MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 User Manual - page 25

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The background menu thus created could 

appear as follows:

5.4 Moving background with Akaba - 

New Concept

In this example you will learn to use the 

program Akaba - New Concept to create the 

entire background menu.

Pick an appropriate scene for a fixed image, for 

example “Bricks” from the image pool (“Type: 

Monochromatic”) and set its duration to 20 

seconds. Then start Akaba - New Concept and 

enter Drawmode.

At first, turn on the magnifying glass and select 

the color white in the palette window, click on 

the tool “open rectangle”. 

Then position the upper left corner e.g. at the 

coordinates 446,90 (displayed with the help of 

the magnifying glass) and drag the mouse to 

size the rectangle.

A medium-sized background icon for “DVD-

Arabesk 2” must be of size 102 x 96 (NTSC = 

120 x 80). Add this value to the coordinates and 

subtract 1 so that the rectangle is positioned at 

the coordinates 565, 185 (NTSC = 565, 169). 

Confirm by clicking on the left trackball key.

You have just created a window as a wall.

Then select the color green in the palette 

window and click on the closed-polygon tool.

With the help of the crosshairs ( in the 

magnifying-glass function) draw window frames 

at the left and right edges of the window.

With the selection button to the upper right 

activate the option “Drawing” and cut out the 

complete window including the frames by 

using the rectangle brush. To do this draw an 

enclosing rectangle around the object. Set the 

fuzziness to 0%, the width to 100% and click on 

the button “Stamp”.