Creating Buttons and Loop Points in Motion Menu

[David Garrett]

take your pic from here…(https://www.doogs-tutorials.com/)

Regards
Doogs

[Jo Hamm15]

Ok… I looked at the tutorial, and had a chance to look at the program last night… so I see I can’t import a video file as a menu, so it looks like I have to import my button overlay file as the menu, and link the video as the background… but I see that there are no loop points where I can tell it to start… so if I have a video file with the name of the buttons on it, and a button overlay file with a symbol as a selector, what’s the easiest way to get the button selectors to pop up when the button names appear on the video file?

[Joe Bowden]

The paradigm is different.

Encore menus are PSD files. To make it a motion menu, alt-drag a video file into the menu. Loop Point timecode can be set in Menu properties.

[Jo Hamm15]

Thanks, that makes things a little clearer… the way I had it set up for DVD Studio Pro was I had the motion menu, which has the words animated (they fade in at about 30 seconds into the clip) and then I made symbols in a PSD document to act as my selectors, and then the buttons pop up at the loop point. All three are on the same layer… so it sounds like I have to slice them up into three different layers and import that file as a menu, then drag my video clip straight onto the menu viewer and set it as a background somehow, and then draw my buttons over the photoshop layers, and then set the loop point in the menu properties… is there anything I’m missing or not getting right?

[Joe Bowden]

Selectors are button highlights in Encore, and are indicated with subpicture layers. Check Encore Help for how to create these layers in Photoshop. Buttons are also created in Photoshop (subpicture layers are within them)…again, check the Help.

Then you alt-drag your video clip onto the menu in the Menu editor in Photoshop, and set the Loop Point in the Menu properties.