Other Template Properties
In addition to the button, text, drop zone, and layout style properties, templates contain
the following properties:
• Default Button Style: The default button style is used when a Drop Palette action requires
new buttons to be created on the menu. See
Setting Default Styles
for information on
setting a default button style.
• Default Text Style: The default text style is used when you double-click the menu
background to create a text object. See
Setting Default Styles
for information on setting
a default text style.
• Background Asset: The name of the asset assigned to the menu as the background
• Overlay: The name of the asset assigned to the menu as the subpicture overlay
• Audio Asset: The name of the audio asset assigned to the menu
• Drop Zones: All drop zones added to the menu. Each drop zone includes its own settings.
• Text Objects: All text objects added to the menu. Each text object includes its own
settings.
• Color: The color mapping settings for the menu. These include the color and opacity
assigned to each button state for each of the three color sets, as well as the Color
Palette’s 16 colors.
• Mapping Type: Whether the menu uses the chroma or grayscale mapping type
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• Motion: The timecode values for the start, loop point, end, and duration settings, as
well as the action for the menu’s end
• Shadow: The drop shadow settings that the buttons, text objects, and drop zones can
use
• Display Mode: Whether the menu uses a 4:3,16:9 Pan-Scan, 16:9 Letterbox, or 16:9
Pan-Scan & Letterbox display mode
• Resolution: The video resolution of the video background
• Transitions: All transitions assigned to the menu and its buttons