Moving Menu Buttons

bmelnick wrote on 1/27/2005, 11:15 AM
Hi all,

Just wondering if there is a way to create a moving button (or the illusion of a moving buttton) on a menu screen.

What I'm refering to is this .... on production DVDs, from time to time you see an icon that moves from one menu item to the next (indicating which is selected).

I would like to recreate this effect.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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richard-courtney wrote on 1/27/2005, 3:16 PM
I assume you are not talking about motion buttons, you want the icon to have motion.

The video has an area that starts to move indicating the
scene otherwise it is a still image. Not in DVDA. Each button must automatically be selected when hightlighted and DVDA does not support it.

If you use DVDLab:

Let's say your menu has three options, you would have 3 menu pages that has motion on one of the buttons.
(A,B, or C) is normal, or simply does not autoselect, would be the one with motion, with the other two as static images.
As you use up/down remote buttons the motion will stop and move to one of the other menu buttons. When you press
select on the remote, the button that is currently moving would play the selected movie.

MENU A------------------ MENU B ------------------ MENU C
A normal to VID A ----- A autoselect MENU A-- A autoselect MENU A
B autoselect MENU B - B normal to VID B------- B autoselect MENU B
C autoselect MENU C - C autoselect MENU C--- C normal to VID C

Is this what you were wanting?
bmelnick wrote on 1/27/2005, 9:18 PM
I think that's a bit beyond what I'm trying to do.

Picture this:

-- Item 1
-- Item 2
-- Item 3

The "--" is graphic image placed before the text, but is only visible when that specific item is selected.

In other words, if item 2 is selected, you would see this:

Item 1
-- Item 2
Item 3

If item 3 is selected, you would see this:

Item 1
Item 2
-- Item 3

Blue
cworld29 wrote on 1/28/2005, 12:32 AM
You need to create a custom highlight mask mask. You can get up to 3 colors out of this to give your image some detail using the color channel mask mapping.
An example of this is seen in the sample project provided on the DVDA2 disk.
bmelnick wrote on 1/28/2005, 12:09 PM
Ok ... I've created the menu, with multiple buttons ... the buttons are on a solid white background.

In the menu page properties, I've done the following:

Selected Button Colors ... Color Set 1
Activated Button Colors ... Color Set 1
Inactive Button Colors .... Color Set 2

In the Color Set Area, I've done the following:
Color Set 1:
1: (fill color) -- completely transparent.
2. (ani-alias color) ... default setting
3. (outline/background color) ... default setting
4. (transparent color) ... default setting.

Color Set 2:
1. (fill color) -- Solid White ... no transparency.
2. (ani-alias color) ... default setting
3. (outline/background color) ... default setting
4. (transparent color) ... default setting.


In each of the button Highlight areas, I've done the following:
Style: Mask overlay.

In the preview, this has the desired effect .... only the button that is selected is displayed.

Then I create the DVD .....

The same menu page shows a grey overlay over the non-selected images, and a grey outline of the selected image.

Tried on multiple tvs and multiple dvd players ... same result.

Any suggestions?
Blue