Titlle page with no buttons

CaptMorgan wrote on 10/10/2009, 10:10 PM

I would like to create a title page for a video, but I don't have any chapters and do not want any buttons on the page. I'd like for the title page to be viewed until the viewer selects "Play" on the remote or clicks on the title page with a mouse. Can I do this? If so, how?

I tried creating a page with one button which would start the video, but as it turns out, the one button is always "selected" or highlighted since it's the only button on the page. I can't see that there is any way to create a single button page and have the button not be highlighted. The highlighting makes the button image look bad. I'd just as soon not have a button.

Thanks.

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Arthur.S wrote on 10/11/2009, 6:25 AM

Not tried this, but how about Insert/empty button? Should be invisible, not sure about the highlight though. You could always have a 'text only' button as the title, then keep the highlight to a minimum.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/11/2009, 6:28 AM

Well, it's actually kind of counter-intuitive, since the nature of a menu is to allow you to navigate the disc.

But you may be able to trick the program into creating one. You can, as you say, create a menu with just one button. You could even make that button invisible by making it text only and then just typing a space in as the text.

To make the highlight mask invisible, just create a color set in which all of the colors are transparent.

But don't forget to include some indication on the menu page that the viewer needs to press start to start the movie. Otherwise, it may be kind of ambiguous.

Arthur.S wrote on 10/11/2009, 11:11 AM

Sorry if I'm hi-jacking this thread a little, but how do you make a transparent colour set Steve? Could help me with one of my own problems.

CaptMorgan wrote on 10/11/2009, 1:05 PM

Yes, that was my plan, to put instructions on the page. The invisible highlight mask might be what I'm looking for. Thanks.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/11/2009, 2:11 PM

To create a transparent color set, click on the ("invisible" in this case) button on your menu page to select it and then, on the Button Properties panel, select the Color Sets page.

Click to drop-down the options for colors to the right of each of the four colors in Color Set 1. Then move the slider on the left side of each of the options panels all the way down to set each to full transparency (0% alpha). (Transparent color is usually set to full transparency by default, so you can use that slider setting as an example.)

Arthur.S wrote on 10/12/2009, 10:59 AM

Thanks for that Steve. Good info.

OGUL wrote on 10/18/2009, 3:03 PM

Is it the same thing or are they different? I mean the results!
I succeed of making this:
Button style : text only but there is nothing in it!
So as a result no menu or no button visible!
When I click to "Preview" it played when I click to "enter"

But I could not see any changes on the button after trying the following:
"Click to drop-down the options for colors to the right of each of the four colors in Color Set 1. Then move the slider on the left side of each of the options panels all the way down to set each to full transparency (0% alpha). (Transparent color is usually set to full transparency by default, so you can use that slider setting as an example.)"

So would it be a different result if I could have played with color sets?

MPM wrote on 11/1/2009, 9:15 AM

>"I would like to create a title page for a video, but I don't have any chapters
>and do not want any buttons on the page. I'd like for the title page to be viewed
> until the viewer selects "Play" on the remote or clicks on the title page with a
>mouse. Can I do this? If so, how?"

1) add your play button
2) set it to image type, image to none.
3) move the button off the visible part of the page, i.e. over to the upper left corner.
4) re-size the button as small as you can - drag the corner bounding box handle
5) done