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Menu and Background properties:
This dialog is started with a right click on the menu background and
selecting 'Menu properties' in the context menu.
1. Image
With right-click on the
icon right next to the image, you can open a selection window for
pictures
in the formats JPG, BMP, PNG and GIF. The selected picture is scaled
automatically to 720x576 pixel (or 720x480 for NTSC).
2. Animation (only shown if 'animated menus' is switched on)
If a background animation is selected, the 'Image' (point 1) has no
meaning anymore for the final DVD. You can use MPEG files (should be
elementary streams) or uncompressed AVI (the video will be reencoded
each case). The duration of the video is not shown here, you need to
know it yourself and enter it in the 'Duration' field below. Caution:
If you use an animated background video, or also a still background
video with sound, you have to make sure that the duration of these
background elements fits to the duration given here. Otherwise 'loop'
will not work correct... You may also do the 'opposite' and activate
'Loop and Trim' for the background animation file, then the background
animation is either looped or cut to the given duration. If an
audio should be added too, the duration must fit to the one of the
video (or to the given duration if 'Loop and Trim' is activ).
3. Audiofile
If you use a MP2 or AC3 file as background music, you see some
additional information (Bitrate, duration...).
4. Animation settings (applies also for still menus with sound!)
The 'Duration' to be entered here has to fit to all elements
(background animation and/or background music)! If a
background animation is used, the Quality setting has no meaning (as
HC/QuEnc is used in constant quality mode).
If the background is an image
you can choose to encode only one picture (or the given number of
frames for still menus from the Def. Settings
respectively) for the menu
video file (1 frame) or (perhaps some stand alone Players need it?!) a
menu video file with the same length as the audio file (Full length).
For a "Full length" menu video it may
make sense to decrease the bit rate and or quality to keep the file
smaller.
Remark: Some users reported problems for still menus with sound if the
number of frames for still menus was not set to "1" . With 2 or more
frames only 'Full length' encoding was possible. Using insnav, less
problems have been reported for 1 or 2 frames, but total failure with
more than 6 frames. These parameters can be set in the internal Def. Settings.
If you use MuxMan as authoring engine, this parameter has no meaning.
Highlight delay (seconds): Number of seconds until the button highlight is 'switched on'.
Transition
(only visible if both advanced mode and animated menus is turned on):
If activated the menu is considered to be a transition between other
menus (or also between menu and movie). The actual 'Transition'
(usually crossfade or fade in/ fade out) can be set up with the
Transition Script Editor. See: Transition menus for more information.
5. Post action
Here you can select whether the whole menu is to repeat
itself (loop) or not. Loop should be used for animated menus
or still menus with sound only.
Pause: Sets the time the menu is shown (if no buttons are
pressed
so long) before the selected action is raised (or the menu is shown
again if looping). The range is 0 to
255 seconds or "inf" (infinite).
Advanced Pre/Post Command Editor: With this button you can
start a simple VM-Command editor
to change pre and post commands for
this menu. As long as you stay with the 'Default' values here, GfD
automatically calculates/sets these commands according to the selected
'Start'- and 'End' actions in the default project settings.
To achive more control of these actions, you may 'overwrite' the
default values (i.e. to set a specific register or audio
stream/subtitle stream, jump to another menu according to a register
value...). In this case you are responsible for the logic yourself.
See also: Variables
concept and Post
actions for
menus
6. Raster settings
Raster X: Raster width in X (horizontal) direction
Raster Y: Raster width in Y (vertical) direction
Defaults may be set in internal
default settings
7. Menutype
The menu type can be changed here, but only for submenus of
titlesetmenus. As only one root/audio/chapter... menu is allowed per
titleset, you cannot change the menu type to an already existing
'special' submenu.You can always change a 'special' submenu to
the
general type: 'submenu'.
8. Blur settings
Enable or disable blurring for this menu and set up the values for X
(horizontal) direction and Y (vertical) direction
Defaults may be set in internal
default settings
See also: Using Blur
9. Highlight settings
See: HighLight
properties
10. Style
Here you may change the highlight style for the actual menu (see also default menu settings).
For Titleset menus (for all other menus this value is read only) you
may also change the menu aspect ratio to a different value than the
global menu aspect ratio (as defined in the default menu
settings). This menu aspect ratio is then also applied to all submenus
of the actual titleset menu.