Roxio DVDit Pro HD, User Manual

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Chapter 7 Creating and editing menus
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Adding the button highlight areas
A button’s highlight is what identifies the button to a DVD player. Buttons that you create
by dragging button images onto a menu (as described in
“Adding menu objects” on
page 109 ) do not have highlights until you link the buttons to other menus or titles. When
you create menus using layered Photoshop files, you must create each button highlight
manually before you can link the button to anything.
To add button highlights to a menu:
1. Double-click the menu in the Project window. The menu appears in the Preview
window.
2. Select DVD Menus > View Selected Subpictures or View Activated Subpictures, so you
can see the button subpicture images.
3. If the subpictures are difficult to see against the menu background, deselect View >
View Background Layer to hide the background.
4. Select DVD Menus > Tools > Highlight Tool. DVDit Pro HD switches to the Highlight
tool (a cross-hair cursor).
5. To create a button highlight, draw a rectangle around the button’s subpicture. DVDit
Pro HD automatically fills the button highlight with a block of color.
6. On the General tab of the Attributes window, set the Subpicture Style pop-up menu to
Image’s Subpicture Layer. This ensures that DVDit Pro HD uses the subpicture image
from the Photoshop file.
To link the new button to the project contents, see “Linking content to menu buttons” on
page 130 .
Notes on creating button highlights
• Button highlights are invisible on the finished DVD.
• A button highlight rectangle must completely enclose the button’s subpicture image.
Any subpicture image that is outside a highlight rectangle will not change color when
the button is selected or activated.
• Button highlights must not overlap. It’s best to have at least a few pixels of space
between button highlight rectangles.
• DVDit Pro HD gives each button highlight a button number , seen in the top left corner
of the rectangle. For more information, see “Notes on button links” on page 131 .
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