MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 DVD Player User Manual


 
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The background menu thus created could
appear as follows:
5.4 Moving 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 xed 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 rst, 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
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).
Conrm by clicking on the left trackball key.
You have just created a window as a wall.
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.
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”.