DVD Studio Pro Buttons

Is there a way to get rid of the edges on the buttons when they go to the selected and active states? I'm using the right arrow button but when I go to the selected and active state the button has rough edges or it seems that the button is showing the bottom layer? The arrow is gray but when selected i have the color set to black and I get white artifacts showing on the edges.
Any way around this?
Powerbook 17" Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Yes, you can solve it.
The problem is generated because the antialias in the graphic overlay file. To solve it, use the same overlay file (black and white) but change the Color settings to Advanced scheme for your menu buttons. Then choose the highlight color you want (i.e. yellow) to the black, dark and light grey keys, selecting 3 differents opacities. You can start with 15 (for black) , 10 (for dark gray) and 4 (for light gray).
Test your menu and your buttons must look great now. Yu can change the opacities values as you want to get the better result.

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When the user pushes up for the first time you set the navigation to the second up button.
When the user pushes up for the 2nd time you set the navigation to the first down button.
This is why it is useful to have them named something besides button 1.
Make sure you check all of the navigation for each button to ensure the user can't go somewhere you don't want them to. DSP will auto set directions when you create the buttons.
As far as the unveiling part this depends on what it is unveiling. The second down button will go somewhere when the down arrow is pushed. Whether that is a menu, a track, or a chapter marker is up to you.
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Dvd studio pro button problem

Hi, i have created my DVD with a menu, and use an arrow default button for each chapter of the DVD.
I have burned on my DVD and i notice a problem. in the menu, when I push a button, all the buttons disappears before the track start to play...
how to solve that?
thx a lot

Hi Jonathan, welcome to the discussions.
Yes - you certainly can put buttons over video in a track. It works by using the subtitle stream with start and end markers for the button duration. Look up 'Buttons over video' in the manual.
It is easy to set up, but there are reports of mixed levels of reliability with it.
The 1GB allowance in menus can be doubled if you use 4:3 menus AND 16:9 ones... but later versions of DVDSP allow you to move the menus into different spaces which helps avoid the 1GB limit.
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DVD Studio Pro Button Help

I created a video menu for my DVD in Final Cut and have imported it and I've put a button over the word "play" so that when you click on it, it will play the track. That's all worked but in the menu the word "play" fades in after a few seconds and with the color highlight on the button, there are a few seconds of the color button on the screen without the text. Is there any way to make the button show up on the screen when "play" fades in rather than have it show up immediately?

Yup. You need to understand how the 'Loop Point' works.
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DVD Studio Pro-Burn button not working

Hi there. I have video to hand in for class in like 6 hours so i'm in a tight spot here.
I'm running FCP 5 suite on a macbook pro 2.6 ghz intel duo. I've created my DVD just fine in DVD Studio Pro, but as soon as i hit burn, a dialog box comes up immediately saying "formatting successfull" and an "ok" button. Then nothing happens. it doesnt even prompt me for a disc to burn onto.
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Welcome to the Boards
Quick thing as a workaround to start:
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http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
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Button creation Adobe Encore vs. DVD studio pro (mac only)

I'm sitting here, trying to figure out what to do if you want to create a neat button with transparency quickly.
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Am I underskilled? Am I wrong? Please comment
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Actually, Button creation is easy in PS, and one can even populate a Menu with Library Buttons in Encore, and then edit them to suit in PS. This latter method saves having to do the Button Layer Set and Layer naming by hand.
"Solid colors only
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This is a limitation of the DVD-specs. and not Encore/PS. One is bound to those DVD-specs. Sub-picture Highlights can ONLY be 2-bit color (either ON, or OFF, plus can have Transparency - think just the opposite of Opacity in PS). There are design ways to create the "illusion" that one has Sub-picture Highlights, that get past the DVD-specs., but those are only illusions. One is still bound to the DVD-specs. This ARTICLE might offer some tips on creating the illusion.
All the annoying prefixes would be needless, too!
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Jeff Bellune has a great book, The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, Focal Press. Though it was written for an earlier version, 100% of that book still applies, because the DVD-specs. have not changed. He steps one through building custom Buttons in PS for use on a DVD. He also shares a ton of tricks to create illusions within the DVD-specs.
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That's not funny.
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Buttons work in DVD Studio Pro, but not in DVD Player. Why?

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Whats happening?

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Michael, is this where you found your information the first time?
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I can't add buttons at DVD Studio Pro.

The function to create buttons at DVD Studio Pro 4.2.1 is not working.
I already used this function but now it stopped working. I reinstalled Final Cut Studio 2, but nothing changed.
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Here are some steps to take to see if something is wrong with your DVD SP:
1. Launch DVD SP. A new project will open with one menu and one track.
2. Double-click the menu icon in the graphical display at the left of the screen. The menu will open in the Viewer with its default name: "Menu 1" at the top of the viewer. The Active tab at the top of the viewer should be: "Menu". Of course, with no background image the menu will be black.
3. With the mouse pointer over the black menu in the Viewer, press and hold down the mouse button and drag.
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Do you get this on your system?
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DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2 hangs when I go to burn a project

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Deleting render files from the project in the cache
Repairing permissions
rebooting and holding down mouse to get the drawer to open, no luck
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Using a .WMV file in DVD Studio Pro

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Hi
She can't play it on her PC, nor can I at home.
Ussually it's a DVD player software matter. Windows Media Player is not intended for DVD playing. Did you use it when it failed? Try with the free and cross plataform VLC Player.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6020916
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6095226
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374894
EDIT: SOMETHING ELSE
* DVD Authoring/burning tips thread *
Alberto
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