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MAY 27, 2003 Customizing iDVD 3, Part 3
When you're done, you'll have three QuickTime movies, which you can double-click to open in the QuickTime Player to see what each one is. The first shows the boundaries of the drop zone with a yellow and black border. The second is the overlay graphic (or motion graphic). And the third is your motion mask.  [an error occurred while processing this directive]The first of these, the boundary marker, is somewhat irrelevant to our task here. I haven't seen any particular value in modifying it (as far as the finished product goes), so we'll leave it alone.The other two files are the ones you're going to want to modify. To do this, simply create a mask and foreground image. These can be movies or stills. It doesn't matter. And you can make them any size you wish, up to 640 x 480. For my example, my foreground image is going to be a still picture of an old television set. I've made modifications to it in Adobe Photoshop and saved it out as a TIFF file. The dimensions of the file are 640 x 480. (Keep in mind that a 640 x 480 foreground image will completely cover up any background image you're using.)  Masks used for drop zones are simply based on grayscale luminance values. The white areas will reveal your foreground image, while the black areas will reveal the movie file you later place into your drop zone. Gray portions of your mask will blend the two.  When you're done with these, copy your new files into the Materials folder. Give them the exact names that correspond to each of the elements described above. Your mask file will be called "1BBA5D50-0F16-11D7-B18B-0003939BA86A," and your foreground will be called "1BFD157E-0F16-11D7-B18B-0003939BA86A." (If you created a modified drop zone boundary file, it will be called "1BB9F8B8-0F16-11D7-B18B-0003939BA86A.")  After this, right-click (or Control-click) on each of the files, and select Get Info from the list of options. In the Get Info window, manually remove the file extensions on each of the file names.  When you're done with all of this, copy your 000_Theater.them file back into the directory within iDVD from whence it came. You're done with the hard part. Prev 1 2 3 Next Related sites: • AV Video • Creative Mac • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • DVD Creation • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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