Roxio DVDit Pro HD, User Manual

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Setting buttons to Auto-activate
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Animating a button in a menu with a still image background causes it to become a motion
menu.
To change the motion menu Duration:
1. Select the menu in the Project window. The Attributes window displays the menu’s
attributes.
2. On the General tab of the Attributes window, change the Duration by dragging the slider
or entering a time value. If the menu does not have a background audio track, the
maximum duration is 00:04:15:00.
See “Setting menu durations” on page 123 for more information.
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Motion menus can take up large amounts of disc space. The DVD-Video format allows
menus to use up to 1 GB of space, which could be filled very quickly if your menu durations
are too long (especially if you choose a high video bit rate in the Project Preferences). Menu
durations no longer than 60 seconds are recommended.
Setting buttons to Auto-activate
Unlike normal buttons, an auto-activating button does not require the viewer to first navigate
to the button and then press Enter to activate it; instead, the button activates immediately
when selected. These buttons are often used when presenting a series of menu pages, such as
a cast member’s biography. A typical page using auto-activating buttons could look like
this:
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