Button background image - deleting

Hi again. I'm sorry to fill the list with more questions, but it seems this list is the only place I get any answers. I have to say iDVD 6 is about the most counter-intuitive program I've dealt with in a while. Anyway...
I wanted a DVD without little movies in the scene selection buttons and instead of trying to track down how to delete the little movie, I just put photos into each one. (I don't know what happened to the movie within, but I think they are still there somehow, because when I highlighted them they each had a little movie window with a bar of some sort. I didn't bother to research what that meant.) Now I'm making some changes to the DVD and I want to take the photos out of those little buttons. I can't figure out how to do it. It either deletes the whole button or it gets rid of the background image for that page of scene selections.
Ah ha. I just figured out how to get rid of the movie completely. But I still would like to know how to get rid of the photo I dragged on top of the movie, if you happen to know.
Thank you.
yvonne

Hello Yvonne,
what you get in the scene selection menu is a button for each chapter you have created within iMovie.
You could simply delete that movie from the main menu - if this doesn't automatically delete the submenu, do that manually - then re-import your iMovie. Make sure the option "Automatically create chapter sub menu" is selected in iDVD Preferences.
There might be a simpler way to do this .... sorry, but I don't usually work with chapters
hope this helps
mish

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Hello everyone a few questions, i created a background image like the one i added into the post since the program im making have 3 steps i would like to put each step into one of the boxes of the background image and i want them to stay in that area always!
I have set a max workarea that fits the background however if i maximize the window all the graph and bolean and what not moves im pretty sure its (or well i hope) a simple fix i just cant get them to stay where i put them lock them down so to speak hope you understand what im trying to say thanks

It sounds like you have turned autoscaling on the front panel on. Open the VI properties (File>>VI Properties) and select the Window Size tab. I suspect the Scale all objects on front panel as the window resizes checkbox is checked. Uncheck it (it is not checked by default). It if is already unchecked, then you probably need to use VI server to actively set positions on your front panel when the VI resizes. All front panel objects can be moved around on the front panel using VI server properties (Position). Trigger the action using the Panel Resize event in an event structure.
If you have a lot of objects, using VI server to move things around can get very tedious. An alternate approach is to break your front panel into panes using splitter bars (which you can hide by making them transparent). But your individual groups.
There is an enormous amount of information on how to handle resizing front panels in these forums. Do a little digging and you will find a lot.
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How can I use a refrence background image ?

HI,
I need to register align horizontally and vertically) about 100 images to the first. I don't want to stack or merge them. An ideal way to accomplish this would be to be able to set the first image as a background reference image for all images in the group. There would be left/right buttons so I could advance through the stack, a slider to adjust the visibility of the foreground image, and up/down & right/left arrows so I could move the upper image a pixel at a time in any direction. In this case I don't need to rotate the image, but this would also be something a person might want to control. Then I would move through the group of images, stopping on each one to align the image to the first. One at a time, or after I am done, it would save all the aligned images to a new filename and folder, without changing the transparency of the image or in any way using the background reference image. Without rotating the images, every pixel in the new image would be the same as in the original, except moved. I would start by resizing the canvas of all the images so they have a border area. This way I can move the image around and not lose any of it.
Of course I could put the reference image in the background layer and the image to be adjusted above it on another layer. Then i can use the background as a reference by making the upper image somewhat transparent. Finially I could delete the background layer and save the image with just the adjusted layer. But this would be tedius with 100 images, even worse if there were 1000..
Is there a reference background image capability in Photoshop CC ? Is there a better or different way to do this ? Or can Bridge do it ?

Perhaps I need to explain my specific application. I have 120 images that are part of a time lapse sequence. The camera is photographing a meteor shower. I was able to capture a meteor which left a persistent trail that lasted about 5 minutes. Because the camera is on a tripod, the stars are constantly moving and in fact moved quite a bit during the 5 minutes the trail was visible. These images are of much higher resulution than the 1080 video I am producing. I have used premier to track the spot in the images and show the meteor and trail as a video close up that runs at about 15% speed. because the exposures were 30 seconds ;long, every 33 seconds, the sky has visibly moved from image to image. because I use only a few keyframes Premier tracks the spot smoothly. But since the pictures are each moved, not moving, the stars in the final video move back and forth with each image. they never go anywhere, but this movement is distracting and annoying. Theoretically I could eliminate this movement by having a different key for each frame. But the better way is to prepare the images so they are all aligned. Then there will be no movement at all.
You have seen this effect in documentaries. Here's a hypothetical situation. Someone has handheld video of an important event happening. because of the situation and the handheld camera, the picture moves around like crazy. To be able to view the event clearly as part of an investigation, each frame is aligned to the first so the subject doesn't move at all, while the image frame moves all around. I have seen this many times. Now I need to do it.
I have 120 pictures which all must be aligned so the stars in the picture do not move. i need to see a refrence image through the image to be adjusted, so I can move the image to be adjusted until its stars are perfectly aligned with stars in the refrence image. Of course this is like stacking, which is used to reduce noise and increase detail. but I don't want to stack the images, just adjust them horizontally and vertically, and then save them in their adjusted state.

How can I have a background image for reference ?

HI,
I need to register align horizontally and vertically) about 100 images to the first. I don't want to stack or merge them. An ideal way to accomplish this would be to be able to set the first image as a background reference image for all images in the group. There would be left/right buttons so I could advance through the stack, a slider to adjust the visibility of the foreground image, and up/down & right/left arrows so I could move the upper image a pixel at a time in any direction. In this case I don't need to rotate the image, but this would also be something a person might want to control. Then I would move through the group of images, stopping on each one to align the image to the first. One at a time, or after I am done, it would save all the aligned images to a new filename and folder, without changing the transparency of the image or in any way using the background reference image. Without rotating the images, every pixel in the new image would be the same as in the original, except moved. I would start by resizing the canvas of all the images so they have a border area. This way I can move the image around and not lose any of it.
Of course I could put the reference image in the background layer and the image to be adjusted above it on another layer. Then i can use the background as a reference by making the upper image somewhat transparent. Finially I could delete the background layer and save the image with just the adjusted layer. But this would be tedius with 100 images, even worse if there were 1000..
Is there a reference background image capability in Photoshop CC ? Is there a better or different way to do this ? Or can Bridge do it ?

When I first posted this I had selected Photoshop as the community. After it had posted I saw it had changed and again changed it back to Photoshop. it again reset it to Premier Pro. I don't know why. Also, I had selected Refrence image as a tag and that keeps dissappearing. Even worse, there are no replies. What's the deal ?

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