Add button URL over video

Is it possible to place a clickable hyperlink image over a video? Thanks in advance.

Yes. Put the button in state 2 of a multi-state object, setting the MSO to auto-play, no delay, minimal interval, stop at last image. The button will then remain in front of the video while it plays, and it can be tapped to launch the in-app browser.

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I am new to editing video. I am looking to add a replay link and a go to url link once my movie plays through. I am using Flash CS3 pro. If someone could give me specific directions or direct me to a tutorial instructing me how to do this I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
Paul

create two buttons, say urlBtn and replayBtn:
replayBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,replayF);
urlBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,urlF);
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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You could try something like this:
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<s:SparkSkin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
             xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
             xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
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        <s:State name="down" />
        <s:State name="up" />
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              source.over="@Embed('assets/images/lightbulb_lit.png')"
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              source.disabled="@Embed('assets/images/candle.png')" />
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How to add moving shapes over video?

Hi,
I am making a short video that explains how to use some software for my job. I want to make a red rectangle appear around a particular item to highlight it (such as the mouse pointer) and be able to follow the motion of the item. I saw in the Boris documentation there was reference made to vector shapes, but I could not figure out where to create them. How can I create simple shapes that can move around and dynamically change size? Thanks.
Message was edited by: mbmasuda
Sorry, I forgot to say I am using Final Cut Express HD 3.5.

The only way you can do it within FCE is by using motion keyframes. Create the shape in Photoshop, making sure it confirms to your video settings. You may also be able to create the shape within FCE by using a combination of Color (from Video Generators>Matte) and applying Mask Shape to it.
Set the shape on the video track above your clip (ie clip on V1, shape on V2). Click on the shape to open the motion controls in the Canvas (make sure Image + Wireframe is selected in Canvas). Now use the Motion contorl tab in the Viewer or the Motion handles in the Canvas to move the shape, setting Keyframes to animate the motion

Buttons over video, scripting?

Hey Everybody,
I'm working on a DVD that has some fairly specific requirements, some of which are negotiable, others of which are not. It's set up kind of strangely because of the limitations of the source footage, I'll try to describe it:
There are two tracks. Track 1 is an edited version of the source footage. Track 2 contains two angles, a continuous wide shot and a continuous close up. I tried making one track with three angles, but since Track 1 doesn't precisely sync up with Track 2, that didn't work.
When I took over this project, it was decided that the best way to work around the limitations of the footage would be to space chapter markers every thirty seconds in each track, so that the user can go from, for instance, Chapter 4 Track 2 to Chapter 4 Track 1 by pressing the enter key on the remote. Cumbersome but acceptable.
What I'm trying to do is set up buttons over video that can go from Track 1 to -either- angle of track 2, and I'm having a problem doing that. I tried just setting targets for the buttons, but I can't set the track, chapter and angle. So I tried a simple script (I'm very new at scripting) that looks like this:
1 mov GPRM 0, SPRM 7
2 sub GPRM 0, 1
3 add GPRM 0, 49280
4 Jump Indirect GPRM 0
5 Set System Stream An(2)
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I figured out the problem so I'll wrap up the thread in case someone else runs into this problem...
I was using dvdSP's ability to "offset" the overlay file in order to make my highlights match up perfectly. For some reason if the offset differs from one overlay to the next in the same subtitle stream, it causes apple dvd player to crash.
example:
(all motion menus were created on one track with BOV & then separated into stories for easy targeting)
subtile(BOV) 1 had an overlay file offset to 0x & -4y & subtitle(BOV)2, my second menu, had an overlay file offset to 3x & -1y.
The first one would play fine, but as soon as apple dvd player detected the next subtitle it would crash. I solved the problem by editing my overlay files in photoshop to compensate for the offsets & leaving the offset in DVDSP untouched. weird... but it works now.

Selected/activated button overlay in Buttons over Video

I have six different buttons over video, with one overlay.
The buttons are assigned to each of six audio tracks.
When I select and activate a button the overlay goes from white to red, and the audio changes to the specified audio track. So far, so good. But, when I want to select another button, the red overlay disappears, and I see the selected buttons white overlay. This is of course "default", but I'd like the red overlay to stay, indicating that I'm still listening to that audio track, even if I'm choosing between another button.
Can this be done somehow? I'm thinking that perhaps I can add a subtitle that tells me what Track I have selected, but the overlay is already a subtitle...
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Only one button can be "selected" at a time, meaning when people scroll through the selections on the menu there is an indication of where they are/what they are about to press when they hit enter.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4573106&#4573106, take a look at the last post for a way to try to get the effect sort of happening
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Buttons Over Video In A Menu?

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I created a 40-second motion menu (Menu 1 in the scheme of things) with a music track. I will put "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection" buttons in this menu, but I want to them to appear about 15 seconds after the menu starts playing. Is there a way to do this? I know you can put buttons over video for the main video track at any time, but how about a looping menu?
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Buttons over video

Hello all,
I am trying to create a DVD of several presentations. Each presentation will have it's own picture in picture video track. The large box will contain the presenters slides that change at the right moment. The small box will contain a head and shoulders shot of the presenter speaking. My client want's on-screen buttons to allow viewers to skip to the next or previous slide in the track.
I have made my picture in picture video track with a chapter marker at the start of every slide in FCP and imported it into DSP. Now I am attempting to make my buttons over video to allow the skipping....but I've come across two problems:
1. After creating a subtitle track with a button, the button does not appear in the simulator regardless of wether I use the text or overlay method as descibed in the on screen help.
2. To create the subtitle track I have placed button highlight markers at the beginning and end of the track but when I hit project-timeline-add subtitle at playhead the subtitle only stretches as far as the first FCP chapter marker and won't extend beyond that. I assume I need the chapter markers to give the 'skip' buttons something to aim at and I installed them in FCP because FCP is much more accurate than DSP at doing this.
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How to add record voice over for a video file

I have a video file (wmv) already prepared, and all I would like to now do is record a voice over for this file using Soundbooth CS4. My hunch is that I need to import the video into a multi-track file, and then I expect I'll export the multitrack file back to the WMV when I'm done. The problem is that when I hit the record button, I'm expecting to see the video playing but I don't.
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I had the same issue.
I had a youtube downloader app that had a plug-in installed on my Home Safari. I deleted that app. and the plugin. Not sure if that was the culprit, but I figured I'd try.Thought maybe some bug crossed over when syncing the two safaris.
Anyway, I ended up unlinking my Mobile Safari to my Home Safari (iPad; iCloud/Safari/OFF)
A prompt will come up asking what you want to do with previously synced data: Delete from My iPad (don't worry, you'll get it back)
Your bookmarks should disappear.
Reset HOME Safari : Safari/Reset Safari (everything checkmarked)
Turn ON the Mobile Safari again (if you want to relink to the Home version) or keep off (and rebuild it from scratch on iPad alone)
Personally, I turned it on, got my bookmarks back then turned it off and pressed Keep on my iPad.
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I am making a graduation video for my cousin using Final Cut Pro. I have photos layered over videos, and I was wanted to find out how you can add a border around the photos so they stand off of the video. Anyone know what I could do?

I am making a graduation video for my cousin using Final Cut Pro. I have photos layered over videos, and I was wanted to find out how you can add a border around the photos so they stand off of the video. Anyone know what I could do?

You would need an image editor to edit the images and add a border to the image first before importing them into Final Cut.
Cheapest and very good image editor?
PIxelmator.
Located in the Mac App Store. $14.99 USD.
Here is the Pixelmator website to give you an overview of the app.
http://www.pixelmator.com/
Good Luck!

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Buttons over video is crashing Apple DVD player!

I have 4 menus (tracks) that use buttons over video. The first one plays just fine- the buttons come up after a second & disappear 30 seconds later(then the menu continues into a film). The other 3 menus crash 1-2 seconds before the buttons over video forces the subtitle to become visible. here's what i've done to troubleshoot:
-set a different menu to be first play
-swapped out the m2v/ac3 files to see if that was causing the issue
-moved my menus/tracks to different VTSs (using dvdsp 4)
-shifted the hi-lite markers forward and back to various times
-swapped out the overlay file
All my tracks were created exactly the same- using the same BOV structure (13 buttons in all)... I'm completely baffled. One works fine and the rest don't work at all!!
p.s. i burned the disc and tested it on a regular dvd player.. seems to work fine, but it still crashes on the computer.
PowermacG4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) DVD Studio Pro 4

I figured out the problem so I'll wrap up the thread in case someone else runs into this problem...
I was using dvdSP's ability to "offset" the overlay file in order to make my highlights match up perfectly. For some reason if the offset differs from one overlay to the next in the same subtitle stream, it causes apple dvd player to crash.
example:
(all motion menus were created on one track with BOV & then separated into stories for easy targeting)
subtile(BOV) 1 had an overlay file offset to 0x & -4y & subtitle(BOV)2, my second menu, had an overlay file offset to 3x & -1y.
The first one would play fine, but as soon as apple dvd player detected the next subtitle it would crash. I solved the problem by editing my overlay files in photoshop to compensate for the offsets & leaving the offset in DVDSP untouched. weird... but it works now.

'Resume' function (buttons over video / white rabbit)

The resume function takes me back to the last chapter marker passed in the track I was viewing previously. Is it supposed to work like that? I thought it would take me bak to the last moment viewed (give or take several frames).
I've got a video track, I use buttons over video to jump to a menu with video background. When the menu times out I run a script that just states 'resume', but it will only go to the last chapter marker passed. Some of my white rabbit videos are several minutes long so that's not very helpful.
From what I understand you can only resume from a menu?
I've had another look at The Matrix and note that after a white rabbit it always returns to exactly the same point in the main movie as though there were a chapter marker there... but no chapter marker exists at those points so what did the authors of the Matrix DVD use to target that return point?
Any clues anyone? Thanks

Thanks Trai - I'll try that approach.
After trying all sorts of combinations to get 'resume' working, all I can imagine is it's not properly implimented in DVDSP or it's not properly supported by players.
A button on a menu with a target or 'resume' should according to the DVDSP manuals return to the point the user was at in a track when the menu was launched (see quote below).
I've tested on 3 hardware players as well as a PC player and Apple's own DVD player. Only a sony DVD recorder resumed to the correct place in the video track. The only other possibility I can imagine is that the buttons over video are in some way causing the problem when resuming? I noticed when the sony did resume to the correct point the subtitle stream being used for the buttons over video was no longer visible (even though a prescript on the track was forcing them to show)
<quote from DVDSP3 and 4 manual>
About Resume
If you jump to a menu while watching a track, for example, by pressing the remote control’s Menu button, the DVD player remembers what track you were playing and how far you were into it. A mostly unknown feature of DVD players is that you can press the Menu button while in a menu to resume playing the track at the same place you jumped from. Creating a button on the menu and setting its Target to Resume provides the viewer with a more obvious way to resume playing the track.
</end quote>

Can't get Button Over Video button graphics to appear using Subtitle Clips

I have a video in a track in DVD SP 3. In S1 of the track I have, near the beginning, a Subtitle Clip about 2 secs. long with text which describes the scene. No problem. Near the end of the track I have another Subtitle Clip in S1 but this time, instead of showing text it shows a button graphic of two little arrows for Buttons Over Video (which when activated make the DVD go back or forward). The graphic is in the form of a standard tif Overlay file as used for Simple Overlays for a menu - a white background with the arrows in red with a black border, all as in the manual. The arrows have two Buttons created over them.
The two little arrows do not show in the Simulator nor in the Mac's DVD Player when the project is Built, nor do they appear in either of my two stand-alone DVD players when the project is burned, but they do show in DVS SP's Viewer window when I move the playhead over the Subtitle Clip in the track. The buttons themselves work. I know this because one is designated the default and when the two arrows should appear, pressing the (physical) remote on my DVD players causes the designed action, and this happens even if I press the remote's left arrow to select the left button and then press Enter. No relevant error messages during Building.
I have moved the Subtitle Clip (the one showing the arrows) down to S2 in case it is not possible to have two Subtitle Clips in S1, but no change. Also, I have added a large blob in the middle of the Subclip Overlay file to see whether the Overlay file got displaced, out of the image area, but the blob appears in its correct position.
What can I do please?
G5/2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GB RAM, 150 GB HD, Sony DCR-HC96 mini DV, FCE HD 3.0 DVD SP 3

After vast effort I have concluded that a graphic in a Subtitle does not work, despite the manual and two other fat books saying it does (although, interestingly, all of them discuss it only very briefly). I have had to use text ("<-") to indicate my back button - not elegant.
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