In my search for some additional templatesfor V10PrE, and trying to learn more about their creation, I have come to a couple of conclusions. After reading Steves info, another forums poster ATR, and some white papers, and tutorials, I realize that one has to be fairly proficient in using PS CS or similar, be vary patient with making mistakes, and endless dead ends, crashing PrE 10, or repeated redundant info.
So here is what I have found out, and may be helpful to others. As I have grown mostly on the elements series, after numerous installs, upgrades, and total system installs, from version 2, 6, 9 and now 10 of Premier, there are some simple things that can be done.
- First of all, I notice that some of the versions as they have moved up, have left behind some interesting DVD Menu templates. So how to recover them. Simply copy from a previous version 4,9 - the Main Menu PSD and the Scene Menu PSD, and it's associated en_US_ ----mm/sm.png into a new personal folder/subfolder created in the V10 DVD template folder. Even though you copy all three versions: standard, widescreen, HD, I have not discovered why only one version will show up. If only SD/WD is copied, that SD seems to show in the DVD menus in PrE10, or all three formats, that HD only shows. A closer comparison of the existing V10 template structure is in order, and more discovery is required.
- Also, if its a multi-menu that is copied, with it's associated mp3 file, it seems to play fine in V10 preview system. Haven't experimented with video yet, or actually burning a project to disc, yet.
- Using PS CS[6], the info seems to be as outlined in the white paper I read, but seems cryptic as to how to change the layers with in layers info to reroute/customize the menu structure of the template. It seems easier to used the pre-established info from a past version of PrE, and modify it in the DVD Menu creation area of PrE V10.
Any one who would like to pursue this, I would be happy to help out, make suggestions, and comment/experiment on what is going on in V10, and how we can create some new, personal templates, related to the work we do as individuals.
Any one interested?