Scenarist: How do you make motion thumbnail chapters?

[joacim]

I am new to Scenarist and I was wondering how to make motion chapter thumbnail buttons. I have imported my chapter menus from photoshop, along with the sub-picture and I created the chapter boxes in photoshop as well. The million dollar question is how do a link my project so that a streaming video for each chapter box is playing on that menu. My finished result was exactly the same as when I imported from Photoshop (several white boxes), the only difference is that when I highlight a chapter box, it would turn red and go directly to that chapter scene I created in the main movie scene selection timeline. How do I get the boxes to play streaming video of the chapters that I created?

P.S. The Matrix Tutorial" doesn't explain this well enough.

Much help greatly appreciated.

[jfpolo]

You can't do that with Scenarist, you need to create the menu with another program and import it in Scenarist, a sugestion could be DVD Workshop, if you have the program, or Ulead Video Studio, basically you need a video editor to do that.

[joacim]

Thanks jfpolo,

I have Avid, so I could create those menus there. Shit! I can't believe that I couldn't see that. Thanks very much.

Joacim

[hendrix]

ya you can use Avid to create the background and Photoshop to create the subpics

[joacim]

Does Photoshop have a Title safe border area?

[hendrix]

Photoshop CS does

[CirTap]

Photoshop CS also honores non-square pixels for PAL and NTSC.
If you happen to have an earlier version, this feature isn't available so watch out the size of your image.
You may create an Action to mark the "title safe"/"action safe" areas using guides, each with a distance of 5% of the original "image" width/height.

Have fun,
CirTap