Designing Menus with Encore DVD
Learn to create great looking, functional menus using Encore DVD 1.5 with this insider's guide. To help you design better menus, this book explains all the facets of DVD menu design.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Designing Menus with Encore DVD
Menu Color Set Dialog
For more information on color sets, see page 14.
The Menu Color Set dialog is used to manage the highlight colors shown for a menu's selected and activated button states. Encore DVD creates a color set called an automatic color set for each menu. You can, however, create and apply color sets, import color sets from previous projects, and export color sets for future projects. A project can have multiple color sets but a menu can use only one of these sets.
Automatic Color Sets
Encore DVD creates a color set automatically when a menu is imported from Photoshop by deriving and simplifying the colors found in each button's subpicture layers. Encore DVD creates an automatic color set for menus only (not timelines) at key times: when imported, when buttons are added or removed from the menu, when buttons are renumbered, and during the build process. This set is shown in the menu's Properties palette.
Note the following attributes of automatic color sets.
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A menu's automatic color set is not a global color set available to other menus, but is maintained internally within a menu. An automatic color set cannot be shared with other menus.
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An automatic color set is shown in the Menu Color Set dialog, but it is not editable. It can, however, be copied and the copy can be edited. The Color Set dialog displays an automatic color set only when a menu with an automatic color set is the current menu.
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