Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 364)

There are two approaches you can take to create the button transition effect:
• Configure the transition clip as its own menu: To do this, you need to create a menu and
assign the transition clip as its background. You also need to set the menu’s At End
setting to Timeout, enter 0 as the Sec, and set the Action to be the element that the
button originally connected to. Then you need to change the original menu’s button
connection to this transition menu.
The advantage of this method is that, because you are jumping from one menu to
another menu, the disruption during that jump time should be minimal. (All menus
are stored in the same general area on a DVD disc, making it easier for the DVD player
to jump between them.)
• Configure the transition clip as its own track: To do this, you need to create a track and
add the transition clip to its V1 video stream. The only configuration you need to do is
to set the track’s End Jump setting to the element that the button originally connected
to, and to change the original menu’s button connection to this transition track.
Using Languages with Menus
You can configure a menu to support up to 16 different languages. When the DVD first
starts playing, it checks the menu language setting of the DVD player and automatically
displays the corresponding menu (if a menu for that language is available) or the menu
for the first language available (if there is no language match).
The Outline tab lists the languages you have added to the project in the Languages
section. The languages you see there are used to determine only which menus to display
and have no effect on the stream settings within the tracks. By default, one language,
based on the Default Language setting in the Project pane of DVD Studio Pro Preferences,
appears in the Outline tab.
You do not actually create different menus for each language—you simply assign separate
background, overlay, and audio (if applicable) files to each language. You can also change
the text in any text objects and buttons. These three files and the text changes are the
only differences between the languages. Button active areas, links, and all other menu
settings are exactly the same for each language.
Note: Because the start frames of transitions are based on the menu’s background video,
separate transition clips are rendered for each language that uses a different background
video.
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