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Seamless video for motion menu
Video for DVD motion chapter menu
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This guide presents step-by-step explanations on how to design video clips to be authored as a DVD chapter menu. The menu consists of three small thumbnail video clips which highlights the chapters. In this guide, Adobe Premiere 6.5 is used to produce the desired effect in the final video clip. This technique will work with any Premiere version. If you are unfamiliar with Adobe Premiere, this guide shows you as a potential DVD author an attractive low-cost and uncompromising avenue to author commercial grade DVD chapter menus with motion video background.

The sample video clips are provided in the MPEG-4 AVI format to deliver the video file in size as small as possible without sacrificing video quality. Since Premiere supports a wide range of video formats, the technique explains in this guide will work with popular video format such as digital video DV in either NTSC or PAL video standard.

Since this guide concentrates on the production of DVD motion chapter menu, the seamless aspect of motion menu is not discussed. Because all sample video clips in this guide have very short duration, they are not seamless. For more information on how to produce seamless video clip, visit Guide to produce video for seamless DVD motion menu. The following video clip without audio demonstrates the technique explained in this guide.



Video for DVD motion chapter menu demo,
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Adobe Premiere project files for version 6.x,
bitmap files for the video transition effects and
5-second video clips in MPEG-4 NTSC video
at 360 by 240 (30 frames/second NTSC), so you can
reproduce the motion chapter thumbnails quickly.

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