I've spent today implementing some live-action shots onto animated menus for the FR3 DVD, and it's gone along relatively smoothly. I may make a tutorial on the matter for Rootclip at some point, but the basic process entails shooting against a blue- or green-screen, then keying out and using cropping- and angling- keyframes to generate proper movement (accompanied by masks of the menu setting, as needed).
I've been saving all audio (other than music) to record at the very end, but I'm very close to having finished picture on at least two of the menus, as well as a pre-disc clip. But now I'm beginning to think about Easter Eggs... I believe I know what options I've got for making them, but I haven't decided what trigger to use. If I simply make an invisible button, users on computers will be able to hunt the egg out with the mouse and spoil the fun! But if I force viewers to punch in a trigger combination -- say, up, down, up, left -- it may be too tricky and complicated, and waste the egg by never being found! A third option is to make the trigger an unused button pressed DURING another video -- for instance, the subtitle button pressed during PIRATE MOVIE, skipping the rest of the film and jumping straight to a new, hidden feature. My fourth option is to cause the egg only to play if, say, the same film or feature is watched twice in a row -- unlikely to happen by accident, yet simple enough to do. Such a puzzle...
Regardless, I'll probably leave a hint lying around on one of the menus or the box art. Or maybe I've left one already... ;)
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