Adding buttons to your layered menu, Mixing overlay buttons with layered buttons, Configuring a layered button – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual
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Playback Options Settings
• Pre-Script: Choose a script to run before the menu appears. This script can decide
whether to show the menu or configure the DVD player before showing it. See
for information on pre-scripts.
• DVD@CCESS: Selecting this checkbox allows you to add DVD@CCESS links, which provide
additional functionality to your title when played on a computer. See
for
more information.
• Display Condition: Selecting this enables the Display Condition settings which control
whether this menu should be displayed or not, and to define what should be displayed
if not this menu. See
for more information.
Adding Buttons to Your Layered Menu
There are two button types you can add to a layered menu: layered buttons and overlay
buttons. In both cases, the first step is to create a button active area. See
Once you create the active areas, you can configure the buttons. For overlay buttons, see
Using Simple Overlay Color Mapping
and
Using Advanced Overlay Color Mapping
for
details. For layered buttons, see
.
Mixing Overlay Buttons with Layered Buttons
So that you can combine overlay and layered buttons on the same menu, the color
mapping settings are active at all times—even when you aren’t adding an overlay to the
menu. If you see an unexpected color appear in the active areas in any of the button
states (normal, selected, or activated), you need to configure the color mapping settings.
If no overlay file is assigned to a layered menu, a plain white image is used in place of
the overlay file. If the color mapping settings apply a color to white, that color will appear
in the active areas.
When working with a layered menu without an assigned overlay file, you must either:
• Select Simple as the Overlay Colors setting. This automatically sets white to be fully
transparent.
• Select Advanced as the Overlay Colors setting, then set the opacity for white to 0 for
each selection state.
Configuring a Layered Button
Configuring a layered button is a matter of selecting layers in the menu’s PSD file to
display in the three button states (normal, selected, and activated).
To configure a layered button
1
Click in the button’s active area.
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Creating Menus Using the Layered Method