DVDA 4.5 and creating .PSD buttons

[Doogs]

I Have been playing around with the trial of Sony DVDA 4.5 for a few days now, and with the help of our very own Moderator "Worley", whom i have been bouncing emails and PM's to over the last few days, I THINK" I have got to grips with creating .PSD buttons for use in DVDA 4.5

I was going to post the link to this test file over at the Sony Media forums, but cos i am using a trial and don't actually own the software has forbidden me from posting there.

What i need is for the good folks of the forums to download and just generally test these 2 .psd files out with sample videos of their own, or pics (as the more testers then the quicker i will get to grips with any flaws in how i created the buttons).

The background menus are in the PAL format, but it should be a simple enough case of changing the aspect ratio for NTSC.

After more than 3 years of making Encore tutorials i decided to turn my sights to DVDA, and what a nightmare it has been trying to get to grips with this new software, Encore/photoshop is far more user friendly for creating your own custom menus and buttons.. but each DVD software has it's strengths and weaknesses....

anyways... here's the link.. http://rapidshare.com/files/77731205...ttons.zip.html

[veg]

...and just "generally test"
What do you mean exactly Doogs?
I'm sure I can help but what exactly are you struggling with?
veg

[Doogs]

not sure if i am struggling with anything , would be good if folks could just generally test the butons to make certain that all is working as it should, and not just working for me on my system...

If all is working OK then i may get a video tutorial up and running on how to create the buttons in photoshop (as there are no tuts on the process that I know of )

Thanks

[Worley]

One of the problems we discovered was that if one of us created a DVDA menu using a .psd menu, when that menu was opened on the other's computer, the button highlights were oversized. Everything else was fine.

DVDA also has a silly way on inserting custom menus - not at all intuitive; the layer naming convention is not easy to understand and the manual gives little help on understanding it.

And let's not even talk about colour schemes! If I make a button highlight blue in my .psd file, I want it to remain blue in DVDA, not translucent pink!