Make buttons active "x" seconds in

rwchad wrote on 7/26/2004, 8:02 AM

Hi,

Is it possible with DVDA 2 to have a motion menu that only shows button highlights after a certain amount of seconds? We need to have the video play then the buttons will come in as part of the video BG, then we need the highlights (subpicture) to show for selection. Thanks in advance.

Rich

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ScottW wrote on 7/26/2004, 8:09 AM

Do this as part of your introductory video. You construct your menu with the first button, then (thanks Rob!) go to preview, capture the screen shot to the clipboard, paste the shot from the clipboard into your favorate photo software, save as a JPEG (or whatever format you like, say TGA) and pull it into Vegas.

Add the next menu button, repeat the process. Pull the new image into Vegas and cross-fade to the new image.

Repeat as needed.

Once you are done, render the video out from Vegas, along with whatever audio you want, then use this material as your introductory video; when it ends, you'll transition to your menu and it's at that point your highlighting will appear.

--Scott

rwchad wrote on 7/27/2004, 6:06 AM

Scott,

Thanks for the advice. The client would like the BG to stay moving while the buttons are hot, so we cant go to a still.... thanks again

RWC

ScottW wrote on 7/27/2004, 6:37 AM

So make your background on your menu the same as the background on your introductory video; Then just overlay the buttons from the still on the moving background (there's a couple of different ways you could approach this in Vegas).

JaysonHolovacs wrote on 7/28/2004, 9:29 AM

One thing you could do would be to, before you make your screenshot, remove the background and change it to some ugly color that is not used in your buttons. When you import this into Vegas, you can Chromakey out the background, leaving all your buttons sitting on a transparant background. You could also do this in a photo program before loading to Vegas, which would reduce your Vegas rendering times quite a bit I think. Chromakeying a still is much less work then independently chromakeying every frame of a video. From there you can do all sorts of things. With a combination of Pan/crop and track motion, you can make all the buttons move around the screen independently, apply different effect to each, etc. Just make sure they end up in the correct location at the end of the video, and the transition to the menu should be clean.

However, you might need to find a way to pause the background motion video without it looking weird because you may have some delay in the transition from introductory video to menu video.

-Jayson