MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 manual Moving background with Liquid Images

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Calculate the heading and create a scene from it, so that the scene titled with “horizontal scroller” is in the active frame of the scene bin.

Start “DVD-Arabesk 2” and click on “Edit Menu”. Select the menu item “Background”, and then select the function “Type” under “Scene” and call up project selection with the button “Select”. Confirm the activated project so that the corresponding scene bin appears, and confirm the selection of the previously created scene by clicking on “Ok”.

Then set the function “Animated” under “Type”, because using scrolled text - even if only for a fixed image - means that an animated scene is being used!

Select the menu item “Title” and call up the keyboard by clicking on the button “Text”. Delete the existing text and confirm with “Ok”. You do not yet see your new heading because it is a scrolled text that is at the moment off-screen to the right.

Insert your projects and create your DVD menu by e.g. titling the projects or putting frames around them, as described in Chapter 3.

When you calculate your DVD and play it in the built-in player, you will see the heading moving into the picture from the right.

If you take more than 15 seconds to activate a film in the DVD menu, the text will move through the picture again, because the DVD menu is played repeatedly.

Of course you can use supplementary programs to modify the previously described titling.

For example, turning or self-changing (morph technology) titles can be created with ElasticDreams.

Tip: By using a title effect and with the help of the “Scene” function you can put additional text into the background menu. This is an ideal way to display a box in the lower right corner in which e.g. there is a reference to the film director.

5.2Moving background with Liquid Images

Create a black scene with a length of 10 seconds. Insert the scene twice into the storyboard and enter the menu “Transition effects”.

Select the effect Liquid Images, insert it and set the effect length to 10 seconds.

Then set the effect options as follows: Select a shimmering yellow as color, under “Material” set “Liquid”, under “Effect” set the option “Big Slider” and under “Select effect” set the mask “Whirlwind”.