• Adobe Encore DVD

  Custom Menu highlight for hidden video

  Posted by Rob Ains on May 10, 2017 at 6:45 am

  Hi All,

  Wondering if some of you nifty guys / gals could assist.
  So far I have created and menu in Encore CS 6 with button for the main video and all works great.

  I have tried to add a behind the scenes video and hide it in a rock (part of the menu image) so the video can be found only when someone accidentally navigates past the final menu option. This is what I would like it to look like:

  

  My current method I created a layer with the just the rock (using Photoshop) and gave it a glow effect to show the selection and gave it the (+2) highlight designation. The effect outer glow is still just an effect which I am now presuming needs to be a solid graphic

  However, this “selected” image on the right shows that it turns out to be a brown blob when selected during the Encore preview with my current method:
  

  Anyone got suggestions on how I can get this working the way I want ?

  Thanks

  Rob Ains replied 9 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Bellune

  May 10, 2017 at 3:43 pm

  One thing you can do for DVD is create a path on a new layer in Photoshop that outlines the rock, stroke it with a light color to some noticeable thickness, then make the stroked path layer the highlight layer. It won’t look like the glow you have in Ps, but it won’t be a brown blob, either.

  Cheers,
  Jeff
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  Rob Ains

  May 12, 2017 at 12:59 pm

  Thank you Jeff,

  Tried it and got the result you suggested.
  Don’t think I will get the glow I was looking for ????

  I am happy.

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