User Guide

ADOBE ENCORE DVD 2.0
User Guide
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Automatic color set
When you import a menu into your project, Adobe Encore DVD looks at the colors and opacity settings in the
subpicturelayersandautomaticallygeneratesacolorsetbasedonthosevalues.TheAutomaticcolorsetisdifferent
from other color sets in two ways. First, it updates automatically anytime you edit a menu in Photoshop (using the
Edit Menu In Photoshop command). Second, it cannot be edited directly. You can, however, use it to create a new
color set, but the new color set will not dynamically update to reflect changes you make in Photoshop.
To create the Automatic color set, Adobe Encore DVD reads the color and opacity settings in each subpicture layer
in the menu, starting at the bottommost button (the button listed closest to the Background in the Layers panel),
moving up:
• Highlight group one is assigned the values from the bottommost button. Specifically, the layer with the prefix (=1)
sets the values for color 1; layers with prefixes (=2) and (=3) set the values for color 2 and color 3. The Selected
and Activated states are set to the same values.
• Highlight group two is assigned the color values from the first button containing subpicture color values that are
different than the bottommost button. The Selected and Activated states are set to the same values.
• Normal group is set to 0% opacity (fully transparent), but uses the color values of the default color set.
Upon import, Adobe Encore DVD not only generates the automatic color set, it also applies the appropriate highlight
group to each button. If the subpicture colors in a button do not match either of the two highlight groups, Adobe
Encore DVD assigns Highlight Group 1 to them.
To base a new color set on the Automatic color set
The Automatic color set of each menu is automatically generated from the menu’s subpicture layers. If you want to
create an independent copy of a particular menu’s Automatic color set, create a new color set based on the menu’s
Automatic color set. This new set behaves like the regular color set, and can be assigned to other menus.
1 Select the menu containing the Automatic color set you want to copy in the Project or Menus panel.
2 Choose Menu > Edit Menu Color Set.
3 Click the New Color Set button , type a new name, and click OK.
4 Adjust the colors and opacity settings as needed. (See “Menu Color Set options” on page 126.)
5 ClickOKwhenyouhavedefinedallthecolorstoyoursatisfaction.AdobeEncoreDVDappliesthenewcolorsto
the menu.
Assigning color sets and highlight groups
To each menu, you can apply one color set. To each button within the menu, you can apply one highlight group. You
use the Properties panel to change a menu’s color set or to change the highlight group assigned to its buttons. By
selectingmultiplemenusorbuttonsintheMenuspanel,youcanchangethecolorsetofseveralmenusatonceorthe
highlight group of the buttons.
To change the color set of menus
1
In the Menus panel, select the menu that you want to change. (Ctrl or Shift-click to select additional menus.)
2 In the Properties panel, select the desired color set from the Color Set pop-up menu at the bottom of the panel.
Adobe Encore DVD assigns the selected color set to the menu, changing the colors used for the subpictures of its
buttons.