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Design page
Edit: This provides three options for setting the background of a menu page. You may
either set a certain "color value" for the background or you can select an image file
from your hard drive. You may also select a certain frame from a video in your project.
In external editor: A PSD file (view page 206) is sent directly to the program that has
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n selected in the program settings as the menu editor (view page 250).
New menu pages may also be added or irrelevant pages may be removed.
Adds a new menu page.
Removes the selected menu page.
Animated selection menus
Audio-visual animations may also be added to the DVD menus. As required,
background videos are played as endless loops while the menu is shown on the
screen. Add background music in various formats or use any background picture for
each menu.
Sound/music: Load an audio file into the preview monitor and use it as an animation
in the menu background.
Video: Load a video or graphics file into the preview monitor and use it as an
animation in the menu background. In addition to the options for the background
graphic (see above), you may also use a sequence from a loaded slideshow or from a
different video file.
Background video options:
• Create animated menu buttons: The preview images for individual movies in the
movie menu are shown as small movie samples. Set the start point and length of
the animation using the sequence options faders.
• Use video's audio track: The audio track of the background video is used with the
menu.
• Play menu animation as a loop: The background video (audio and/or video) is
played back as a loop.
• Length of the menu view is set by: Audio/video or whichever medium is longer.
You can specify how long the background video should be here. The other
medium will be played as a loop.