Preview Window in Menu

petroid wrote on 3/21/2005, 7:34 PM
I have searched through about 1/3 of the 3000+ DVDA posts and have gotten a little idea of what I'm up against.

Here's my question:

Can I create a menu that allows me to scroll through a list of buttons that link to scenes and when highlighted, the scene will preview in a small window? When the next button is highlighted, its video will replace the previous scene in the same window. When the button is selected, the movie will play from that scene forward. If this requires separate menus for each scene, it sounds like too much work.
I guess its sort of a rollover effect with a split screen.

An alternative would be to have the buttons fixed in position and the video for each button static unless highlighted and, when highlighted, the video becomes active and is enlarged but in the same position.

I know it sounds like a complex operation and may not be possible in DVDA, but can masking perhaps provide a suitable approximation of this effect?

Any suggestions appreciated, but looking for the simplest solution. Ideally, I would like to do this from inside DVDA.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 3/21/2005, 8:21 PM
Can't do it with DVDA. You should be able to do most of this with DVD Lab or DVD Lab Pro.

--Scott
bStro wrote on 3/22/2005, 7:18 AM
As you fear, doing this in DVDA would require separate menus for each scene / button. And after you prepare the DVD project, you'd need another program (MenuEdit, for example) to alter the buttons. See this thread for more info.

Rob
petroid wrote on 3/22/2005, 3:10 PM
What about the possibility of using masking to animate a highlighted thumbnail? Can this be done?