Make button image from a menu page

DarrenNewsgroup wrote on 11/21/2012, 8:44 AM

I want my top level menu page to contain a button which takes you to a sub-page. The sub-page has lots of other buttons and eye-candy on it. I want to copy this sub-page's layout and use that as the image in the top level menu button. I could not see in the sub-page layout how to take a snapshot of it to then paste as the top level button image. Is this possible in DVD Architect?

I have DVD Architect Studio 5.0 and I did try searching the forums first but didn't come up with anything.

Thanks
Darren .)

Comments

vtxrocketeer wrote on 11/21/2012, 9:34 AM

If all you want is an image, why not take a screen grab, crop to taste in your photo/image editor, shrink to button size, and use that as your image-only button?

mikkie wrote on 11/21/2012, 11:15 AM

As vtxrocketeer posted your best bet is going with a screen capture for that sort of thing, though I wanted to add a quick note for more involved stuff where you might be tempted to use screen grabs as well [I can't see it mattering for a button fill]... I've run into a few cases where I've had to render the DVD layout, then feed the menu mpg2 back into Vegas Pro, taking snapshots there -- mpg2 rendering in VP &/or DVDA can slightly shift things, particularly with stills &/or compositing [layers]. IMHO adding text for menus in VP looks a little better than for example adding it in P/Shop -- that slight shifting on render can also cause problems there when it comes to button highlight masks.

DarrenNewsgroup wrote on 11/22/2012, 8:09 AM

Thanks for the answers. This was what I was afraid of - no support in the program itself. I have moved from a competitor's old program (probabyl best not to mention the name here) that managed this easily by drag and drop of the sub-menu page onto the top level menu button. As to why I don't go back to the old program - it doesn't handle 16:9 menus or work in Windows 7 (veterans of DVD workshopping might know the program).

Darren