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Short description
for Animated menus:
Animated menus are created with AVISynth,
this must be thus installed (version 2.5.7 or higher). The mpeg
decoding package DGMPGDec
(version 1.4.8) is also necessary. For encoding of animated
menus HCenc_019
is used (QuEnc can also be
used: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=570 QuEnc
version 0.71 or higher) HCenc_019.exe and/or QuEnc as well as DGIndex
and DGDecode.dll must be installed in the same directory as
the dvdauthor.exe!. In order to use animated menus set the
tag for 'Animated menus' in the default settings
and enter
the time (in seconds). For animated menus "loop" is standard,
you can however switch it off in the menu background dialog or permanently in the default project settings.
If
you insert a film, an 'animated button' is created by default (this is
a characteristic of the "Film" it can thus switched on and off in the
video and audio files dialog). It consists of the button itself, and a
'substitute
symbol picture' (avisynthpic.gif, automatically created if
missing). The button can be formatted as usual (also
text/graphic…). The substitute symbol picture can
be formatted
(size and if necessary also Crop) like a 'normal'
background picture by right-click. Here you can change also the
substitute symbol picture and even replace the animation stream (with
MPEG or AVI files. Note: Not checked for
'compatibility'!).
With MPEG a part of the file is copied,
which only contains the number of frames used for the length of the
animation. Thus it is avoided that DGIndex creates a d2v
file for the whole movie. For animated background no copy is
used, therefore you can use only elementary MPV/M2V streams or AVI
files. The length of a background animation (as well as the
corresponding audio file - if any) in seconds should fit to the time
entered as 'Animation duration' in the default projects settings
dialog. AVI files are always read in
directly (in the AVISynth script with AVISource =…). 32 bit
AVI files are rendered transparent over the background (either movie or
still picture)
You may add additional 'free' animations with the
'Insert: Anim.' button. Free animations may be removed
with the context menu (right click). As Avisynth cannot load animated
Gif files, these must be converted to 32 Bit AVI. See also: Transparency effects
For all animated buttons and free animations 'Loop()' is used as standard in the
Avisynth script, therefore it is not necessary to adjust the stream
length to the animation time. For normal pictures and texts a
mask is created and 'inserted' in Avisynth by overlay. In the
normal preview only the substitute symbol picture is shown. You can
set a tag to 'AVS preview' in order to open the Avisynth script within
the selected preview program. In this case no Highlight/Activated is
shown.
Unfortunately this procedure (overlay and layer with mask) is quite
slow…
Remark: QuEnc seems to have problems with higher bitrates (>
5000) sometimes (rarely) and produces an 'rc buffer underflow' error.