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PROGRAM:

NAME

movie-make-title-simple - Creates a simple title sequence that can be used to create a
menu with movie-title

SYNOPSIS

movie-make-title-simple -o output -m mode [-i image [-s]] [-b background] [-a audio]
[-n animation]

DESCRIPTION

This program allows you to create a simple menu background for use with the movie-title
program, which can then be used to create menus for DVDs with more than one menu on them.

You have the option of telling the program to use an empty background of a specific color
(black being the default color) or to use an image that you supply to put in the
background (optionally scaled to fit the screen).

Further, you have the option of supplying an audio track to be played while the menu is
being displayed. If you do not specify an audio track, no audio will be played: this also
means that the menu is completely static, and animated picture-in-picture versions of the
movies that are displayed in the menu are not possible, only static pictures are possible
in this case.

The best way to grasp how the system works is by trying it out for yourself.

OPTIONS

The following options are available:

-o output
Specifies the name of the directory that should be created and will contain a
number of JPEG files and a WAV file for the audio of the title sequence after the
program is done. Personally, I usually use the name title (short and to-the-
point).

-m mode
Specify either pal or ntsc, depending on whether you are creating a PAL or NTSC
DVD. NTSC is an American TV standard, PAL is usually used in Europe and other
parts of the world.

-i image
If you specify this option, you can supply the filename of an image in any format
that the ImageMagick suite understands, and that image will be displayed in the
background of your DVD menu. The image will be displayed in its original format,
unless you specify the -s option (see below).

A PAL menu is 720 pixels wide and 576 pixels in height. An NTSC menu is 720 pixels
wide and 480 pixels in height. The aspect ratio of either is not exactly 4:3, but
is close enough.

If your picture is larger than the resolution of the menu itself, it will be scaled
down (keeping the aspect ratio intact) to fit on the screen. If your picture does
not have the same dimensions as the menu and leaves borders, the color of those
borders can de determined using the -b option (see below).

-s This option may only be specified if you specify the -i option as well. Otherwise,
the program will complain and abort.

This option, if specified, causes the image that was specified using the -i option
to be scaled to the size of the menu itself (making it as large as possible without
any pixels falling off any edge). If your picture is not the same shape as the
menu and leaves borders, the color of those borders can de determined using the -b
option (see below).

-b background
Using this option, you can determine the color of the background of the menu that
is not covered by the optional image that may be supplied using the -i option. If
the -i option is not used, this option determines the color of the entire
background.

The color must be in the format rgb, #rgb, rrggbb or #rrggbb. The latter is the
same color notation as is used on the web. Examples are:

000000 Black
000088 Dark blue
0000ff Bright blue
008800 Dark green
00ff00 Bright green
880000 Dark red
ff0000 Bright red
008888 Dark cyan
00ffff Bright cyan
880088 Dark magenta
ff00ff Bright magenta
888800 Brown
ffff00 Yellow
888888 Grey
ffffff White

There are numerous color choosers out on the web, one of which is
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Using the color chooser, you
can pick any color you like.

As you can see from the syntax of the argument, the hash sign (#) is optional. If
you want to use the hash sign, be sure to place the entire color specification in
single or doubles quotes, because the hash sign can confuse some shells: they think
the hash sign is the start of a comment, causing the rest of your command line to
be ignored, causing an error because the -b will not have an argument in this case.

-a audio
Using this option, you may supply the filename of an audio file to use in the menu.
May be an MP3 file, a WAV file or anything else that mplayer can play without
needing extra options.

If you use audio in the menu, this will open up the possibility of using animated
picture-in-picture versions of the movies in the menu (see the -n option below).
If you do not supply an audio file, this will not be possible to use animated
picture-in-picture versions, only static images or no previews at all (again, see
the -n option below).

-n animation
Using this option, you can tell the program what kind of menu you would like to
create. The possible arguments are none (which will cause a menu to be created
that will have no previews of the movies, but will only display the background
color/image, the titles of the movies and the navigation buttons), static (which
will cause a menu to be created that will display a preview image of each movie,
but that is not animated) and animated (which is only possible if you supply an
audio file using the -a option, see above, and which will cause a menu to be
created that will display picture-in-picture animated previews of the movies).

If you don't specify this option, the default will be to use animated if you
supplied an audio track to be used and static if there is no audio.

DIAGNOSTICS

If this program is called with a incorrect set of parameters, it will print a diagnostic
message telling the user what went wrong. Also, it will then print its usage information,
listing all the options and their meanings.

The program tells you what it is doing while it is running.

EXAMPLE

The command line that I use most often is:

movie-make-title-simple -o title -m pal \
-i background.jpg -s -a nice_music.mp3

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