Beth Cataldo, January 30, 2007

Viewer's click on hotspots to access different features in your DVD. Each menu in DVDSP can have up to 36 buttons and the buttons themselves can have three states: normal, selected and activated.

You need to define the hotspot -- or activation area -- of a button. Button hotspots must be rectangular (or square in shape). When you're defining your button hotspots, make sure that they don't overlap. You want to make sure you size the button so that it covers the entire area of your graphic.

1. In the menu editor, position your pointer where you want your hotspot to begin. Drag your mouse over the area that you want to define as your hotspot.

2. You can move this button, by selecting and dragging it, or you can resize the button by grabbing one of the edges and dragging it.

3. To delete a button, highlight the button and hit the delete key on your keyboard.

4. To copy a button, select the button you want to copy and press the option key while you are dragging the button. A copy of this button will be created, and you can place it where you want it to go.

5 . To name a button, select the button and the inspector will change from the menu options to the button options. Here you can type in the name of your button.

Setting Button Targets
When a user clicks on a button, they expect something to happen. You need to program DVDSP to target an asset when the user clicks on a button.

1. To link your button to an asset, you first select the button.

2. Go to your Inspector, and under target you want to select the asset that this button will link to when a user selects it.

3. You can also do this from the menu editor by control-clicking anywhere to bring up a shortcut of the same type of targeting selection.

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