but what about the buttons themselves? These have to be part of the background. Hang on – background, button hightlights…. The user will only ever see one of these at a time. The button highlights, which show the user which button is currently selected.
The background, which is a video (typically with audio) that you can create in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or whatever.They’re not like websites or Flash movies where you can do anything you want the specifications are quite narrow. I’m going to assume you already know the basics of Encore and can find your way around Photoshop.įirst of all you have to understand how DVDs and Blu-rays (henceforth collectively referred to simply as “discs”) work. I’ll use Stop/Eject‘s main menu as the example. If, like me, you want to do it all from scratch rather than using any of the built-in templates, the process isn’t particularly intuitive, and was sufficiently different from DVD Studio Pro (the software I’m used to) to leave me scratching my head from time to time, but here’s how I did it in the end. Today I thought I’d share the process I figured out for creating looping menus in Encore for DVD and Blu-ray.
