Duplicating DVD Menu from One Tree Hill

FightingIllini1977 wrote on 9/12/2007, 1:10 PM
There's a series called "One Tree Hill" and I saw the DVD Menu and I would like to reproduce the same concept for some home vidoes menus. The Menu begins by showing two squares side by side centered in the middle of the screen with a different portrait photo in each square. As the music plays, another overlaying square flys in from the left and another one flys in from the right. Again, each square has a new picture in it. Once the new overlaying squares stop in the middle, they fade away and now new pictures are in the orginal squares. As the music continues, the menu keeps flipping through new pictures in the same pattern and sometimes going in reverse.

I'm just learning vegas so any pointers on how to achieve this would be nice (or if it's even possible with DVD Architect).

I'm getting better with Vegas and I could definetly achieve this using multiple tracks along with track motion. Just not sure how to accomplish with a DVD Menu.

Comments

bStro wrote on 9/12/2007, 5:26 PM
These squares, are they menu buttons or are they simply decoration? If they're simply decoration, you don't have to do anything special at all in DVD Architect. Create the content in Vegas just like you said, render it to a file, and use that file as a menu background.

If you plan to add more content to it (text, buttons, etc) in DVD Architect, I recommend that the file you render out of Vegas be a DV AVI. Alternatively, you could add all your text and some pseudo buttons to the Vegas project and then insert empty buttons within DVD Architect. In this instance, since you won't be adding any content to the menu within DVD Architect, you can safely output your Vegas project as MPEG2.

Rob
FightingIllini1977 wrote on 9/12/2007, 7:00 PM
I didn't realize that you can set video as the background in DVD Architect. I just assumed you could only set a picture as background. If I can truely set the background to a video outputed to DV AVI, then that's exactly what I need.

I'll try give this a try and see if I can reproduce the menu concept. Thanks for all the help.