Menu highlight subpicture issue

[BIOSTALL_Amie]

Hi all!

I hope you can help me with a couple of issues I'm having in Encore. I've created my menus in PS, including these arrows for the highlighted button, however in the preview and when i burn a test dvd, instead of the shape I get the highlight colour, even though 'create subpicture' is switched off.

Normal Menu:

With 'Hover Triangles':

And how one of the triangles appears in the preview, and on a burnt disc:

When I uncheck 'Export Highlights In Rich Colours' I get the same issue in the editor. I've tried rasterising the arrows in case the shape layer was the issue, but no difference. I am baffled!

Thanks,

Adam (not Amie!)

[Stan Jones]

DVD or Blu-ray?

Since you mention the rich color option, I assume BD. But then I see you said "test DVD."

If DVD, you can't get the better color and resolution.

If BD, you get the better color (and therefore shape resolution) in the menu editor, but not in Encore preview. So that makes sense. And you will only get the better color on disk, if the rich color option is selected.

[BIOSTALL_Amie]

Thanks Stan. It's for DVD not BluRay. It seems odd, but if that's the case, and I can't have shapes or images as highlight layers, then I'll go back to plan A ...which I also had a problem with!

My text subpicture appears at the top left of the button boundary (which includes the emboss and drop shadow), rather than over the text itself, creating a pretty ugly offset. I tried searching for a solution online to no avail before going to plan B...

I can think of a few ways to work around this, but they're all fairly long winded considering I just want to move one highlight by a few pixels.

Here's a screenshot:

Thanks,

Adam

[Stan Jones]

I just never used the automatic create text subpicture. Always changed things in photoshop. Maybe that will help. But then I still avoided the text becoming the highlight.

The highlight is easier to control if it is not vector. Look at the Encore library sunset menu for its little angle.

[BIOSTALL_Amie]

I've managed to create the different coloured text effect using a set of duplicate, un-effected text layers within photoshop as the highlight layers. In hindsight this would seem the most logical way to build a menu, but I think it was fair to expect Encore to add text highlights directly over the text in question, rather than anchored to the top left of the button! Oh well.

Thanks for your help!

Adam

[Stan Jones]

I agree. Glad you got it sorted!

[neil wilkes]

I have always found it easiest to avoid using text for highlights at all in DVD, especially as we only have 3 colours available to us (as opposed to 256 in Blu-ray) as it will almost certainly get jagged because of the primitive anti-aliasing a 3 colour image allows.

And finally - since when did logic have anything to do with disc authoring?? It has always been Black Magic of the darkest type

[BIOSTALL_Amie]

Haha I certainly feel like I've stumbled across a dark art in producing DVDs. Now to solve the Encore shaky video problem...

[neil wilkes]

What shaky video problem?

Can you please explain?