It took me a minute - but JB makes a good point.

I think the problem you are having with your transparent background is that when you bring it in to DVDA .... it ain't transparent anymore.

But, if you make the whole background a movie - with the logo you want in the corner...then the rest of the layout will sit on top of it - and you should be good to go.

Then, all you have to do is have like a 5 second clip and set it to loop continuosly.

that is a good suggestion to make the background one movie file movie, but the thing is, I want to use the animated image as a button as well as other parts of the layout. I know that in dvd studio pro you can select any part of an image to be a button, any functionality like that in dvd architect?....any suggestions?

Oh. You wanted a transparent button.

Hmm. The preset buttons in DVD A have transparent areas and some of them are even animated. So there is a way to do it. I don't know if those are video files or more like an animated PNG file (if that's even possible).

Actually on my computer, the folder with the animated buttons is located here...
C:\Program Files\Sonic Foundry\DVD Architect 1.0\_Themes\animated1.thm

Maybe you can load a few of those into vegas and tell something or other. Or maybe someone here has played around with this already. ???

JBJones

I have played with it a little...

You can do this... drop the animated1 template in the work area. Alone its a circle with the edges animated in changing color. You can get more fancy.

Take some animated GIF, like remember that silly baby dancing all around in his diaper from a couple years ago? I used that.

At first you'll just see a faint image of the baby still showing through the button, not animation. Now click on the button, so you see the object tab at right. Then click animate thumbnail and duh... the bady does his little dance inside the button and it becomes a fancy button.

So far it only goes to itself when you click it. To use it click on the modify button to the right of the link information. Then select another file from the file selecton offering. I just tried loading a image to see if it would link to it and it does. I added about a minute worth of "My Way" as the audio background and tried not to spill my coffee as I watched the baby dance around INSIDE the button. That's as far as I went.

There was up a similar question, some time ago - I tried to follow, to use transparent GIF (still) for menu, and also as for background, - but this did not work (transparency was lost,
I used PNG instead - This was OK

right png file works but you can't animate it can you?????