Menu Button Overlays

This is driving me buggy:
I've created a menu in Motion with a white background and 3 purple circles in front of the selection options: Play, Highlights, and Index.
I've created an overlay file in Photoshop, and after much trial and error I've managed to get the black circles in the .psd file to line up with the purple indicators. Now maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I thought that the circles in the .psd file would hide the corresponding purple circles in the Motion menu unless the button was selected. Instead, the opposite is happening. There are always two purple circles visible, and a light gray circle appears over the purple circle of the selected button! Why light gray, anyway? Shouldn't it be invisible? (White) (This is happening, by the way, with a single layer .psd file. I tried with each black circle on it's own layer, and that does it's own weird thing.)
I'm just really at a loss here. It seems like what I'm trying to do should be simple. I want a purple circle to appear next to each menu option when it's highlighted. When they're not highlighted, I want the plain white background. The text of the buttons, Play, Highlight and Index, are animated, so they need to stay in the Motion menu. Do I need to somehow create the purple circles in DVDSP?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

The circle is not "vector" so I think the grey is due to the fact that you have some interpolation (if that is the correct term) with regard to how the circle is done in psd.
Test. Switch to a pure box. I had this problem in a psd overlay file a few months back. client wanted ovals but the artifact was obvious. switch to square and all was well.

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Controlling menu button overlay?

I made a title menu video clip in Motion, with all the text including chapter headings.
I imported it into Studio Pro. I added buttons overtop the text in the video clip. I linked the buttons to the chapters. Everything works.
I added an overlay to the buttons ... mainly for the DVD Players, so the viewer can SEE his\her selections with the remote.
My video clip starts in black, the chapter text headings take 8 seconds to appear. My 'normal' not-yet-selected overlay mode actually shows up as a coloured rectangle (the same colour as the 'selected' mode) where the first button is placed. The text appears later, in the rectangle. So I have a not-wanted colour rectangle in the frame for 8 seconds.
Is there a way:
1. I can have the button overlay rectangle appear later in the menu video clip timeline - when the actual text arrives?
Or...
2. I can somehow have the 'normal' mode in play (as a non-colour, neutral or transparent nothing), until the mouse, or the controller actually 'selects' the chapter text (in the button)? At which point the coloured 'selected' rectangle would appear.
All ears,
Ben

Is there a way:
1. I can have the button overlay rectangle appear
later in the menu video clip timeline - when the
actual text arrives?
Straight through DVD SP, nope (unless I missed something, have not tried all the tricks in DVD SP 4) but you can do it either by (a) some some other editing software like dvdafteredit (thought I saw an article on this once) or (b) some tricks [but the easier way is below in settings :)]
i.) have the clip cut and put the menus next to one another and have it auto jump to the next menu (though you will probably see the jump on most players)
2.) Build subtitles/buttons on a movie track and make that work as a menu
2. I can somehow have the 'normal' mode in play (as
a non-colour, neutral or transparent nothing), until
the mouse, or the controller actually 'selects' the
chapter text (in the button)? At which point the
coloured 'selected' rectangle would appear.
The easiest way will be have the buttons all non-highlighted unless selected (change settings so you do not see the rectangle) .. the only issue is that one button by default is always selected, so you can make an invisible button, and then people will have to press to get to the next buttons, but then they can move around by setting the up down left right buttons not to ever move to the invisible button

Menu buttons dont work until menu itself loops

i have a button on the menu, and connects to a video track. when i simulate the project, the button works fine, but when i try a burned dvd in a set top player, the button won't work until the menu itself has reached the end and starts over again.....???

You can control the moment when the buttons overlay appears (activation) changing the Loop Point time. You have 3 time settings in the Inspector for your motion menu: Start, Loop and End points. With these settings you can manage how to play the background movie in your menu.
To make your buttons activate inmediatly when the motion menu starts, you must set the same time setting in Start and Loop points. Let me know you current settings for these three points if you found problems.
From DVDSP Manual
Loop Point
You can use the Loop Point setting to set a frame different from the starting frame to use when you choose Loop as the At End setting. By default, the Loop setting is the same as the Start setting. When you adjust the Loop setting, you are choosing the frame that is jumped to once the end frame is reached. This allows you to have a looping background with a beginning section—for example, a fade up from black or a transition from another menu—that only plays the first time through. If there is audio assigned to the menu, it automatically follows the video as it loops.
This setting also defines when the button highlights appear—the viewer cannot navigate the menu’s buttons until the loop point is reached. Additionally, the Loop Point setting controls the video used for the menu’s tile in the Graphical tab.
Alberto

Navigation won't work on menu buttons

Hi
I created a menu with apple template-light index in DVDSP 2.05 and added (dragged) motion assets (each chapters video clip) to the buttons. I used overlay colors=advanced and mapping type=grayscale for the norma-selected-activated states of the buttons. My problem is the navigation arrows won't work to cycle thru the menu buttons (chapters) when I use simulator. i checked the assignments & everything seems ok..even used autoassign now, no luck. When I created another menu with apple template-light index with no assets dragged to the buttons, the navigation arrows worked fine in simulator. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I figured out the problem, so all is good.

Button overlays on motion menus question

I've made up a motion menu in which the buttons move from off-screen and into position. However, before they get there the button overlay is already highlighted. I've seen menus like this where the button overlay only appears when the buttons come into their final resting place. Can anybody advise how to do this?

Not sure how you made the overlays or where you set the loop point.
If you make the overlays in Photoshop or Motion and set the loop point to the final resting place, then it should work.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/motion.php

Button overlay challenges

Hello
I have a 2 defined buttons that are about 3/4x1 inch. I did a picture in adobe cs and saved as a pct, even saved it to a very small size, like .5x.25. I import it as a asset in DVSP, I drag to the menu and say overlay, it shows up in the menu as overlay set and when I select the button I see some of the picture. If I select the outer edge of the button and enlarge, I see my picture, it appears its coming in at as 720x480 size.
It there a scale down or import size setting I am not doing
thanks

You sound as if you are making a small image to be the button highlight image each time.... what you need to do is create a single image at the right dimensions which has got ALL of the highlight shapes for all of your buttons in one file.
For example, imagine that you have got a background image with three buttons on it, and you want three underlines as your highlights in your overlay. You create a single file at 720x480 or 720x576 (NTSC or PAL) and you make sure that it only has three horizontal lines in black (or gray) which will line up with the correct place on the background. You export this as a .pict file and import it to DVDSP.
When you draw the button rectangles in DVDSP you cover the underline as you go - it should take on the colours specified in the property inspector - you can edit these colours and make the underline be whatever colour you wish.
When you have got the hang of this, you could try using four colour overlay shapes and use the colour mapping in DVDSP to get better visual effects. An overlay cannot have more than four colours in it, as they actually become part of the sub picture stream on he finished disc, and the stream can only support four colours.

Simple buttons overlaying movie button

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I'm trying to create a menu using movie clips of sliding
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like to overlay simple submenu item buttons.
My work-in-progress
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I don't see any rollover effect on anything except the images
that display aunder the menu buttons. If the movie loads over them,
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You may have to explain the problem a little better,because
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MAC Leopard - Check Project - Button Overlay and Orphans

Where is the semantic web!!! I could't find in the morass here if anyone answered the following...
I try a CHECK PROJECT...if I check Button Overlay...the APPLE BEACHBALL OF DEATH appears and I am blown out of the program. I have 5 buttons and I swear to whomever they don't overlap! So that one is a mystery.
IF I check Orphans I get two items that appear (in my case 2 menu orphans)...if I double click on either I am blown out of the program. I see nothing in the project resources for these. I have but ONE menu. BTW, if I click on the FLOWCHART
I am adding the crash report below...just in case it is of value.
Process: Adobe Encore [17222]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Encore CS3/Adobe Encore CS3.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Encore
Identifier: com.adobe.Encore
Version: ??? (3.0.2)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [170]
Date/Time: 2008-01-27 18:24:16.848 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.adobe.Encore 0x0039cfe8 GUOM::Menu::GetThumbnail(XpImage&, double, bool) + 40
1 com.adobe.Encore 0x00073546 ThumbnailCache::UpdateThumbnails(GUOM::Target**) + 130
2 com.adobe.Encore 0x0007b957 FlowChart::PseudoDoc::IdleTimeUpdateThumbnails() + 39
3 com.adobe.Encore 0x0006de0e FlowChartOverlay::DoTimerEvent(unsigned int) + 48
4 com.adobe.exo.framework 0x019e065d exo::trackview::TrackView::TimerEvent(unsigned int) + 65
5 com.adobe.exo.framework 0x019ddbb5 exo::trackview::DVAPlatformView::UI_DoTimerNotify(int) + 35
6 dvaui 0x022b0bd9 dvaui::ui::UI_Node::UI_DispatchPossibleTimer(dvaui::ui::UI_NodeTimerData*) + 365
7 dvaui 0x022aba12 dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData::CallDispatchPossibleTimer(dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData*, dvaui::ui::UI_NodeTimerData*) + 28
8 dvaui 0x0233e76f boost::_bi::bind_t<int, int (*)(dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData*, dvaui::ui::UI_NodeTimerData*), boost::_bi::list2<boost::_bi::value<dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData*>, boost::_bi::value<dvaui::ui::UI_NodeTimerData*> > >::operator()() + 43
9 com.adobe.Encore 0x00657d6b boost::function0<int, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >::operator()() const + 75
10 com.adobe.Encore 0x00009508 dva::encore::DroverErrorManager::ExecuteFunctionWithTopLevelExceptionHandler(boost::funct ion0<int, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >) + 18
11 dvaui 0x022a6693 dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData::TimerProcStatus(__EventLoopTimer*, void*) + 123
12 dvaui 0x022a66f2 dvaui::ui::OS_NodeTimerData::TimerProc(__EventLoopTimer*, void*) + 24
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92968b7e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4494
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92968d38 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x911368a4 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x911366bd ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91195532 _AcquireNextEvent + 58
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91193c8f RunApplicationEventLoop + 207
19 com.adobe.exo.framework 0x019c6619 exo::app::OS_AppBase::RunEventLoop() + 15
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21 com.adobe.Encore 0x00003dd6 _start + 216
22 com.adobe.Encore 0x00003cfd start + 41
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0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96a4aace __semwait_signal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96a74ced pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 73
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x905962a7 TSWaitOnCondition + 126
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90575226 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 202
4 ...ple.

Bill,
Understand that I am on PC and also am on CS2, so things might have changed, and these answers may well be void, but...
For the Button Overlay, since you are getting booted out of the program, lets try to look at the problem from another direction. With the Menu (the one that Check Project has already flagged as a problem) in the Menu Panel, click on Button Routing icon at the bottom of that Panel. You should see the Buttons come up with two things: Bounding Boxes around each Button, and the little cross, with the Button Numbers, showing the Routing for the players remote buttons. Look at the Bounding Boxes around each Button. Is there any overlap? Often, when building, or re-building Menus, this can happen, and there isnt another fail-safe way to check (a Feature Request might be in order for Photoshop, or Encore). If there is ANY overlap, you need to re-edit that Menu in PS (ideally, as it offers more power, than does Encore) and look at the Highlight sub-Layer for that Button. Re-size it to make sure that the overlap does not happen. I know that you feel confident, that there is no overlap, but Button Routing will verify that. If there is none, then thats another problem for you to hash out with the MAC folk, and a possible glitch in either the program, or within your system.
As for the Orphans, look in your Project Panel and check (in your case) Menus. Are there any, that are not used? You state that you have one Menu in the Project. Do more appear in the Project Panel? If so, remove them. In the Flow Chart Panel, you should also see the Orphaned Assets, in what else, but the Orphanage, at the bottom of that Panel. If you do not, and will not, need them, then Delete (Trashcan) should take care of that error message.
Now, as to why the attempts to work out of Check Project Panel crashes the program... well, I have no clue. Maybe the MAC folk can look at your failure list and tell you exactly what is going on there. However, if you can solve the problems elsewhere, you can get on with your Project, until such time, as you can work that one out.
Good luck, and sorry that you got a non-MAC person to answer.
Hunt

Button overlay problem

hi. I made a DVD with a simple layered menu with 2 buttons and 2 movie tracks. In simulation the button overlay works fine, when I place the mouse over them they highlight. The problem is that after build&burn, I have to click twice the button to send me to the desired track. When I place the mouse over the button it doesn't highlight, press once it highlights, press second time it sends me to the video track.
(tested with DVD player, VLC and PC player - same behaviour)
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General Error or Crash using menu button on chapter playlists

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28 timelines
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Paul.
The trouble I had was the "Abnormal Condition" error when hitting the menu remote button in preview.
There was no problem with Prev/Next buttons though.
I tried burning a disc too, just to check if it would burn true & just played up in preview - but no dice. What happened was the player froze up solid after pressing the menu remote.
I did create another project where the chapter playlists numbered around 28 from a single timeline, and this actually worked as it should do, so I suspect an issue in Encore's internal stacks where this is all addressed.
I had to use a different application in the end.
I believe the reason yours is still failing is simply because despite having 5 timelines, you are still well over the number of chapter playlists that seem to be available.
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There are a couple of issues I have noticed - although this is so far the only one I cannot work around in my projects.
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Instead iof using a chapter playlist to reference each clip, save these for multiple clips that need to be accessed, and from your chapter menu, just point directly to the clip in question.
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This will greatly reduce the number of chapter playlists you are running - and should do the job for you.

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