NAME
movie-make-title-simple - Creates a simple title sequence that can be
used to create a menu with movie-title
SYNOPSIS
movie-make-title-simple -o output -m mode [-i image [-s]]
[-b background] [-a audio] [-n animation]
DESCRIPTION
This program allows you to create a simple menu background for use with
the movie-title program, which can then be used to create menus for
DVDs with more than one menu on them.
You have the option of telling the program to use an empty background
of a specific color (black being the default color) or to use an image
that you supply to put in the background (optionally scaled to fit the
screen).
Further, you have the option of supplying an audio track to be played
while the menu is being displayed. If you do not specify an audio
track, no audio will be played: this also means that the menu is
completely static, and animated picture-in-picture versions of the
movies that are displayed in the menu are not possible, only static
pictures are possible in this case.
The best way to grasp how the system works is by trying it out for
yourself.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-o output
Specifies the name of the directory that should be created and
will contain a number of JPEG files and a WAV file for the audio
of the title sequence after the program is done. Personally, I
usually use the name title (short and to-the-point).
-m mode
Specify either pal or ntsc, depending on whether you are
creating a PAL or NTSC DVD. NTSC is an American TV standard,
PAL is usually used in Europe and other parts of the world.
-i image
If you specify this option, you can supply the filename of an
image in any format that the ImageMagick suite understands, and
that image will be displayed in the background of your DVD menu.
The image will be displayed in its original format, unless you
specify the -s option (see below).
A PAL menu is 720 pixels wide and 576 pixels in height. An NTSC
menu is 720 pixels wide and 480 pixels in height. The aspect
ratio of either is not exactly 4:3, but is close enough.
If your picture is larger than the resolution of the menu
itself, it will be scaled down (keeping the aspect ratio intact)
to fit on the screen. If your picture does not have the same
dimensions as the menu and leaves borders, the color of those
borders can de determined using the -b option (see below).
-s This option may only be specified if you specify the -i option
as well. Otherwise, the program will complain and abort.
This option, if specified, causes the image that was specified
using the -i option to be scaled to the size of the menu itself
(making it as large as possible without any pixels falling off
any edge). If your picture is not the same shape as the menu
and leaves borders, the color of those borders can de determined
using the -b option (see below).
-b background
Using this option, you can determine the color of the background
of the menu that is not covered by the optional image that may
be supplied using the -i option. If the -i option is not used,
this option determines the color of the entire background.
The color must be in the format rgb, #rgb, rrggbb or #rrggbb.
The latter is the same color notation as is used on the web.
Examples are:
000000 Black
000088 Dark blue
0000ff Bright blue
008800 Dark green
00ff00 Bright green
880000 Dark red
ff0000 Bright red
008888 Dark cyan
00ffff Bright cyan
880088 Dark magenta
ff00ff Bright magenta
888800 Brown
ffff00 Yellow
888888 Grey
ffffff White
There are numerous color choosers out on the web, one of which
is http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Using
the color chooser, you can pick any color you like.
As you can see from the syntax of the argument, the hash sign
(#) is optional. If you want to use the hash sign, be sure to
place the entire color specification in single or doubles
quotes, because the hash sign can confuse some shells: they
think the hash sign is the start of a comment, causing the rest
of your command line to be ignored, causing an error because the
-b will not have an argument in this case.
-a audio
Using this option, you may supply the filename of an audio file
to use in the menu. May be an MP3 file, a WAV file or anything
else that mplayer can play without needing extra options.
If you use audio in the menu, this will open up the possibility
of using animated picture-in-picture versions of the movies in
the menu (see the -n option below). If you do not supply an
audio file, this will not be possible to use animated picture-
in-picture versions, only static images or no previews at all
(again, see the -n option below).
-n animation
Using this option, you can tell the program what kind of menu
you would like to create. The possible arguments are none
(which will cause a menu to be created that will have no
previews of the movies, but will only display the background
color/image, the titles of the movies and the navigation
buttons), static (which will cause a menu to be created that
will display a preview image of each movie, but that is not
animated) and animated (which is only possible if you supply an
audio file using the -a option, see above, and which will cause
a menu to be created that will display picture-in-picture
animated previews of the movies).
If you don’t specify this option, the default will be to use
animated if you supplied an audio track to be used and static if
there is no audio.
DIAGNOSTICS
If this program is called with a incorrect set of parameters, it will
print a diagnostic message telling the user what went wrong. Also, it
will then print its usage information, listing all the options and
their meanings.
The program tells you what it is doing while it is running.
EXAMPLE
The command line that I use most often is:
movie-make-title-simple -o title -m pal \
-i background.jpg -s -a nice_music.mp3
SEE ALSO
videotrans(1), movie-title(1), movie-make-title(1), movie-to-dvd(1),
movie-rip-tv.com(1), movie-compare-dvd(1), movie-rip-epg.data(1)
AUTHOR
The author is Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse (sven@berkvens.net). Please
send any project related e-mail to videotrans@berkvens.net.
BUGS
None known. Please report any bugs to videotrans@berkvens.net!
videotrans movie-make-title-simple(1)