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Adding Menue Audio Track selection and soubtitles on/off

Nov 22, 2012 8:07 AM

Tags: #audio #buttons #sound #encode #subtitles #menus

Hi,

 

with some help from replies to other questions I managed to get a working DVD/BR with cool 2.0 / 5.1 sound and subtitles.

 

But for now I do have to select the audio track manually and also I do have to enable subtitles from the DVD/BR players menu.

 

So I wanted to add a DVD/BR menu where you can choose the audio track which should be played and to switch on and of subtitles.

 

I edited a nice PS PSD File with some buttons and they show up in Encore and I can do some "encore" editig like moving tham arrond or link to some other elements.

 

My question: How do I get e.g. the Button "2.0 Stereo" to select the stereo track and the button "5.1 Surround" to select the 5.1 track. An other button should switch on/off the right subtitle

 

Than I'd like to have a button which starts the video with the selected audio and if selected subtitle on.

 

At the end of the movie I like to be back in the menu.

 

I bet thats simple

 

I thought to create different timelines and add the audio/video/subtitle, but that i have a lot of timelines in all sort of combinations; e.g. video ON, 5.1 sound ON, subtitle OFF ..... video ON, 2.0 sound ON, subtitle ON etc ....

 

Thansk for any suggestion . and BIG thanks. Götz

865 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: Stan Jones, Feb 1, 2013 9:18 AM
 
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  • Stan Jones
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    1. Stan Jones,
    Nov 22, 2012 9:10 AM   in reply to greinick
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    Congratulations on your successes so far! This should help:

     

    Audio and Subtitle Track Navigation.

     

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe8074010 38582db29-7e8ca.html

     

    Use the "specify link."

     
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  • greinick
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    2. greinick,
    Dec 19, 2012 10:52 AM   in reply to Stan Jones
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    Puhhhh ... finaly I'm close to the goal.

     

    I do have two more question:

     

    1. One of my menu items dont show his selected upb picture (dont know teh correct english description ... sorry); its like the shadow when it is selected.

     

    2. When ever I click on one menue button, the film starts instantly with that e.g. audio track selecte.

     

    But I'd like

     

    a) select an audio track and

    b) than select subtitles on/off and

    c) klick a start button with this selected options.

     

    Is that possible? If yes how ...

     

    Thanks once more! Regards.

     

    I want this done before Christmas

     
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  • traveler6666
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    3. traveler6666,
    Jan 22, 2013 12:49 PM   in reply to greinick
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    Although late, I found out that you have to link each selection button to itself agian. By doing so the setup menu stays and the audio or subtitle track is selected.

     

    Best regards

     
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  • greinick
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    4. greinick,
    Jan 24, 2013 5:18 AM   in reply to traveler6666
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    Hi thanks once more for your hint.

     

    So far I do have the menue:

     

    - selecting the wanted audio track (e.g. stereo 2.0 // suround 5.1)

    - selecting subtitles

     

    and

     

    - start the movie with the selected audio/subtitle.

     

    But now I have one more question:

     

    For now I cant get an indication of which audio track is selected or if the subtitles are on or of....

     

    I added two layers for each button and tried with (=1) / (=3) ... if I move the mouse over the button in preview mode, the button changes his apereance as expected (I added a √ symbol). But when I click the button it dose not change his apereance (while the wanted auditrack is selectet.)

     

    I added an Screenshot; may be im on the wron path ? Would be great if somewone could help me !

     

    Regards

     

    encore_menue.jpg

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    5. Bill Hunt,
    Jan 27, 2013 5:37 PM   in reply to greinick
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    In the Button Layer Sets, shown to the lower right, I do not see any Sub-picture Highlight Layers. What did you want to happen, to indicate that each Button has been highlighted?

     

    Here is a look at a Scene Selection Menu, with the "Zone 1" Button highlighted - a "Dot." Notice the Button's Layer Set (the only one twirled open) in the Layer's Palette in Photoshop.

     

    Sub-picture_Highlight_Layer.png
    That particular example has a Vector Mask, to limit the Sub-picture Highlight Layer to that little "Dot." Depending on what you wish to have display, that Vector Mask might not be necessary.

     

    Hope that helps, and good luck,

     

    Hunt

     
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  • greinick
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    6. greinick,
    Jan 28, 2013 12:06 AM   in reply to Bill Hunt
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    Thanks for your posting, but there is the higlight  Layer.

     

    I opend the menue in photoshot once more and enabled the layers.

     

    For me a button has the following different states:

     

    1. Normal, no highlight,just "plain" text. e.g. "English Subtitle". in that state, the Subtitle is NOT selected/enabled.
    2. Mouse Over, the highlight shows up, so you can see where you are with your mouse. e.g. "English Subtitle √"
    3. Mouse left click, the highlight "sticks" to the menue item and when moving the mouse avay it is still highlighted, e.g.  "English Subtitle √"

     

    So I'd liked to indicate which audio track is enabled/selected and if subtitles are off or on.

     

    I thought, the highlight button states are markend with (=1) & (=3) ....

     

    BTW. in encore menue edit mode, if I click the show selected/activated Subpicture Highlight, the right layer shows up (with my √-symbol)

     

    But in preview mode or on a burned dvd this did not work

     

    encore_highlights_OnOff.jpg

     

    Regards . Götz

     
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  • Stan Jones
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    7. Stan Jones,
    Feb 1, 2013 9:18 AM   in reply to greinick
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    Having the currently active language/subtitle tracks indicated is a menu property setting. You set the default button (which will show with the selected state) as "Active Audio Track or Active Subtitle Track":

     

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe8074010 38582db29-7e8ca.html#WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe807401038582db29-7e86a

     

    Also, the =1 vs =2 (and =3), is not "selected" vs "activated" vs normal. In Encore, select a menu, then look at Menu -> Edit Menu Color Set. You will see in Highlight group 1, that #1, 2, and 3 each has a highlighted and activated color. Those 1, 2, 3's correspond to =1, =2 and =3. So when yoiu set layers in PS and make one layer =1 and another =2, you are not setting one to be the selected appearance and another the activated, but you are setting one layer to use #1's selected/activated colors and the other #2's. This isn't usually apparent because most of us are probably letting Encore do all this with "automatic" color sets (based on the colors in PS).

     
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