• Adobe Encore DVD

  Animation

  Posted by Miro Simeg on August 2, 2005 at 9:04 am

  Hi,
  is it possible to animate buttons so that the animation start when you move cursor over the button or when you navigate to it with remote?

  Thanks
  Miro

  Tim Kurkoski replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tim Kurkoski

  August 2, 2005 at 4:19 pm

  The answer is mostly no, with a little bit of yes.

  Rollover buttons like this, as you would see on a web page, aren’t really possible within the DVD spec. If something is going to animate, it has to be a part of the menu’s motion background.

  What you can do, however, is create a different menu for each button, animated appropriately. Then set all of the buttons other than the one that’s animating to auto-activate with a link to their menu. That way when the user selects it, the menu for that button will appear. There’s typically a slight pause when the menu loads, but it’s the best you can get.

  This won’t work when playing the DVD in a computer and navigating with the mouse. The auto-activate functionality doesn’t work when using a mouse (it would be quite annoying if it did).

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