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1. Re: Menu Buttons and highlights
Stan Jones Feb 23, 2011 12:49 PM (in response to steveprc)I don't know if I've exceed the allowable parameters
Probably that: limited to 2 bit indexed color. You can get some of your effects by putting them in the background layer, but others require faking the DVD specs by having an autoselect take you to another identical menu, that has the appearance you want as part of the background layer.just pushed my luck using Illustrator.
I don't recall anyone trying that. No reason you can't, but I would take one of the psd menus in Encore, edit in photoshop, and make changes there till you sort out what works and what doesn't.
If you've found the help files that deal with making menus in photoshop and after effects, it has most of the plain mechanics.
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2. Re: Menu Buttons and highlights
SupersoulVP Feb 23, 2011 1:25 PM (in response to steveprc)Hey Steve. You may want to avoid using (=1) to signify a highlight layer. I learned the hard way that using that can cause a percentage of dvd players to not see the highlight layer. I now always use (=3) for all my dvd and blu-ray projects and have had no more problems.
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3. Re: Menu Buttons and highlights
Stan Jones Feb 23, 2011 4:10 PM (in response to SupersoulVP)Wasn't the =3 only an issue for some Macs?
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4. Re: Menu Buttons and highlights
Bill Hunt Feb 23, 2011 5:02 PM (in response to steveprc)Along with Stanley's suggestion of the dupe Menus with graphics (a good one, BTW, and one that I use often), you might want to see this ARTICLE. While you cannot break the DVD laws, you can fool your viewer into thinking that you have done so.
Good luck,
Hunt
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5. Re: Menu Buttons and highlights
SupersoulVP Feb 24, 2011 8:20 AM (in response to Stan Jones)Stan.
The disc I was referring to was made on a Mac, but I can't say if it is an authoring problem that only exists on Macs. The dvd's highlights worked perfectly fine on a PS3, on a computer, and on a very new dvd player. The highlights did NOT show up on a 5 year old (ish) Pioneer dvd recorder or on the $30 super low grade Colby dvd player we keep around for checking discs.
Trying to get things done in the end, I didn't spot this error 'till I had already made the DDP files and I was just making a reference DVD-R to accompany them. After finding the solution here in the forums, I changed all the highlights to be =3, and have not had that problem since.
It has to be some kind of random anomaly though, otherwise basically everyone would have this problem...




