User Guide

LESSON 7
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Creating Motion Menus
Creating video thumbnail buttons
In addition to naming a button, you can add a thumbnail of the video it links to. The
thumbnail helps viewers identify each video more clearly, and adds interest to your menu.
You can use still thumbnails, which display only a single frame of the video, or animated
thumbnails, which play as much of the video as you specify.
Exploring a menu with thumbnail layers
Just as you can designate Adobe Photoshop layers as buttons and subpictures, you can
also designate layers as thumbnails for use in buttons. The Library palette in Adobe
Encore DVD contains several buttons that include thumbnail layers. Look at the layers in
Photoshop to see how thumbnails are represented.
1 Open Adobe Photoshop. Choose File > Open, and then navigate to the Lesson 07
folder. Open the Cardiac_thumb.psd file.
2 In the Photoshop Layers palette, expand the (+) Stage 1 button layer set.
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