embebbed thumbnails).

correct me if i am wrong.
thanks

[SLK001]

You can do this using AVISynth and frameserving. I've even seen scripts written by people that do exactly what you are doing. Search the Doom9 AVISynth Usage forum fot this script (from about a year or so ago).

Adobe After FX is also a tool that can do this (and with a very steep learning curve).

[bugster]

I have done this kind of thing with Premiere. if you have this goto www.wrigleyvideo.com for some great tutorials.

EDIT, that will get you the video you can encode to mpeg for the motion menu, how you add buttons etc in Scenarist I have no idea, but I guess you already know that bit.

I didnt know that premiere can do dis.... I thot after effect will be a better and faster tool to create such menus (motion with embebbed thumbnails).

correct me if i am wrong.
thanks

goto www.wrigleyvideo.com has a tutorial for Picture in Picture, which is exactly what this is. As to wether After efects is easier or quicker I can't comment.

[SaSi]

I followed bugster's advice well back in November. Pretty amazing tutorials there. I've learned useful stuf about Premier.

But, in the meantime, I tried DVDLab. It has the ability to produce a motion menu like no other tool. Pretty fast and pretty accurate.

You can use DVDLab even just for creating the motion menu and use that clip in any other authoring program.

[--juggernaut--]

But, in the meantime, I tried DVDLab. It has the ability to produce a motion menu like no other tool. Pretty fast and pretty accurate.

Adobe Encore DVD does motion menus quite easily as well, but for the price DVDLab is great! Can't beat the fully functional free trial either.

[racer-x]

I too use DVD-Lab, but all my motion menus are created in Premiere. Premiere is much better suited to making motion menus. DVD-Lab allows you to make some really cool "Switched Menus", especially if you incorperate Motion menus into them. You can make some real cool effects with animation and invisible links.