Quick DVD LAB Pro question

[sterankin]

I am creating a motion menu with a PSD file for buttons.
I will create the motion menu video and export to MPEG2 to import into DLP.
I will also create another version of this motion menu video but with a fade to white or some effect.

I want it so that when the user clicks the play button, it will seemlessly play the copy of the motion menu (with the fade to white effect etc) - before playing the main movie.

Basically so it will look like the menu is fading to white before the movie is played.


Assuming I have already created the menu files, how can I do this in DVD LAB pro?
What is this technique called? (I didnt know what to search for).

Thanks!

[aedipuss]

dvd players don't have any memory to cache a second menu. it has to read and then display it so it isn't going to be seemless. i'd probably render the second menu into an mpg-2 intro rather than a menu and make it play before the movie.

[guns1inger]

Render the entire menu as a single clip, then use menu cells to divide into an intro, the looping section, then the outro. This is all covered in online help, although you may want to go to the mediachance forums and search menu cells there for extra tricks. It is the only way to get seemless motion

[sterankin]

Thanks - guns1inger's solution sounds good and I will look into that.

[sterankin]

Another question if I may be so bold

I created the motion background in PPCS4. I used a .mov file as the background (this was 4:3) and I used some DV mpeg on another layer and created a track matte so you could see part of the DV footage through the mov background.

Anyway - seems the 4:3 mov isn't wide enough to cover the DV footage. When I dropped it into DVD LAB Pro you could see the DV footage at the side. The DV footage is widescreen I think.

Do I need to try and get a widescreen background mov file, or is there a way to make it widescreen? Should I scale it in PPCS4? Or is it my project settings in PPcs4? I think I selected DV PAL Widescreen as the setting, should this be 4:3 instead?

Hope this makes sense.

[guns1inger]

4:3 into 16:9 means doing one of the following :

1. Add bars to the sides (pillarboxing)
2. Zoom into the image and lose the top and bottom
3. Stretch the image to fit the 16:9 frame

If you add bars to the sides you will hide the DV footage in the background. Probably the simplest solution