DVD Lab - Menu Text Dissapering

[Peplogic]

Hello All,

I know I have posted many question on this forum and I appreciate all the help. I think I have pretty much figured everything out (Im sure to everones delight), but alas I do have one more question (I Hope)....It seems that when I mike a motion background, or when I have multiple objects on my Menu, some of the Text Dissapears.... By That I mean lets assume that I have a motion Background. The word Play Moive (With the movie Linked to it). The word Scene Selection (With The Chapters linked to it)...When I compile then Burn everything comes out peachy....the Menu is rendered and moving the words play movie is there, but Scen selection isnt......unless I push the down arrow on my remote in which case Scene selection comes up and play movie dissapears......This problem also happens with static background...

In short I cant keep all the text, on the screen at the same time

?????

ANy one ever have this problem?
Thanks

Peplogic

[Safesurfer]

Sounds to me like you may have changed the visibility properties of the links. Have a look at this link for a description of what each property does:-

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/Help/links.htm

[petar]

Yeah I came to this problem once. The way DVD-Lab works is that everything you include in a menu is a background image (the text plus still image or video), i.e. the text you type is inserted as part of the background not as a subpicture. Nothing wrong with that it's just that when you create a motion menu you must render it with the text first (i.e. "glue" the text into the video) otherwise you'll get what you're getting - the text is not there and you're only seeing the highlight when you move around the buttons.

DVD-Lab warns you of this. When you insert a video to a menu it tells you something like "all objects will be replaced with ... bla, bla". Under Menu you have a "render motion" option. Do that first, then encode it (DVD-Lab doesn't have an encoder; it will produce an AVI file) and insert it back. Just don't move the text any more because your highlights will be all wrong (if you move the text you'll see the same text behind "glued" into the video).

Or you can insert the text as a subpicture. Create it with some drawing application (Photoshop or whatever) save it as .bmp and import it with Menu/External S-Picture/Load.

[andkiich]

You do not have to render the text into the background clip. It's all about setting the initial state(normal) of the text. By default, it's set to 0% transparency. Crank up the transparency to 100%(which equals no transparency) and all the text will show on top of the video.

[petar]

No, I don't think the transparency has anything to do with this. All the objects you put in the menu must be part of the background. Therefore you must render them all together.

If you don't want to render the only option is to put the text as a subpicture (what I mentioned at the end of my previous post) but then you're limited to 4 colours including the background one.

[andkiich]

petar,

you're correct. I meant to say subpicture. You can use 1 subpicture for your links and the others for just displaying the text.

[petar]

petar,

you're correct.

I can be sometimes though my wife won't agree with you.
My 9th post today. It's obvious I've got f**k all to do today at work.