DVD Studio Pro 105

Custom Menu Templates

48 minutes | by Martin Sitter

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DVD-Video design includes a lot of repetition. Some projects need dozens of menus based on the same design. Custom templates to the rescue ...

DVD Studio Pro's built-in templates and transitions make it easy to create an enhanced DVD-Video presentation. But to really experience the power of templates, you need to know how to build your own custom templates!

Templates let you quickly and effitiently build a "look" or a "flow" for a project. A good menu template is just a cleverly designed background movie with button shapes placed on top. In this program you'll learn how to make both, and use them to full effect.

The program finishes with a detailed description of applying templates to Chapter Menus. You'll even learn how to use DVD Studio Pro's Special Template Buttons to automatically link chapter menus together!

There's a lot to learn ... check out the table of contents by cicking the link below.

Creating Custom Menu Templates
Templates 101
02:40
01: Templates Overview
05:14
02: Template Basics
03:10
03: Importing a Shape
Making Shapes
02:02
04: Creating a Shape Document
01:20
05: About Shape Document Layers
04:02
06: Creating the Mask and Icon Layer
03:14
07: Creating the Shape Layer
04:22
08: Creating the Highlight Layer
05:56
09: Creating Multi-Color Shape Highlights
Using Button and Text Styles
04:44
10: Formatting Buttons for Button Styles
04:48
11: Saving a Button Style
01:12
12: Applying Button Styles
02:08
13: Working with Text Styles
Using Templates
03:00
14: Saving a Menu Template
03:24
15: Creating a Chapter Menu Template
05:12
16: Creating Special Template Buttons

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Custom Menu Templates

Jan 5, 2009

Hi, i found it very useful but i think it needed to be more crearive.

-stefanos Karaoulis

Custom Menu Templates

Jul 4, 2008

Great Video, I thought it was about using the existing templates but i was wrong, Oh well I learned a great deal of menu creation and how to assemble a menu from litteraly a blank page in photo shop.. Amazing. My room mate bought me a tutorial in the form of a book and I still have not been able to get thru it. This Has helped me a great deal. Thanks..

-Alberto Barba

Custom Menu Templates

Mar 18, 2008

I needed to produce a custom DVD menu. DVDSP has many templates, but I needed a certain look on this project. Watching the MPV tutorials help sort through the many options of DVDSP and made making a custom template very easy. And I actually understood what I was doing in the process....Thanks MPV!

-Jeff Sewell

Custom Menu Templates

Jan 28, 2008

This tutorial is at about the same level of the 101 course but goes into detail on how to make your own custom templates and buttons in DVDSP. I used to use iDVD for sending out quick client review copies, always fighting it and manually adjusting the templates with custom backgrounds, text styles, colors and such--and generally wasting a lot of time trying to trick "easy to use" software to do what I wanted to. Meanwhile, DVDSP was sitting in my kit the whole time, unused because it seemed s...

-Gerard Hughes

Custom Menu Templates

Jul 6, 2007

Great

-Kim Rasmussen