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PeterDuke wrote on 3/5/2013, 9:02 PM
The end action of a clip can be set in DVDA to go to a menu or the start of a clip, including itself. A menu can be static image or a cIip that replays over and over again. Nothing ever actually stops until you press the stop button.

I think what you are asking is to automatically pause at the end of a clip and continuously play the last frame. I don't think that you can do that.
PeterDuke wrote on 3/5/2013, 9:17 PM
I hope you find a solution to your problem because I would like to be able to make a DVD slideshow of photos that doesn't automatically step on, but waits for me to use the next/previous buttons on the remote control. The best I have come up with is the Powerpoint to DVD solution I mentioned in your first thread, but it has its limitations.
videoITguy wrote on 3/5/2013, 9:18 PM
Peter is exactly right about the metaphor of the DVD standard - nothing stands absolutely still in the programming interface - you have motion, even the menus are actually turned into mini-movies, and anything static on the screen is itself created by motion. Say for example you want to hold a title for 10 linear seconds on the screen, then that represents 10 linear running seconds of motion.

Scripting allows you to do what is basic to the interface, for example I can take that 10 linear runnings seconds and turn it into 100 seconds of screen viewing time by asking that sequence to repeat x10. Just as you can push rewind and replay 10 x times. Also these kind of manipulations of time to screen have to take into account the mechanical spin of the disc and the laser tracking ... such that these more complex actions will display 'faults" as the set-top player especially cheap ones cannot handle tracking instantaneously.

Stills in the video, large amounts of menu, all add upto a lot of problematic production and handling for this medium that was not designed to do this.
FijiDVD wrote on 3/5/2013, 10:50 PM
Thanks guys. I was afraid that was the situation. Looks like I am in for "...a lot of problematic production and handling...". This is a labor of love as there isn't any money to do it. Two of us who saw how powerful this program was in classrooms have agreed to try and make it available on DVD, despite the problems. (Of course, I may change my mind after a few months of head banging. But hey, it can't be worse than the IBM-funded project where they insisted we use PCjrs; or coding for PDP-lls in octal, can it?)