Animated Menu and buttons


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Animated Menu and buttons
by Lance Copeland on Oct 5, 2009 at 6:34:29 pm

Hi everyone,

I have been tasked to revamp an existing DVD with a new animated menu. The client really likes the look of the buttons and wants them to remain the same, however they want the background to animate in. Currently the buttons are over the entire opening animation. I understand that I am supposed to set the Loop Point of the menu to where I would like the buttons to appear. Unfortunately this isn't working. The buttons were made within DVDSP, with the shape LightFrameLargeNTSC, (The client loves this look). Is there some way to pull this off? Seems pretty simple, I just want to delay the buttons from appearing until after the intro animation is complete.

Thank you!

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Re: Animated Menu and buttons
by Noah Kadner on Oct 5, 2009 at 7:31:54 pm

Complex buttons and animation backgrounds cannot co-exist on a DVD. Your choices are-

still menu bg with complex buttons or motion menu with single highlight layer. Just about all commercial DVDs use the latter option.

Noah

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Re: Animated Menu and buttons
by Lance Copeland on Oct 5, 2009 at 7:42:16 pm

Bummer, I figured that might be the case. I just hoped I was missing something. Thank you for the information Noah.

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