Menu Maker Helper
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Highlights are not showing on the Previous/Next buttons
1 – Verify that Previous/Next buttons are part of the Highlight Area (Subpicture) layer.
2 – Check that the Previous/Next button shapes are included on the Button Image layer.
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Button text/labels are missing
1 – Enter the text through the PRV-LX1 Function menu/DVD Menu option.
2 – Add button labels to the background if there will be only a single DVD menu page
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Custom menu or button images are truncated or cut off
1 – Confirm that the full menu image size is 720 pixels (W) x 480 pixels (H).
2 – Verify that empty areas in each layer are filled appropriately, with Black or White.
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Thumbnail images are always the first frame from each clip or show as black
1 – Check that the Thumbnail Area and Thumbnail Mask layers align properly.
2 – A thumbnail defaults as a clip’s first frame but can be changed through the Function
menu. Refer to the operating instructions for capturing a frame to represent a thumbnail.
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DVD Menu Maker window disappears after clicking on OK (the program closes)
1 – If no modifications are required continue with copying the folder to disc.
2 – All modifications have been incorporated into the menu files and the custom menu
folder is ready to copy to disc for importation to the PRV-LX1.
3 – Re-launch the menu application and start again if the application was closed in error.
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Menu Maker Helper freezes and the progress bar stops after I push a button
A message box should appear telling you to switch to Photoshop because there is a
problem. If no box appears, toggle to Photoshop to check for error messages. Usually
Photoshop is asking whether you wish to save a background or button template file.
Clicking YES saves the modified file so that the issue does not happen again. Selecting
NO means the application will freeze at this same place next time you use that button
template or the specific background.
To avoid seeing this message, open each file (backgrounds and buttons template) then
save to the same folder. Saving a MMH image in the same folder allows Photoshop to
recognize the material as an image file with scripting data. This action is only necessary
for Photoshop 7.0 users who require the scripting plug-in to operate MMH properly.
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Button(s) missing from my menu but the button(s) show in PSD file
When creating your custom button templates avoid anti-aliasing/feathering on Area
layers. Before creating your template, set the General Preference for Interpolation to
Nearest Neighbor (fastest)
. This setting reduces but does not eliminate all anti-aliasing.
Preferences are accessible from Photoshop’s Edit menu.
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Phantom buttons are appearing on the custom menu
Sometimes a custom menu with multiple pages can produce shadows of the Normal
color as a highlight around non-existent buttons. Change the Normal Color’s opacity
level to black or create a menu layout with an even division of buttons (i.e. 10 titles with
5 buttons per menu-page).
