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Old 17th December 2003, 07:49   #21  |  Link
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woops - I forgot my ISP changed hands. Pictures should now work.
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Maybe this is already a well known thing...however you can use this method with DVD-lab too.
The color order is different: black ---> blue ---> red ---> white (instead of red ---> black ---> blue ---> white).
You have to import the subpicture bmp with "Load External Sub-picture".
If you check "Antialiased", only color 3 (black) will remain active: you can map it to any color and set its transparency. Color 2 (blue) and 1 (red) will be the same color as number 3 and will automatically have such a tranparency level that 2 will be a little more transparent than 3 and a little less transparent than 1.
If you want to obtain a different transparency gradient than the default one, just don't check "Antialiased", map all the 3 colors to the same color and set for each of them a different transparency.
You can also achieve strange effects if you don't map the 3 colors to the same color.
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hey question. I have never really messed with menus for DVDs (never really ripped to DVD-R), but I'm just wondering.. if you're menu that you are creating in photoshop is 720 x 480, won't it look skewed when it is resized to 4:3 by your DVD player? cause, I look at it this way.

the MPEG-2 video in the DVD is 720 x 480 with a 4:3 aspect, so it looks ok when it is played, but hte menu is 720 x 480 with a 1:1 aspect, so won't that mess up the aspect ratio of the menu and skew the image horizantally? correct me if I'm wrong here!
If I remember right photoshop has an option for the pixel size so that it look "correct" on a sa player
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Scenarist settings for example...



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That's similar to what I did a few days ago for my Harry Potter project although it was a bit more time consuming since I created the sub-layer manually. The indexed 4 color is a great idea! Thanks for the tip, Fankey!
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No, I know what you mean regarding the similarities, but to the best of my knowledge, Steve Jobs (Mr.Apple!)will be using the Spruce engine underneath future MAC products.

The MediaChance stuff is all written by one man, "Oscar", from the ground up. I don't think he's used an SDK. Most of his stuff is C++ with no formal training - quite remarkable when you see how good his software is. I'm really excited by DVDlab's potential.


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Hi Arky.
With apologies for resurrecting an old thread I had to chime in & agree with you here - Oscar is a top man. I think I recall that he used to either work for or use Scenarist a lot, but did not like some of it's quirks & foibles so he came up with DVD-Lab Pro.
Even though it is still not under development any longer (but on the other hand the DVD specs have not changed either) it is still supported.
Spruce Maestro was bought out by Apple, who turned it into the Apple DVD application DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP) and ruined it in the process.

DVD-Lab is a superb & extremely powerful tool.
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