DVD Studio Pro - Creating Simple Overlays

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Creating Simple Overlays

With simple overlays, you must use only white and black to create the graphics.

To create a simple overlay

1

Create a full-screen white background.

See

Square Pixels in Graphics

for information on the frame size to use.

2

Choose black and add the highlight elements to the background.

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Chapter 6

Preparing Menu Assets

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Be sure to disable anti-aliasing and avoid using soft edges. Depending on your graphics
application, choose to use a 1-bit or bitmap mode.

3

Depending on the graphics application you use, you may need to flatten the overlay
elements into a single layer.