The Type tab in the Properties dialog box for a page allows you to change the type of the selected page. Opus DVD uses page types to determine what features are available for that page. For information on what each page type is used for and their benefits and limitations, see the Page types in Opus DVD topic.
Click the Normal Page option to set the current page as a Normal page. These pages have no specific settings.
Click the Menu Page option to set the current page as a Menu page. The pages have several specific settings:
Hotspot colour This is the colour of the selection rectangle displayed over an active menu hotspot. DVD hotspots can only be a single colour.
Hotspot Style This determines the way a hotspot (that is, an object with a Go To Page action attached to it) is displayed. The default option is to draw a rectangle round the entire object being used as the hotspot. It is also possible to select an image to be used for the hotspots.
Notes:
Only one hotspot style can be specified per menu page.
Using image hotspots the image is centred within the object used as the hotspot. For this reason the most effective way to use image hotspots is to draw the hotspot object next to any menu text, rather than setting the hotspot on the text itself.
Run page for This determines the length of time the video for the menu should run for. Menu pages can have non-interactive animations or video backgrounds. If the menu page has no animation or music and the Repeat option is not used, this time can be set as short as 1 second. Please see the Note below for the Repeat at End option when setting short page times.
Repeat at end - Check the Repeat at end option if the menu page should loop. This can be useful for animated menu pages or those with background music.
Note:
DVD players take a noticeable period of time to reset at the end of a looped menu page. If the page time is set to a very short period then it can become difficult to select a menu item as the menu state is reset at the end of each repeat. It is therefore recommended that if the Repeat at end option is used, the Run page for time should be set to a minimum of 10 seconds, and longer if disk space permits.
Click the Video Page option to set the current page as a Video page. Video pages have several specific settings:
Filename Use the Browse button to locate the video file to display.
Go to this page when finished This is the page that that will be displayed when this video page has completed. This page can be any kind of page; so you can return to a menu or play another video page, for example.
Dont re-encode video If you have source video files that are already in DVD compatible MPEG2 format selecting this option will cause the files to be included into the final DVD without re-encoding them. This will preserve their original quality and speed the publish process. All other formats must be re-encoded.
Note:
This is an advanced option. Opus cannot detect in advance whether the source file is DVD compatible, so you should only check this option if you are certain the file is in the correct format.
Chapters This button allows you to split a long source video up with chapter points so the user can easily navigate within the video. Chapter points can be added manually or imported from the Time Marker dialog.
Click on the Apply button to save your changes.
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