Creating Motion Menu in Scenarist

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Hello everyone! Can anyone help me on how to create a Motion Menu in Scenarist. (I have created still menus, they look crappy)
I will be using Premiere as Doom9 suggested.
Thanks in advance!

define create. If you just want to re-build some menus present on DVDs that isn't much of a problem (except if they have buttons that do complicated commands but ifoedit can tell you what commands are being done and all you need to do is read the scenarist manual like 10 times and you'll understand how things work - there's no way around that trust me). If you want to create such menus from scratch you're in for something quite different.. you need to learn how to overlay different video clips in scenarist.. that goes more into video editing and is outside of the scope of my guides.. and in fact I've never used premiere myself so I couldn't be of much help...

Thanks bro! I guess I have to read the mannual some more times.But thanks!

(I want to start from scratch)

The easiest way to do it is to use Avisynth scripts to crop and addBorders the videos into the postions of the buttons on your menu.

I've forgotten the commands, but I have the scripts saved around here somewhere.

Anyway, go into premiere, load your assests in the Bin, and then load then into the timeline.

The bmp goes quot;abovequot; the clips that are your motion buttons. If you fill in the spaces where they go in the bmp with true RGB green (0,255,0), then you can use the colorkeying to replace that green with the videos.

However, since you have several videos on top of one another, you have to use a mask to make sure that only the non-black area gets through. And you have to set the transparency correctly, so that the videos even show through one another in the first place.

Yes, it's that complicated.

But it's pretty hardcore when you finish. I should upload the cDVD image to my FTP to let people see what the result is.

I actually found it extremely easy to create some farfetched full motion menus in Vegas, I did the actual buttons in photoshop and then used them as a seperate track right alongside the all the video sequences...and what with all the drag and drop and auto-crossfade abilities of the program, it was not only easy but extremely fun. I suppose the only major drawback it has is it can't save via a cce plugin, and that it wouldnt even accept a CCE'd m2v unless I vfapi'd it first...On top of all that, I only have a 750p3, and Vegas runs 10 times smoother and quicker than premiere on it.
As for creating the actual tracks in scenarist, just start a video track as you would a normal video track, and after that it's the same as doing a still menu, except all of your sections of the track must be the same length (video, audio, subs, and highlight). If you have a 2 part video, i.e., an intro that rolls into a menu you want to loop, be sure to get an I-frame right on the scene change point though...but to avoid the confusion, just make the intro and the menu 2 seperate tracks (I spent days over this frustration). The guide's here do a much better job of explaining it than the manual, but you really learn it by experimenting with it.