MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 manual

of video scenes as you have inserted projects with “DVD-Arabesk 2”.

You will also have a 20-second long background image with several PIPs on it (and the complete DVD menu). You can now set audio clips under this scene. To do this, insert your new scene into the storyboard and go to “Audio Mix”, set the original audio off (in order to delete the audio of the video scenes on the background image) and insert an audio clip of your choice.

The menu is played repeatedly, so it is useful to fade the audio clip in and out in order to avoid an abrupt transition. Now go to the “Image processing” effects menu and click on the “Scene” button, so that the time-frame menu appears.

Make sure by using the IN and OUT buttons that you have really selected the menu scene, but usually this 20-second long scene should appear automatically for selection. Click on “Ok” and go to the “Edit” menu.

Now your scene (menu and perhaps also music) is in the middle frame of the scene bin. Start “DVD-Arabesk 2” and go to the function “Edit Menu”. Select the menu item “Background” and set the option “Type” under “Scene”. Clicking on the button “Select” below calls up project selection. Confirm the activated project, so that the corresponding scene bin appears, in which you now call up the previously created menu and confirm with “Ok”. Afterward set the option “Animated” unter “Mode” and activate additionally - in the case that you have put a video clip under the DVD menu created with PIP-Studio - the function “Audio”, so that a checkmark appears.

Then set the “Size” under menu item “Borders” at least to the value two. The alpha value of the frame color (or frame pattern) must not be set to 0%.

Select an appropriate “Color” for the frames, so that the frames can be seen clearly on the background.

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Now only the most important thing is missing: linking your inserted films with the PIPs.

Enter the menu item “Stamps”, click on an icon of one of your projects, so that it is surrounded by a dashed-line frame, and set the option “Background-Stamp” under “Type”. You will see that your previous reference image (except for the frame) has completely disappeared, so that you can see the South Sea picture at this position.

Select under “Size” the setting “medium”, because you have also created a picture of average size (120 x 96) with the program PIP- Studio.

Now you only have to click on the button

“Position” and drag the project frame onto the PIP-Studio icon, and you are finished!

You will see - surrounded by a frame - your new picture, titled with the original film name.

Do the same for the rest of the projects until you have put the frames for all of the projects on the images created with PIP-Studio.

If desired, you can turn off the frame by selecting the frame color and setting its alpha value to 0%.