What program makes the DVD Studio Pro 4 Templates? Motion?

I was wondering what software the designers used to make some of the beautiful templates. Please let me know of some suggestions, or on how to make motion menu screens. Does everyone use motion here?

Hey George, sure thing
(by the way, if you don't mind, giving a helpful rating to a
response gives my forum profile a boost, if you take a moment
to mark a response as helpful or solved...)
anyhoo, here's two approached for doing your own
take on a Template you like (One Long, one short)
1) Take a screenshot of the DVDSP Template you like using
the free Mac OSX Utility app "Grab" or an app like Snapz ProX
2) In Photoshop or a program like it, do a mockup of
that Template throwing in your own design ideas,
using layers help.
3) Create a separate layer in the Photoshop doc that
simply creates shapes (best if they're square/rectangular)
that act as the size/placeholders of the buttons
4) Do into DVDSP and simply create a New Menu,
choose Overlay and bring this Photoshop mockup as
a background, bringing in all Layers (not flattening it) including the Normal state of the buttons and the separate layer with the shapes
(Normal = the buttons the DVD user 1st sees when they go
to the Menu and before they make a selection)
5) Then simply assign the Overlay to your Photoshop layer
that has the shapes (note: these are different than the
normal states of the buttons as they actually tell DVDSP
to treat the overlay (aka functionality) to these shapes
voila, you have your own custom-made menu
A shorter approach would be to apply a Template in DVDSP
and start re-arranging certain elements, although there's
not as much control if you were to start from scratch
with your own Photoshop
keep in mind, there is also the option to do
a Layered Menu as opposed to an Overlay Menu,
which is cool in that it acts more like a website menu
(e.g. you hit a hyperlink that automatically updates
a line of text or image on the very same page) but
Layered Menus react slower for the DVD user and cannot
have Audio or Video in them
hope that gives you a running start
cheers

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