MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 Moving background with Akaba New Concept, Enter Drawmode

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the magnifying glass) and drag the mouse to size the rectangle.

A medium-sized background icon for “DVD- Arabesk 2” must be of size 102 x 96 (NTSC = 120 x 80). Add this value to the coordinates and subtract 1 so that the rectangle is positioned at the coordinates 565, 185 (NTSC = 565, 169).

Confirm by clicking on the left trackball key.

You have just created a window as a wall.

The background menu thus created could appear as follows:

Then select the color green in the palette window and click on the closed-polygon tool. With the help of the crosshairs ( in the magnifying-glass function) draw window frames at the left and right edges of the window.

5.4Moving background with Akaba - New Concept

In this example you will learn to use the program Akaba - New Concept to create the entire background menu.

Pick an appropriate scene for a fixed image, for example “Bricks” from the image pool (“Type: Monochromatic”) and set its duration to 20 seconds. Then start Akaba - New Concept and

enter Drawmode.

At first, turn on the magnifying glass and select the color white in the palette window, click on the tool “open rectangle”.

Then position the upper left corner e.g. at the coordinates 446,90 (displayed with the help of

With the selection button to the upper right activate the option “Drawing” and cut out the complete window including the frames by using the rectangle brush. To do this draw an enclosing rectangle around the object. Set the fuzziness to 0%, the width to 100% and click on the button “Stamp”.