DVD Maestro - Animated Buttons on DVD menu

[medoleg]

1. How can you create, in DVD Maestro, dynamic subpictures (Animated Buttons) on a DVD menu with a static background image?
2. Is there an undo option in DVD Maestro?

Thanks

[crusty]

1. What sort of animation are you talking about? You can have motion buttons but as far as I know you cannot animate the sub picture.
2.try ctrl-z.

[medoleg]

I would like to create a menu, with multiple buttons, where each button is a picture representing the beginning of a chapter. I would like those pictures to be dynamic (video, lasting about 10 sec). Clicking on those buttons should start playing the chapter they are linked to.

Thanks

[SLK001]

What you want can be done, but not in Maestro. You need to create a menu video, then map the buttons in Maestro.

[crazycatz0]

this sure can be done in maestro. i just did this on a DVD of my own. you must first create a movie file in an editing software with the little clips shrunk to the size you want and then you can put a still background picture behind those videos in the editing software and render it to a dvd video file and then just create the menu as normal. the subpicture can still be a still image too. i dont know what editing software you have, but if you use premiere i could help you out more.

[SLK001]

Maybe I wasn't clear on my last response. Maestro can IMPORT and USE your magical movie button video, but it CANNOT create it on its own. You'll have to use something like AfterFX, or like I use, an AVISynth script.

[BJ_M]

AVISynth can encode to mpeg and make video wall type video against a static background without even seeing what your doing? :P

[SLK001]

AVISynth can encode to mpeg and make video wall type video against a static background without even seeing what your doing? :P

It can't encode, but it will frameserve a script to TMPG or CCE which will encode it. It ain't easy, but if it can be done, AVISynth can do it. I don't put video into buttons, but I put video elsewhere in the menu (using layers, masks and overlays).

[Zetti]

AVISynth can encode to mpeg and make video wall type video against a static background without even seeing what your doing? :P

BJ, please, could you post a sample of your AVISynth script ?

Thanks,

Zetti

[BJ_M]

AVISynth can encode to mpeg and make video wall type video against a static background without even seeing what your doing? :P

BJ, please, could you post a sample of your AVISynth script ?

Thanks,

Zetti

it was a question -- not a statement ..

i would use a NLE to do this -- but if someone can use AVISynth , all the power to them (far far far better than I with scripting)

[SLK001]

Here's a script I used years ago. It has a static background (RED_V5_BG.BMP), a black and white mask (MENU_MASK_BG.BMP) and a video clip (OT). The mask defines areas where one part shows (the "white" area) and the area where the other part shows (the "black" area). Read the AVISynth manual for more info on LAYERS and MASKS. The end result is a video that fades in in the area that the MASK defines, then fades back out at the end. This is for a single video in the menu, but you could add other overlay areas for more videos.


LoadPlugin("e:\program files\mpeg2dec\mpeg2dec.dll")

OT=mpeg2source("H:\MENUS\SINGA.D2V")

LEN=1250

TOP=converttoRGB32(OT)

BASE=converttoRGB32(IMAGESEQUENCE("H:\MENUS\RED_V5 _BG.BMP",1,1,24).loop(LEN))

MASK_CLIP=converttoRGB32(IMAGESEQUENCE("H:\MENUS\M ENU_MASK_BG.BMP",1,1,24).loop(LEN))

overlay_clip=MASK(top,mask_clip)

out=layer(base,overlay_clip,"add",255,0,0,0)

converttoyuy2(out)

out2=fadeout2(out,42)

out3=reverse(fadeout2(reverse(out2),48))