Fade in buttons

Question

I have menu created in Motion, which fades in. I want to have the buttons I created in DVDSP fade in later, but I can't figure out how to fade them at all.

Answer 1

Besides that, even if you set your highlight to 100% black, the underline is black, and you line everything up perfectly, there is quite likely to be some kind of visible change when the highlight "takes over". Even ignoring that though, how is the user supposed to know what they are highlighting if the "highlight" is identical in color, shape, etc. to what is underneath it?
Even if you include the underline under the default option, when you move the highlight away there will still be an underline there.
Right like I said usually not worth the hassle. As to what is highlight there are usually two things, one where the highlight is always visible to some degree (such as underline under each button) or the default item is the button with the underline underneath. When jumping back from something to a menu where everything is not all highlighted (lines under each button) and a non-default button you will have to make more menus or make the loop point darn good. As to the highlight issue and confusion it ties into how you make it.
I guess you could make the underline disappear as the last step in the animation before it goes to "still" mode, but really it's a lot of effort for a flawed effect. The video asset is going to vary a bit depending on the TV's color reproduction, and given that the overlay graphics are basically generated within the player (with the subpicture data on the DVD providing shape and color data), there is going to be enough of a difference between the "faded in" fake highlight and the actual highlight to render the effect pointless.
If you time it right (and depedning on the animation content) it may be more or less visible subject to trying to match things. It can get get real close. Some of it is slieght of hand and what people may see. Sort of like if I was able to put down many stil pictures in front of you quickly it would look like they are moving Never said it was perfect.
As with any other effect people try to achieve or wonder if it's possible, I always advise people to look at the menus on a wide variety of commercial DVDs. People are rather accustomed to highlights "popping on" even if there is a lot of smooth fading in the menu itself.
Agreed, same thing applies to many of the things in DVD SP. 99.99% of the things people get jammed up or worry about are not really needed if you look at many real DVDs. But it is kind of fun to mess around with things when there is time to kill.
As I mentioned before, it's POSSIBLE to fade in highlights, subtitles, etc. but I don't think you can do it within DVD Studio Pro, at least in terms of menu highlight.
Right. But you mentioned
With that said though, you won't be able to fade in the highlight if that's what you're asking.
So it was more that if someone was so inclined to have that effect it is sort of possible with the tools right in the Final Cut Studio. No matter how imperfect or a PITN it is to try to nail down.
I think people should stick to basic overlays with simple highlights and link to tracks or stories. Alot easier and most people will not notice or care one way or the other. We have all seen some good movies and bad movies, plus some cooler menus and things along the lines of the game in Madagascar (check it out kind of fun if you have not looked at it), but good menus will be forgotten if the main part of the movie stinks and bad menus (well I guess really bad menus are possible) will not sink good material.
As to games, quizzes etc, yeah kind of fun to play with in DVD SP, but that is why there is Flash, Director and a slew of other things.