a small image as menu cursor

jamcas wrote on 4/17/2003, 1:35 AM

Hi,

I want to create a DVD menu with several clips to choose from.

I want to have a small thumbnail image of a soccer ball as the cursor to show which option is currently selected.

can i do this in DVD Architect (im trying out the demo version) if not do you know of any DVD authoring software that can let me do this ?

Regards
Jaime

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richard-courtney wrote on 4/24/2003, 10:45 PM

The current version of DVDA does not allow this.

There is a workaround but is not pretty....

Choose a solid color for your menu background.
Place that color as the first few frames for each of your video segments.
Create a new button with the mask png file the shape and features of your soccer ball.
(white will show as highlighted area and black as invisible)
Create the face png file with nothing but a transparent background.
Edit or create the default.xml file with the names of your two png files for the face and mask.

On the page tab of DVDA choose highlight style Mask Overlay with solid white
as your color. Place text near your button to desribe the scene.
It was important to have the first few frames of your video the same as
your menu background in order to hide the other selections when not
highlighted.

I hope the next release of DVDA will allow making transparent buttons.
Perhaps with a choice of highlighted and selected button colors.

jamcas wrote on 6/11/2003, 9:02 AM

thanks for your reply, the problem now is i want a photo as the back ground image.
transparent cursor images would be a great thing for DVDA to support

BillyBoy wrote on 6/11/2003, 10:36 AM

How to do this was explained in another thread a few days ago. Basically you use a text box from the thumbnails, set it to no text, then size to the shape you want. This creates a transparent "button" that can be placed over a picture you use as a background. It is limited to shapes you can make the text box... squares and rectangles. Better than nothing I guess. Why DVD-A doesn't support making YOUR custom graphics, clickable buttons, (supported in specs?) I don't know, but it doesn't in its first version.