Comments on: Full-Color DVD Menu Highlights

By: Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:26:29 +0000

smgpugfaw: Hm. Make sure no buttons are selected, and check the Background Media tab of the Menu Page Properties window. Do you have anything listed for the Highlight Mask setting? You shouldn’t. That’s one thing I can think of that would cause your issue. I’ll have to play around with DVD Architect to figure out others if that’s not it.

Addendum: Oops, didn’t see that you’d found the answer. Glad to hear it!

By: smgpugfaw

smgpugfaw — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:22:31 +0000

Nevermind. Sorted it out. Was making the transparent color a solid in the process of changing colors.

Great tutorial. Helped a lot. Thanks!

By: smgpugfaw

smgpugfaw — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:42:44 +0000

When I do this it all works as expected except that the entire background gets covered in the inactive color (white in the wedding example) so that it just becomes a plain white background.

If I switch the inactive color back to transparent, the background image becomes visible again. Can’t figure out why the inactive color is covering the entire screen.

By: Godfrey

Godfrey — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:35:06 +0000

Hey Rob.

Was told it couldn’t be done! Well done. It sure works for us but we cannot get a highlighted arrow to work with an animated image next to it- only with text. Are we missing somthing or will your tip only work with text? Thanks again.

By: jojo

jojo — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:29:39 +0000

Very nice article, very useful.

thanks for the help and keep upthe good work.

By: Job

Job — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:17:08 +0000

Extremely useful Rob, many thanks.
I had been trying to figure that out but understood too little about the color sets.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Job

By: sony dvd architect

sony dvd architect — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:10:38 +0000

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By: Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:11:22 +0000

I’m afraid I’m stumped, Daniel. I can reproduce the problem you see, but cannot figure out if this is a) a problem with the way DVD Architect creates the inactive button highlights, b) a problem with the way VLC intreprets those highlights, or c) just a conflict between the two. Nor have I found a solution so far.

I made several projects in DVDA, trying out things to change the outcome — including using the other colors in the color set — but no matter what, VLC seems to only accept “transparent” as valid for inactive items. I also looked all through VLC’s settings to see if there was anything to change this, but nothing helped.

I’d try using another authoring app to mirror the same technique, but I don’t any others that even let the user use highlights on the inactive buttons.

So far, of the players I’ve tried, VLC is the only one that exhibits this behavior, though, if that’s any consolation.

Any other readers out there have a suggestion?

Rob

By: Daniel Gaze

Daniel Gaze — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:43:09 +0000

Hi there Rob, hoping you can help. I followed your tutorial with a dvd menu of my own, and when previewing in dvd architect the trick appears to work. However once I created the dvd to a audio ts/video ts output folder and used dvdshrink to turn into a .iso file, all icons appear when playing through vlc media player. Any ideas?

By: Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:31:48 +0000

That will hide everything while the button is being activated, but there is still a moment after that but before the selected item is played during which all highlights disappear — including the Active color.