Wide Screen animated menus in Scenarist

[aristofeles]

OK - I give up:

Most of the DVDs have a wide screen menu only.
Take for example the Matrix – if I see it on my computer I see the menu, and all the disk, on the wide format. But when I put it on my TV (4X3), the menu is automatically pan-scanned so that I loose the left and right parts and the menu appears on the full screen.

With still menus that’s easy, I only have to set the stills on my project to "4:3 (Pan-scan)" and have two separated subpictures – but how do I make a menu like this using a video file?


Or am I wrong the Matrix (and everything else) is actually using 2 separated menus, and just checking some SPRM to see the format of my TV and display the correct menu according to my setup?

[mpucoder]

Just so when you go looking for things you look for the right things - what you are talking about is a motion menu, animation is done in the subpicture layer.

Every widescreen menu must have a 4:3 displayable version, it can be auto-letterboxed or auto-pan/scan. To use motion video in pan/scan mode it must be encoded with the pan/scan information. CCE and other encoders have this as an option, you can also add the information after encoding with ReStream. Load the video, then down in the lower left change "sequence display extension" from "don't change" to "add" - that's it. more info (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91123)