TOAST - Eigene DVD-Menüs erstellen

HouseRoach

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Ich habe mir (für Premiere + Digitalfernsehen) das elgato eyeTV zugelegt. Mit TOAST kann ich die exportierten mpeg2 Dateien als DVD brennen. Da ich manchmal auch mehr Filme auf einer DVD brennen will, hat mich das immer gleiche DVD menü genervt (blauer Hintergrund, grosse Schrift). Ich habe dazu folgenden Artikel gefunden. Ich hoffe, dass dieses Problem hier im Forum noch nicht dikutiert wurde (zumindest habe ich es nicht nicht gefunden) - falls doch kann dieser Thread vom admin gelöscht werden ;)

Create custom DVD menus using Toast 6
Mon, Jan 5 '04 at 08:52AM • from: stonemtn Apps


I had a hunch that the background design for menus in Toast 6 must exist as a tif or jpeg somewhere inside of the Toast package. I was surprised to find that, actually, it's a PSD (Photoshop) file -- and it's not just the background, either! It also appears that Roxio intended to include different "Themes" in Toast 6, but didn't complete them.

By manipulating the ocean.psd file found in: Toast (control-click and choose "Show Package Contents") -> Resources -> Themes, you can completely change the look and feel of the DVD menu background, preview chapter buttons, and titles.
Read the rest of the hint for the how-to...

1. Archive your ocean.psd file so you can replace it with the original. I actually duplicated it and changed the name to oceanArchive.psd and left it in the Themes folder. It doesn't seem to bother Toast.
2. Open ocean.psd in Photoshop. Don't worry if it's blank -- all the layer visibility is turned off.
3. Make your changes: Each layer has a purpose -- in fact, all the visibility is turned off in photoshop, so it will look blank when you open it.

Now, a description of the layers:

* The "background" layer is the background.
* "Forward" and "backward" layers, as well as the "selected" versions, are the buttons for moving through several pages of chapters (I'm assuming if you have more than three pieces of video, these automatically come up).
* "Title" gives you the size, alignment and placement of the Title of the DVD.
* The numbered layers: these indicate the titles and previews for the video clips. I recommend linking these so they move together (unless you want to make it challenging to navigate your DVD!) They work in sets of seven and are numbered: image 1, frame 1, frame 1 selected (the rollover), indextext 1, text 11, text 12 and text 13 all belong to the first video clip.

I haven't gone very far with this -- only moving the images around and changing the background, but I suspect you can change the font type, size, color and alignment -- as well as change the black "image" layers to be different shapes, transparency (by changing the black to grey or erasing parts of the black - I haven't tried this, yet) and maybe sizes, but I'm a little doubtful of that.

WARNING: don't forget that you need about 50 pixels around the edges without any content -- each TV is different, but the edges of this PSD will be cut off on the TV!

In short, I think with this that Toast 6 becomes a much more robust DVD authoring environment. No DVD Studio Pro, but darn good for my uses (ReplayTV -> DVDs).
 
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oder war es zur info?
 
Endlich. Das blaue Menü hing mir so zum Hals raus, dass ich bei DVDs schon gar kein Menü mehr erstellt habe. Danke für den Tipp!!!

Gregor
 
ah - es handelt sich also um einen tip :)
 
Ja sorry - war spät ;)
War ein Tipp - allerdings habe nicht alles en detail ausprobiert - anscheinend hat Roxio die "themes" vorgesehen - vielleicht für kommende Versionen ?!

Gruss HouseRoach
 
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