• Adobe Encore DVD

  Taking menus in Encore CS4

  Posted by David Gilhooly on June 11, 2009 at 7:34 am

  I have been asked to make a DVD for the use of Visually Impaired people. I would like the DVD to be as accessable as possible. By that i mean, when a user is going donw the menus the they are spoken.

  My question is, is this possible? To attach an audio file to a menu subject?

  Thanks for any help.

  David

  Joe Bowden replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Joe Bowden

  June 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  In DVD-Video, menus can only have a single audio track – buttons don’t offer any sounds, just highlight layers.

  However, you could make a separate menu for every button, and link each button to its own menu with its own audio track, and use the Auto-Activate button property to switch to the next menu when the button is selected.

  The limitations are linking everything up will be very tedious if you have more than just a few buttons, and if the DVD is played in a software DVD player and the user mouses over a button, it will not go to the linked menu unless the button is actually clicked.

  If you can live with the limitations, this is the way to do it.

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