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Xara Xtreme Designer Pro 6:
In Xara Xtreme Designer Pro 6, the workflow is similar to creating new texts. When
the menu template is open, you can drag and drop, for example, 2 graphics for
navigation buttons into the ready PSD. Two new layers will appear in the menu
template with two new graphics objects. Drag these into the layer with the Bitmaps to
be replaced. Renaming is unnecessary, since the surrounding layers do this, too.
Localization, scaling and moving on the screen is analogous to Photoshop programs.
Import menu back into MAGIX Video Pro X5
After editing, a PSD file is created, which is imported into MAGIX Video Pro X5 again
and must then be assigned to a menu page as a template.
If access takes place through "Edit externally" see "Export menu" (view page
212), this is done automatically during saving and closing of the graphics
program. Othe
rwise, use the button "Import PSD" to do this.
This imports and converts the PSD (saved to an automatically generated folder in the
folder Content\DVD\Layouts, with TPL files and the generated bitmap files).
Create DVD menus without a template
It is recommended that an existing menu template is adjusted first with a graphics
program. This exercise will help you learn about the functions and structure of a DVD
menu as a PSD file to create menus without using any templates.
You can create PSD files without templates if the following is observed.
• MAGIX Video Pro X5 can only use bitmap layers from the menu PSD file. Text
layers are read as a bitmap (graphic) so that MAGIX Video Pro X5 cannot make
any changes to the text. Layer effects, etc. cannot be read by MAGIX Video Pro
X5. For this reason, all layers featuring additional features in the graphics
program need to be reduced/combined to bitmap level.
• The correct naming of layers is very important! MAGIX Video Pro X5 assigns the
layers and layer groups to the menu items via their names, which makes their
correctness important. The characters added in front (view page 212) of the layer
nam
es should therefore be observed.
A correct menu PSD contains the following elements:
• background
• menu title
• x movie buttons with preview image, frame bitmap, text for menu, text for
numbering, highlight
• one chapter menu button per movie button with bitmap and highlight