Motion Menu Question
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Chris0709
Motion Menu Question
I have an mpeg file that I am using as a motion menu background. I want to have buttons on that menu that link to video files. However, I want the background menu to play up to a certain point before the menu buttons appear. Is this possible to do?
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the britisher
Loop Point
Hi Chris0709
Yes is the answer. you need to specify a loop point in your menu. for example: if you have a 20 second menu and you wanted your buttons to come in after 5 seconds. You would set your menu duration to 20 seconds and the loop point to 5 seconds.
Your menu will now play for 5 seconds then your buttons would appear then your menu would continue to play for 15 seconds and then play again - "loop" from 5 seconds again. You can also set a loop count or make it infinite (until a viewer makes a menu choice)
Note: be careful, there's a bug in the software that makes motion menu durations round to the nearest second, ie. if your motion menu mpeg was 20 seconds and 8 frames DVD workshop would truncate this to 20 seconds upon save and open. So best to make your motion menus an exact number of seconds long (until they fix this, if ever).
Hope this helps.
Regards
the britisher
Yes is the answer. you need to specify a loop point in your menu. for example: if you have a 20 second menu and you wanted your buttons to come in after 5 seconds. You would set your menu duration to 20 seconds and the loop point to 5 seconds.
Your menu will now play for 5 seconds then your buttons would appear then your menu would continue to play for 15 seconds and then play again - "loop" from 5 seconds again. You can also set a loop count or make it infinite (until a viewer makes a menu choice)
Note: be careful, there's a bug in the software that makes motion menu durations round to the nearest second, ie. if your motion menu mpeg was 20 seconds and 8 frames DVD workshop would truncate this to 20 seconds upon save and open. So best to make your motion menus an exact number of seconds long (until they fix this, if ever).
Hope this helps.
Regards
the britisher
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the britisher
Oops
Sorry Chris0709
I meant to point out that the buttons and text will appear at the same time that your menu starts however, will not be operable until the loop count you specify has been reached.
You could get round this with invisible buttons and highlight images but the visual options are limited.
Regards
the britisher
I meant to point out that the buttons and text will appear at the same time that your menu starts however, will not be operable until the loop count you specify has been reached.
You could get round this with invisible buttons and highlight images but the visual options are limited.
Regards
the britisher
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An alternative way is to have two video clips.
The first one is a "first play"
The second one is the actual moving background for you menu.
If however you wanted a completely different first play menu, you have a further two options.
1. Merge 'Your' first play video and the one you wish to be the start of the menu and do the above.
2. Have 2 menu pages. The first one is blank containing just the pre-button video. On this place an invisible button that auto-activates after your desired period of time. That button in turn is linked to the second menu which has your moving background complete with buttons.
Whichever method works best is down to trial and error to see which gives you the smoothest looking results.
The first one is a "first play"
The second one is the actual moving background for you menu.
If however you wanted a completely different first play menu, you have a further two options.
1. Merge 'Your' first play video and the one you wish to be the start of the menu and do the above.
2. Have 2 menu pages. The first one is blank containing just the pre-button video. On this place an invisible button that auto-activates after your desired period of time. That button in turn is linked to the second menu which has your moving background complete with buttons.
Whichever method works best is down to trial and error to see which gives you the smoothest looking results.