3 Qs: how to create the button activated sub menu? & how have text change colours as sub menu? & compression around text problem

[Deleted User]

Hello Justin,

Thanks for your ultra fast reply to my button problem. It seems weird that you are geting white edgiong on your texts. Could you email your Encore project file and I wil open it up on my system and take a look for you?

-Leo 🙂

[Justin Tan]

Np about helping 🙂 always get help on these forums, and am glad i can help others….

I can’t actually send u the proj file because it is for a client… what i am trying to do is something i don’t normally do, but figured i would like to try it…

if u have the time, I would really appreciate it if u tried this…

create a photoshop file and type something with 17 pt font. duplicate that layer and change the colour of the font and ensure that the text are in the exact position…

turn it in to a button and import to encore.. and tell me if the overlay is perfect….

[Deleted User]

Hello Justin,

I am going to re-create this effect now and let you know how it goes. Out of interest where abouts are you based?

I am in London, England

Leo 🙂

[Deleted User]

Hello Justin,

I created a text button in Adobe photoshop CS. I then duplicated my layer changed the colour to green and added the button action.

In Encore when I roll over I can see a white outline on my remote over on the button.

I am not sure why this is only thing I can htink of is if I zoom in Photshop CS and then turn both button states initial and roll over I can see this edging as my intial is white text and button roll over is green.

I think maybe the cours of the pixels are spilling over slightly?

I will see any way around this but it is very odd.

Maybe someone else may know of this problem? On the forums? As this problem has me stumped as well as I can’t really see a work around at the moment. If I think of somehting or find out I will psot back here.

Thanks,

-Leo 🙂

[Justin Tan]

ya i was checking that – and just saw the same thing… ODD….

[Roadkill]

Justin,

A1- I don’t understand the question. A submenu is a menu like any other menu and you can link a button to a timeline or to a menu. What is it that you want to do?

A2- What you are seeing may be caused by the fact that the text in the background is antialiased, which makes it “spread” a little, while the subpicture overlay consists of a single color and therefore can’t be antialiased, making it appear smaller.

A solution could be to put a stroke on the subpicture highlight to make it slightly fatter, or to reduce the opacity of the highlight so that the text in the background shines through a bit (visually blending the difference between the two).

A3- A still menu background on a DVD is a single MPEG-2 I-frame. This is compressed similar to a JPEG still. The artifacting may be a product of this compression. JPEG and MPEG compression doesn’t work well on flat colors. It may help to add a little bit of noise or other structure to the background blue.

[Justin Tan]

thank you so much Roadkill – the reasoning and suggestions for Q2 are great…as with Q3…

regarding Q1 – what i mean is i’m not sure how to structure it….

Could u upload a basic buttonwhich has the button layer, selection submenu and activated submenu in there? – i have read through the text and help and have opened the button files given with encore, all don’t have an activation submenu as far as i can see……

does this make sense?

[Roadkill]

Justin,

I think that instead of “submenu” you mean “subpicture” – the part that takes care of the button highlighting. There is an excellent video tutorial on subpicture creation available at adobeevangelists.com: Adobe Encore DVD (Highlight Colors – The Lowdown on Subpictures).

[Justin Tan]

ack that’s exactly what i meant – sub pic not menu..sorry…. will check that page out