a query about Panographic menus

[wan2no]

Hi,

Sorry if i spelt it wrong or have the wrong word. I mean the menus where you start off in a room and you can browse through the enter room when you click on a button. Is this done with video. That is, would I have to make a video clip of me browsing through the room then edit the video in such a way that i break each part of the room as a seperate video clip. Or can i do it with just pictures. I honestly don't know those are the two things that came to mind when i thought of it

Can anyone help me with this

[redwudz]

I haven't done that, but it sounds like something you could do with a authoring program with hidden menu buttons on objects or areas so you could go to a different view.

Or do you mean a 360 degree view? That would be a bit more complex. Some examples: http://www.panoramas.dk/

[Alex_ander]

A menu with such effects is usually a combination of stills and motion menu cells called menu transitions. Some authoring applications are capable of generating such transitions for 'standard' effects. E.g. in DVDLab Pro there's an option for panorama menu creation: you load a panoramic still for authoring and the program creates motion transitions where a user goes from one part of picture with its own button set to another part (left-right direction). More complicated transitions may want specially encoded clips and non-standard tricks.