More complexe menu in Encore

Hi all,
I'd like to know if it's possible in a menu to show some kind of description when highlighting a button.
Exemple : you have many episodes : episode 1 , 2 ,and 3 and when you highlight their respective button a short description of the episode is shown above the said button...
I tried to play with the Hignlight in photoshop ( (=1) (=2) etc...) but if i do that the text become part of the button hence making it huge and overlapping the other buttons...
I'm not very use to Encore but if anyone have some ideas i'll be glad to try!
thanks!

Welcome to the forum.
What you describe is not directly possible because of the DVD-specs. A Sub-picture Highlight can ONLY be 2-bit color and can have Transparency (think just the opposite of Opacity in Photoshop). However, one can create the "illusion," that you have just what you describe. This is done with dupe Menus (one for each Button on the "real" Menu).
Let's say that you have a Menu with 4 Buttons, linked to Chapters in your Project. You would do a dupe Menu for each of those Buttons. The difference is that you would use a graphic (text, picture, etc.) on that dupe Menu, which would not really be part of the Button, but part of the Background. The Button on the Dupe Menu would be linked to that Chapter, and the Button on the "real" Menu would be set to Auto-Activate and be linked to that dupe Menu, and also have its Sub-Picture Highlight turned OFF, or removed.
As you need a dupe Menu for each Button, things can get confusing in a hurry. I strongly suggest doing a flowchart on paper to layout what you need. I also suggest naming the Menus to reflect exactly what they will be doing, and even naming the Buttons on each with more detail, so you can get their Links correct.
Caveat: this will work just as intended on a set-top player, but on a computer, the user will have to dbl-click on that Auto-Activate Button, as that function is not available on the computer. It will still work, just not as seamlessly, as with a set-top player.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - Jeff Bellune covers this scheme in great detail in his wonderful book, The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, Focal Press. Though Encore is now up to CS4, with CS5 right around the corner, everything in Jeff's book applies to all versions through CS4 - have not seen CS5, so I cannot comment there. There are some things added, as of CS3 & CS4, that are not in the book, but are covered in the Help files and here, very well. Everything in the book will still apply.
Message was edited by: Bill Hunt - Added PS

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