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To add audio to a menu
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Do one of the following:
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Select the menu in the Project panel. Then, in the Properties panel, click the Motion panel and drag the Audio
pick whip to the audio file in the Project panel.
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Drag the audio file from the Project panel to the menu in the Menu Viewer.
Note: You link directly to the audio assets, not a timeline.
Video thumbnail buttons
Creating video thumbnail buttons
A button can contain a thumbnail image of the video in the timeline to which it is linked. You need to understand
the following concepts when creating a video thumbnail:
Placeholder determines size
size of the placeholder image determines the size of the video displayed in the menu. If the image is not rectangular,
Adobe Encore DVD calculates the smallest rectangle in which the image could fit.
Always rectangular, unless masked
However, you can overlay it with a layer (bitmap) or vector mask in Photoshop. A mask can hide portions of the
image, forming a window through which the video plays.
The placeholder layer must have the layer name prefix (%). The prefix includes the paren-
Layer name prefix (%)
thesis, for example (%)Rigging.
Destination timeline displayed
destination. You cannot play one timeline in the thumbnail and have the button lead to a different timeline. Also,
until you link the button to the video, you see only the placeholder image.
The thumbnail video can be still or moving. Animating video thumbnails is a menu setting. All the
Still or moving
thumbnails on a particular menu must be either still or moving. You set the animation by using the menu property
called Animate Buttons. (See "To animate video thumbnail buttons" on page 107.)
A video thumbnail plays within the boundaries of the menu duration setting. For example, if the
Looping or clipped
menu duration setting exceeds the length of the video thumbnail, the thumbnail loops, starting at the destination
chapter (or poster frame if specified). You set the menu display time and looping of the entire menu in the Properties
panel. (See "Controlling menu display time and looping" on page 107.)
Using the chapter property called Poster, you can designate a specific start point or frame to display.
Poster frame
Otherwise, the thumbnail begins at the first frame of the destination chapter or displays the first bright (non-black)
frame of the chapter if Animate Buttons is turned off for the menu.
You use a single layer in a button layer set to serve as a placeholder for the video. The
The video remains rectangular regardless of the shape of the image layer.
A video thumbnail can display only the timeline to which it is linked, that is, its
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