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plasmavideo wrote on 12/9/2005, 10:46 AM
I think you might be able to do it by some trickery. You could have the go to submenu button trigger a video clip designed in Vegas that uses a still image of the main menu transitioning to a still image of the submenu. The end action of that video would be set to go to the real submenu. You could get the stills of the menus by doing a capture when in the preview mode.

In theory it should work. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to shortly in a new project I'm getting ready to do.

Tom
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 12/9/2005, 10:50 AM
I thought of that, I just don't do a lot in DVDA, so I was wondering if it were something that were possible any other way. My guess is not directly in DVDA, but that's ok, I was prepared for that.

Thanks for the reply :)

Dave
plasmavideo wrote on 12/9/2005, 11:15 AM
I know of no direct way in DVDA, but there may be a more elegant approach. That method was just an idea I had when I was conceptionally laying out how it might be done.

I believe that I've seen just what you are wanting to do in a list of requested features for DVDA next version. It would be nice to have.
Chienworks wrote on 12/9/2005, 1:43 PM
I would suspect that this is not possible in any DVD authoring program and never will be. I doubt the DVD spec allows for this. Anything you see like that on a commercial DVD is actually a video clip of that transition that was added to the DVD as any other media is.
jetdv wrote on 12/9/2005, 1:48 PM
You could make the background of the sub-menu be a video that does that and then use the delayed buttons option to keep them from appearing until the end of the video.
ScottW wrote on 12/9/2005, 1:59 PM
Sure. It's a snap if you are using a still menu - it's hard with a motion menu, but can be done.

Create your main menu and your sub menus in DVDA - initially specify that on the menu page properties that the select button solor set is none (all transparent) so you cannot tell what button has focus. Then go into preview mode and make sure the preview quality is set to best, and then click the copy to clipboard button. Launch windows paint or photoshop and paste the clipboard in then save out to a file. Repeat for each submenu. Once done you can then set your selected color set back to whatever you want.

You then take the main menu picture into Vegas, along with one of the submenus. Create the type of transition between the 2 that you want (not sure I've seen a screen breaking so you might have to get creative here).

Once you have it, render it out as an MPEG-2 using the DVDA template.

Then back in DVDA, bring in the transition clip (just drag it into the project tree window and drop it onto the root of the DVD. Then take each submenu that you created off the main menu, and in the project view, drag the submenu folders into the DVD root. Now, my suggestion would be to use the image you captured ealier of the main menu as the background for the main menu because you'll need to create some new buttons on the main menu to replace the links that got moved when you moved the submenu folders to the root (makes it easier to line things up).

On your new button, specify that the action is to link to your appropriate transition clip. Navigate into the transition clip and specify the end action is to invoke the approriate submenu. Repeat as needed.

--Scott
JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/9/2005, 3:30 PM
> I believe that I've seen just what you are wanting to do in a list of requested features for DVDA next version. It would be nice to have.

It’s already in DVDA 3.0. Look up Menu Transitions in the help file. It will explain exactly how to do it. You basically generate the transitions videos in Vegas and then add them as links between the menus modifying the end actions.

~jr