Re: Framing motion menu video clips

I use a frame (via export out of ReelDVD for reasons I posted earlier) from my motion menu as a target background. In PS I create a transparent layer above that, and use the rectangular selection tool to make a selection that parallels the border of one of your picture in pictures. If you hold the shift key down, you can go and do the same with each of your other PIP's and you will add to your selection--ending up with four (assuming four PIP's) rectangular selections with 'marching ants'. If you use the bucket tool in PS, and set your foreground to pure black (by clicking on the small white and black squares to set pure white and black, and then clicking on the larger wh/bl squares until black is set for foreground), you can click within one of the selections and fill all of them with black. You should now have 4 black rectangles on a transparent layer(with the selection marching ants still present), covering your PIP's. If you go to 'select'>'modify'>'contract', you can contract the selection by 10 or so pixels and hit OK. Your original selection will contract now by 10 pixels, and if you hit 'delete', the centers of the rectangles will be removed, leaving you with a black rectangular frame around each of your PIP's. Just delete the background/target layer, and save the single transparent layer to then be imported on top of your motion menu in ReelDVD. Once you do that, you can then define your buttons by dragging the button creation/selection tool in ReelDVD to encompass each individual black frame.