Roxio DVDit Pro HD, User Manual

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Chapter 7 Creating and editing menus
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Editing menu subpictures
In a finished DVD, every menu button has a subpicture image that changes color and opacity
when the button is displayed normally, selected, and activated:
The color and opacity values for the normal, selected, and activated button states are stored
in a
subpicture color set . For example, the color set for the above buttons defines the normal,
unselected state as 0% opacity (so the color does not matter), the selected state as 50%
yellow, and the activated state as 50% cyan. All the buttons on a menu use the same color
set, but different menus can use different color sets. Each project has three global color sets,
and any menu can have its own custom color set.
Buttons created from single-layer images or video assets can use only one color for each
selection state. Buttons and menus created from layered Photoshop files can have up to three
colors for each state, depending on the number of colors used in the Photoshop file’s
Overlay layer. See
“Creating buttons and menus in Adobe Photoshop” on page 55 for
instructions on creating buttons and menus with subpictures.
This section includes:
• “Choosing a menu’s color set” on page 125
• “Editing subpicture color sets” on page 125
• “Setting the Subpicture Start point” on page 126
Button selected by viewer,
using the remote control’s
navigation buttons
Button activated by viewer
pressing the remote control’s
Enter button.
Normal (unselected)
button
This image appears briefly
before the linked material is
displayed.
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