Youtube Clone Script

The most exciting part comes. After all the preparation work finishes, it is time for free DIY. The new menu template named “Happy Family” has been added and all components that are mentioned in Tab.2 are in the wings.

Most of works can be done within xml file, and the new added xml file is attached for references (Take the new added “Happy Family” as an example):

xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″

menu id=”menu” name=”Happy Family”, background_image=”background.jpg”, background_audio=”background.mp3″, title_text=”Family Love” title_font=”Arial” title_font_size=”55″ title_color=”$0d4600″ title_x=”350″ title_y=”42″ duration=”30″

buttons id=”buttons” text_align=”center” text_color=”$0d4600″ font=”Arial” font_size=”14″

button x0=”261″ y0=”100″ w0=”158″ h0=”119″
x1=”261″ y1=”100″ w1=”158″ h1=”119″
x2=”266″ y2=”106″ w2=”146″ h2=”107″
x3=”261″ y3=”220″ w3=”155″ h3=”15″

button x0=”491″ y0=”100″ w0=”158″ h0=”119″
x1=”491″ y1=”100″ w1=”158″ h1=”119″
x2=”496″ y2=”106″ w2=”146″ h2=”107″
x3=”491″ y3=”220″ w3=”155″ h3=”15″

button x0=”261″ y0=”260″ w0=”158″ h0=”119″
x1=”261″ y1=”260″ w1=”158″ h1=”119″
x2=”266″ y2=”266″ w2=”146″ h2=”107″
x3=”261″ y3=”380″ w3=”155″ h3=”15″

button x0=”491″ y0=”260″ w0=”158″ h0=”119″
x1=”491″ y1=”260″ w1=”158″ h1=”119″
x2=”496″ y2=”266″ w2=”146″ h2=”107″
x3=”491″ y3=”380″ w3=”155″ h3=”15″

button x0=”485″ y0=”410″ w0=”35″ h0=”38″
x2=”487″ y2=”408″ w2=”32″ h2=”36″
button x0=”610″ y0=”410″ w0=”35″ h0=”38″
x2=”612″ y2=”408″ w2=”32″ h2=”36″
buttons
/menu

Note: The button properties are arranged according to the video button orders (from left to right, from top to bottom). The last two button properties are the pagebutton properties.

Let’s specify the menu template and other properties (Tab 3—Tab 5):

Tab.3: Menu Template Properties

Tab.4: Menu Button Properties

Tab.5: Button Coordinate Properties

Some useful tips you may need during the DIY:
1. Unsatisfied with the menu title, including text, text size, display position, color etc.
In this case, you can make some changes to the menu title properties:
title_text=”Family Love” title_font=”Arial” title_font_size=”55″ title_color=”$0d4600″ title_x=”350″ title_y=”42″ duration=”30″>
For instance, you may change the text from “My DVD” to “Family Love”, size to “55”, the coordinate “x” value to “350”.

2. The bad arrangement of video buttons
In this case, users just need to change the X values. For instance, the menu has four video buttons, two at each line. The third and fourth buttons are not aligned with the first and second buttons, and then users need to change the X values (x0—x3) of the first and second video button properties.
button x0=”261″ y0=”100″ w0=”158″ h0=”119″
x1=”261″ y1=”100″ w1=”158″ h1=”119″
x2=”266″ y2=”106″ w2=”146″ h2=”107″
x3=”261″ y3=”220″ w3=”155″ h3=”15″

For instance, you may change the first button X properties value to “261”, “261”, ”266”, ”261” and the second button properties value to “491”, “491”, “496”, “491” to be consistent with the third and fourth button X properties respectively.

Note: The values of the “w1” and “h1” should be the same with the width and height of “video.png”.

3. The new added menu template can’t be found in the program.
For this issue, Part Three Tutorial (“Add DIY Movie Menu to the Program”) will help you out.

When you have learnt how to DIY the template.xml, then you have at least half done. In the next tutorial, you will learn how to add the DIY menu to the program.

Now, download Sothink Free Movie Maker to DIY family video disc menu.

We introduce the preparation of movie menu DIY in the last part of the guide. Now, the most interesting part comes–the editing of xml file. This part is also provided by Brian Harbaugh. The official tutorial about the movie menu DIY will come soon.

TEMPLATE.XML has many parts and is the most important file. It can be created or modified from an existing template. The format is very important! Also all syntax must be used! Be careful not to remove any “<” or “>” or “/”. Just change the numerical values between the double quotes. If you want to remove or add a button section, keep a blank line between them. I am using the “Classic Black” xml as an example. The first line MUST be

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

to work with the program.
The second line is

<menu id=”menu” background_image=”background.jpg” background_audio=”background.mp3″ title_text=”My DVD” title_font=”Arial” title_font_size=”48″ title_color=”$FFFFFF” title_x=”70″ title_y=”40″ duration=”30″>

“menu id= menu” is recognized by the program and should NOT be changed. The second part would be, in my example named, name= “MINE”. Also if you copied your picture into this directory you would have to change it to the background_image=name or rename your picture to background.jpg and the same with the audio. The rest can be changed in the DVD Menu section by double clicking on Font but the line must have a default value! The title “My DVD” can be changed in the DVD Menu along with all the fonts and sizes. The title_x= and title_y= value is where you want the “My DVD” to appear. X would be side to side placement and y would be top to bottom placement. Duration is how long the mp3 will play in seconds before restarting. All these parameters still must have a default starting value!

The next line is very very important! It is

<buttons id=”buttons” text_align=”center” text_color=”$FFFFFF” font=”Arial” font_size=”14″ >

Buttons are defined below, which will be described in a moment, the text _align=”center” will center any text from the DVD Menu Button text below your inserted video. You can also use left or right if you prefer. Text_color, font, and font_size can also be changed here from the program but default values must be supplied.

After a blank line the “button” will be how many different files you will add to your menu before going to the “next screen”. After each “button” a blank line should be added. For example if you look at the Album template, you will see four “button” areas. If you look at Classic Black, you will see six button areas.

Each of the “button”s will have four lines with four parameters:
x0= the side to side start position of the file you add
y0= the top to bottom start position of the file you add
w0= the width of the file added
h0= the height of the file added
x1= the side to side start position of the frame surrounding your file that was added
y1= the top to bottom start position of the frame surrounding your file that was added
w1= the width of the frame
h1= the hieight of the frame
x2= the side to side start position of the highlight frame to select the file to play
y2= the top to bottom start position of the highlight frame to select the file to play
w2= the width of the highlight frame
h2= the height of the highlight frame
x3= the button text side to side start position, if any, added from the program
y3= the button text top to bottom start position, if any, added from the program
w3= the width of the button text
h3= the height of the button text

The remaing two “button”s are the previous and next buttons respectively that appear if you add more files than the number of buttons from above, Album would have four and if you add another file, you will see the next icon appear and if you click on it, it will change to another blank area where you can add more files and you will see prev.

Once again, the first one is “previous”, the following one is “next”
x0= the side to side position where you want the prev.png or next.png to appear
y0= the top to bottom position where you want the prev.png or next.png to appear
w0= the width of the .png
h0= the height of the .png
x2= the side to side position of the select highlight
y2= the top to bottom position of the select highlight
w2= the width position of the select highlight
h2= the height position of the select highlight

The last line of your xml must be

</menu>

Start your program and see if menu name appears. You should not have any problem.
At this point you can go to your Temp directory and cut and paste all templates back into your Templates directory and after you restart the program, you will have all templates available for use.

Why not have a try of  this Free DVD Creator and DIY stylish movie menu? You can also refer to the complete version of movie menu DIY.

Thank Brian Harbaugh for the excellent tutorial about the movie menu DIY. The official tutorial will come soon.

This document is to create your own template with Sothink Movie DVD Maker. Creating your own templates, besides the ones that are already given, is a relatively easy thing to do. I use to use version 3.5 and it accepted new entries without problems with Windows XP. In my example I am using Windows 7. This can be done with any other version of Windows, but the paths to the directories may change.

In C:\Program Files(x86)\SourceTec\Sothink Movie DVD Maker\Templates?the directory where the program is placed? right click NEW and FOLDER and name it MINE. There MUST be 9 (nine) files created for the process to work. You may cut and paste from existing templates you pasted to Temp if needed. Size of files is important, names are not so important!

Nine files are needed will be shown at Tab.1:

Tab.1 Files needed to be prepared

The first file is by default is named background.jpg. It can be any jpeg picture you have, but the smaller the better. It will automatically stretch to fit the background menu. The bigger the jpeg, the less space for video quality! You can change the name in the DVD Menu section by changing BG image path to whatever you have your selected picture named, (flower.jpg). It still must be copied into this directory.

The second file is background.mp3. You also may want an mp3 to play during video selection. Once again size is important, but this file is not really necessary. This file is about 15-180 seconds in length at 128 kbps/44 kHz. The path can be also changed in DVD Menu BG audio.

The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth files are also not that important unless you are planning to have multiple menu screens for your videos. They are next.png, next.wmf, prev.png, and prev.wmf. These files are basically just pictures to click on to go to the next screen or backtrack to the previous screen.

These can be created with Microsoft Paint or copied from other templates if you like the pictures. You may need a WMF editor.

The next two files are video.png and video.wmf. They are used to frame your file that you ADD and as a menu selector. They also can be created with Microsoft Paint or your favorite WMF editor. The size of these files will be discussed in the TEMPLATE.XML which is the most important part of your template creation which I reserved for last as it will be the most detailed.

Most exciting part about the edition of xml file will be explained in “Concise Guide of Movie Menu DIY (2)”.

DIY really brings much fun, why not  try this Free Movie Maker–Sothink Movie DVD Maker to DIY your own stylish movie menu?

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Introduction

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The Trend of HTML5

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