Blu-ray pop-up menu's?

Pieter wrote on 5/11/2010, 5:51 AM

Is it possible to make menu's appear as transparent pop-ups as with commercial made Blu-ray's? The normal DVD style menus works, however I'm unable to get a menu appearing while the movie is playing. How do you do this?

Thanks

Pieter

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richard-courtney wrote on 5/11/2010, 6:50 AM

Sorry, DVDA doesn't support the Java language needed to do this without
a pause. (Video part 1, menu, video part 2)

Pieter wrote on 5/11/2010, 9:25 AM

Thanks, not exactly what I wanted to hear. However, any suggestions on any of the other software packages that can do this. What about TMPEnc . Authoring Works 4 or Ulead? Strangely enough they are much cheaper than Sony Vegas Pro 9.

Pieter

MPM wrote on 5/11/2010, 4:09 PM

Last I looked you either pay *BIG* bucks or learn to use Java -- they have an open source BD development effort going.

Personally I'd look for Java to start appearing in apps not *too* far off in the future, once burners & discs come down a bit more & the market & demand for economical or free solutions starts to grow. Right now there are some serious free-ware & open source efforts going on everything else BD, but home users are more focused on BD5 & BD9 because blanks & burners are so high.

Leopardman wrote on 5/15/2010, 3:07 PM

TMPGEnc Authoring works 4 allows for popup menus, though I have not tried it yet.

Pieter wrote on 5/18/2010, 9:06 AM

Leopardman,

I have bought and used TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4, and it is really a great product. Popup menu's works and I think I do not need DVDA anymore. You do not have to spend megabucks for a good Java generator, $99 for TMPGEnc AW 4.

Pieter