User Guide

LESSON 7
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Creating Motion Menus
In this lesson, you’ll create a motion menu, which is a menu that contains an animated
background, animated buttons, audio, or a combination of these things. While working
on this project, you will learn how to do the following:
• Tr im a video in the Timeline window.
• Use different methods to move the current-time indicator in the Timeline window.
• Add video to the background of a menu.
• Render and preview motion menus.
• Tr anscode an AVI file from the Project window.
• Create thumbnail buttons.
• Specify poster frames for thumbnail buttons.
• Animate thumbnail buttons.
Getting started
In earlier lessons, you created still menus for DVD projects. A motion menu, which
includes moving footage or audio, can be more interesting for viewers, especially if the
footage or audio provides a hint of what’s to come. The audio may be music, sounds, or
even someone talking while the menu is displayed. You can create buttons that include
thumbnail images of the videos they link to, giving the viewer more information about
each video.
In this lesson, you’ll create an Adobe Encore DVD project that includes motion menus,
using graphic and video files included on the Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book
DVD. Make sure you know the location of the files you need for Lesson 7. For help, see
“Copying the Classroom in a Book files” on page 2.
Viewing the finished Adobe Encore DVD project
To see the motion menus you’ll be creating, take a look at the finished project.
1 Start Adobe Encore DVD.
2 Choose File > Open Project.
3 In the Open dialog box, navigate to the Lesson 07 folder. Select Lesson_07_end.ncor,
and then click Open.
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