Autoplay next title?

sly001 wrote on 4/21/2003, 7:05 AM
Created DVD with several Video Objects (separate titles) on a menu. When the 1st title finishes, DVD returns to the main menu. How do I make it autoplay the next title - and can I set this on a "per title" basis (like in ULead DVD Workshop)?

Also - when DVD loads, I get the menu ------ forever. Can I set a "timeout" for the DVD to start the 1st title automatically after x-seconds?

Comments

tlparker wrote on 4/21/2003, 9:03 AM
Apparently no can do with DVDA. Which is amazing, considering I can do it easily with the FREE version of "myDVD" that came with my DVD burner. Oh, but you do have an AC-3 encoder. Feel better now? Don't like to be this sarcastic, but I'm pretty darn frustrated after shelling out the dough for Vegas+DVD and not being able to create DVD menus that the software included with my $280 AO5 burner can. It would appear that you are expected to create the entire DVD as one single piece of video in Vegas and use Vegas to mark chapter points for playing portions of the entire video. (And I'm not recommending Mydvd, it's very rudimentary and is lacking in many ways -- but you expect that from cheap/free software)
swattum wrote on 4/21/2003, 11:23 AM
DVDA doesn't let you specify an end action for a clip, but what you can do is using Vegas, combine all of the clips into a single large movie and then as I learned on this board a few days ago, simply bring the movie into DVDA multiple times and set in points for each of the individual clips. If you don't specify an out point then the movie will continue to play to the end.

As far as the menu goes, sorry, no timer or end action.
BillyBoy wrote on 4/21/2003, 12:30 PM
Deliberately being sarcastic... don't you know a few blowhards will whine its only version one. Yack, yack yack. Don't you dare critize SoFo. Yack, yack. yack.

The fact is the first version of DVD-A does indeed lack some BASIC features, much cheaper, even FREE DVD Authoring software includes. I would wager SoFo is painfully aware of it too. Its only a few apologists making all the noise.

Those defending such obvious oversights in what is being sold as a "professional" grade package with a price to match look as ridiculous as supporting a car dealer selling cars without tires, implying they're an option or other such sillness.
videoman69 wrote on 4/22/2003, 9:39 AM
But it's not like there isn't other DVD apps out there.
If MyDVD does what you need to do then use that.
If DVD-A does not do it then quit using it until it
does. I eagerly awaited DVD-A and hoped it would have
all the "professional" features I would need. Well it
does not and now I am awaiting Adobe Encore. If Encore
does not have it then hello DVDSP 2.0 and a new Mac.