motion menu merged with bakground?

[Imeil Trion]

i want to do a motion menu on top of my bakground. But i don't want to have a rektangle chaped motion menu, i want to have it in a different shape. I am using dvd-lab and u can put a motion menu but not change it to any other than the rektangle shape that it is in.

basicly i want to cut out a part from the bakground and there merge it with the motion menu so the motion fits in the part that i have cut out of the bakground. i know it can be done somehow but i don't know how??

[guns1inger]

Anything more than very simple motion menus require more than DVD Lab can offer. I use After Effects quite a lot for motion menus, but even a good editor can do more than DVD Lab can. Make the video you want, then import it as an asset and add it to your menu.

[Imeil Trion]

ok yeah this after effects seams good.

any other tool that is good for this kind of stuff?

[canadateck]

ok yeah this after effects seams good.

any other tool that is good for this kind of stuff?

Here's another http://www4.discreet.com/products/ . But After effects is good to ,This is what I always use.

[canadateck]

Here is a free one that i think will do just what you want. Wax2

[Imeil Trion]

great thanks!

now i just hafto learn how to do this shit seams complex.

[Imeil Trion]

ehm can you explain exactly how to do that or something like that in after effects? or wax

[andkiich]

With a little bit of imagination, DVD-Lab Pro can do what you want.

How I've done it before:

1) Created an image file in Photoshop the size of the menu screen, keeping the background transparent.
2) Added my background and then "chopped out" or erased the portions of the image where the video should play.
3) Add the image to DVD-Lab for the menu, add the video, then do a render motion.

[canadateck]

Any Video you save, Just make sure to leave the Alpha Channel. Its all in the way you save the file/Video.