Went ahead and burned my first project disk quite successfully. Surprisingly though, those DVD page nav buttons that show up in putrid green in preview windows DON'T HIGHLIGHT AT ALL on hover or selection when the finished product is burned. That's fine if one is selecting with a mouse, but NO HELP AT ALL if you're using a remote control. I have to count clicks left and right in order to select things. If there is something there, the buttons are so small that one can't detect a change. If they can't change color when selected, can't you add a pop-up box around them so one has a clue where they are and what they're about to press?

Quote: Went ahead and burned my first project disk quite successfully. Surprisingly though, those DVD page nav buttons that show up in putrid green in preview windows DON'T HIGHLIGHT AT ALL on hover or selection when the finished product is burned. That's fine if one is selecting with a mouse, but NO HELP AT ALL if you're using a remote control. I have to count clicks left and right in order to select things. If there is something there, the buttons are so small that one can't detect a change. If they can't change color when selected, can't you add a pop-up box around them so one has a clue where they are and what they're about to press?

Did you try a un-modified built in menu?

The green you are seeing in the Preview is maybe due to a Video Driver and your underpowered computer.
The default built-in menus work fine in most DVD Players.

Things start to go wrong when you modify menus when the preview is not working correctly.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I'm running a brand new, high-end 64-bit quad unit with 12gb of ram, so there's no way the unit is underpowered. Simply changed text of pre-configured titles and replaced the default static background with an animated one, but that's it. Will continue testing, but if the latter change is creating the problem, that's pretty limiting. There's actually no problem with the preview window.

Quote: I'm running a brand new, high-end 64-bit quad unit with 12gb of ram, so there's no way the unit is underpowered. Simply changed text of pre-configured titles and replaced the default static background with an animated one, but that's it. Will continue testing, but if the latter change is creating the problem, that's pretty limiting.

Your computer may be very fast and has plenty of ram, but if your Video and Sound drivers are not up to date, it does cause problems in Powerdirector. Green screens is mostly Video Driver. Some Nvidia drivers do not work well in some versions of Powerdirector. Not as many problems with AMD video cards.

This is a Old Menu design tips. Much still applies.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/42609.page#220136

PowerDirector 13 has some improvements in the Menu system, the basics is much the same.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I'll keep at it. Overall, I find this program excellent on the production end Just miss the smooth integration of DVD chapter configuration/burning that was a hallmark of Apple's aging and no longer supported IDVD app. Magic movie was phenomenal in its simplicity. Maybe in future versions.

Thank you for your input.

Is that the correct link provided above? Seems to be this same page.

Quote: Is that the correct link provided above? Seems to be this same page.

Sorry about that:
I opened it in a Tab and must have copied the wrong link.

This is the correct link.
http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/product-tutorial/enu/powerdirector/7/menudesigntips.jsp

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl -

Have you ever seen those clunky green bars zoner1's referring to?



They appear quite randomly. At least, I haven't found a pattern for it. Nor have I found any setting in menu designer that changes it. It may have something to do with whether "text highlight" has been selected, but I haven't explored that yet.

Some navigation buttons are highlighted in other ways (e.g. colouring, circled, boxed) and some get that daggy green line. I'd be massively surprised if it has ANYTHING to do with hardware or drivers. I'd be UNsurprised if it was some kind of glitch in Menu Designer. Equally, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony,

Actually I have not seen those.

I have not been doing many Disk Menus lately.

I would not surprise me much if the Menu Design does have a bug..

Thank You, Tony for pointing that out.

Carl.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Quote: Some navigation buttons are highlighted in other ways (e.g. colouring, circled, boxed) and some get that daggy green line.

To my knowledge they are not a GUI adjustable item. You can easily change them if desired with a little manual edit, maybe a white underline would suffice. In my opinion, the menu structure has so much more flexibility that's never been exposed in the GUI for some reason.

The issue appears similar to the always red issue posted here http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30262.page and editing to correct about the same.

Bug, feature, oversight, lack of a reasonable development/qualification plan for PD13's new "Enhanced Menu Designer", color blind developer, all potential I guess, good thing is with a little edit one can correct.

Jeff

Jeff -

"'n I dips me lid" For those unfamiliar with pre-WWII Australian venacular, that means "I take my hat off to you" - http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/denniscj/uncollected/idipsmelid.html

Your point about menu modifications that cannot be made in the GUI is absolutely valid. I guess that's why so many of us are scratching our heads!

I went ahead and edited some .xml files, as you'd instructed. All good. That works. Then I started wondering how to replicate the circled, boxed & coloured highlights on navigation buttons. Digging around in the menu template folders, I found that was determined by what's inside the pcbg folder and that std_highlight.xml document. After messing around for a while I decided it was too hard so I just modified a couple of the standard menus. Most everything has been stripped out, so it's almost like starting with a blank template (Create Menu). I also figured lots of folks wouldn't necessarily have the urge to be editing .xml files just to get a respectable looking menu!

If you want circle highlights (like in the screenshot above) - http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/135969731
If you want square highlights (like in the screenshot above) - http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/135969732

I'm still working on the coloured highlight on navigation buttons... like in the "Around the World" menu template. The buttons for that are here - C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\Templates\PowerDirector Content Pack 13\PowerDirector 13 Content Pack Essential\Menus\Around the World\pcbg

Man PDR'S exhausting sometimes!

Cheers - Tony
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