Motion Menue creation help needed

[Locutus]

Hi everybody!

I'd like to create a SVCD with Motion Menue much like a comercial DVD. I was told that for this purpose TSCV would be a good tool. So i read the doom9 guide for TSCV menue creation. It says that i should already know how to extract the Video file for the menue out of the video. Well, i know how to extract parts of a video, but creating a motioned background with little video thumbnails for the chapters in front is far of my abilities. So:

How to create motioned Video with chapter thumbnails for a SVCD Menue?

Maybe there is a specific program that i have to use or does it even work with Premiere or Ulead? Sounds like a difficult question to me.

Thank u for any help.

Locutus

[Justinus]

Go here (http://www.tscv.org) and learn from the guides at TSCV official website ;)

[matrix]

TSCV does all that by itself. You just need to give it some info.
There are also other means of doing motion menues (great ones BTW),which require using more programs, but the results are great. Information on how to do that, you can find some here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24323) some there (http://www.geocities.com/diarav2002/vcd/vcd_menu_guide.html) even here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29359&perpage=20&pagenumber=5) or if you ask for help.
I quit using tscv a long time ago because of its limitations. I do it with avisynth, mabe requires more work, but its fun (for me aniway) and I'm more than pleased with the results.

[Justinus]

Wow...that's good way to do a motion menu :) I'll give it a try. I love to do things from scratch.

[matrix]

Remember that script, the 3rd post in this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29359&perpage=20&pagenumber=5) thread?
It's so long, and kinda hard to do.
Here's another one: it does the same thing, but is so much simpler.
#part1 Sources

clip1=AVISource("C:\Movie\t1.avi")
clip2=AVISource("C:\Movie\t1.avi")
clip3=AVISource("C:\Movie\t2.avi")
clip4=AVISource("C:\Movie\t3.avi")
clip5=AVISource("C:\Movie\t4.avi")
clip6=AVISource("C:\Movie\t5.avi")
clip7=AVISource("C:\Movie\t6.avi")
clip8=AVISource("C:\Movie\t7.avi")

#part2 trimming the clips for the larger thumbnail

v1=Trim(clip2,1,158)
v2=Trim(clip3,161,318)
v3=Trim(clip4,321,458)
v4=Trim(clip5,481,638)
v5=Trim(clip6,641,798)
v6=Trim(clip7,801,958)
v7=Trim(clip8,961,1118)

#part3 adding the fade in, fade out

v1=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v1,15)),15))
v2=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v2,15)),15))
v3=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v3,15)),15))
v4=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v4,15)),15))
v5=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v5,15)),15))
v6=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v6,15)),15))
v7=Reverse(FadeOut(Reverse(FadeOut(v7,15)),15))
clip9=v1+v2+v3+v4+v5+v6+v7

#part4 main clip, (background immage(motion))

clip1.Crop(0,60,-0,-60).BicubicResize(480,480)

#part5 applying the thumbnails on the main clip

Layer(clip2.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255, 16,40)
Layer(clip3.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,132,40)
Layer(clip4.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,248,40)
Layer(clip5.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,364,40)
Layer(clip6.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,45,170)
Layer(clip7.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,190,170)
Layer(clip8.BicubicResize(100,100),"add",255,335,170)
Layer(clip9.BicubicResize(160,160),"add",255,160,300)

return last

And if you don't want the larger thumbnail that plays few sec. of each clip, just take out part2, part3, and the last "Layer".
Is that simple.