Button or Menu apperence time

mm2k wrote on 12/2/2003, 10:07 PM
Can anyone tell me how to get your motion background to play without the buttons displayed at the same time & shortly have the buttons show to make a selection. Many commercial DVD's will play certain content that want you to see before you have the option to press any buttons. If you try to press a button the DVD payer will just say function not allowed at this time.

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Fuzzy John wrote on 12/3/2003, 10:10 AM
Have you thought of doing the "buttonless" portion as an intro?
mm2k wrote on 12/3/2003, 1:44 PM
Please elaborate "Buttonless" protion as intro.
Fuzzy John wrote on 12/3/2003, 5:40 PM
Create a video track that has all the motion up to just before the menu buttons appear. You render this track and load it in DVDA as an Intro clip. This clip will play when you insert the DVD and before the menu appears.
mm2k wrote on 12/3/2003, 8:02 PM
FuzzyJohn I understand that, now lets say I want the same thing to happen every time a button is pressed to go from menu to menu. So button is pressed - new menu plays with buttons visible - motions in background footage ends to a still screen - now buttons appear. How do I do that?
jetdv wrote on 12/4/2003, 6:20 AM
Right now, you don't.
mm2k wrote on 12/4/2003, 8:49 PM
Any suggestions of software that can do this? I have a wedding videography biz and its improtant that I have footage play before buttons appear. This is just one of my request of the software.
jetdv wrote on 12/5/2003, 6:46 AM
I suspect that DVDA will be able to in a future version but, for now, look for any program that supports "End Actions".

I have a wedding videography biz and its improtant that I have footage play before buttons appear.
This has never been an issue on my wedding DVDs - what's important is that YOU want the footage to play before the buttons appear. I just let the moving video loop BEHIND the links (and I change them to text only).
JSWTS wrote on 12/5/2003, 1:11 PM
You can do this with ReelDVD and Encore. DVD-Lab has some nice features, but it has had issues with disc compatibility and if you are doing this for a business, I wouldn't risk it. ReelDVD is the most mature of the products in DVD-A's price range, and is rock solid (it's compiling engine is the same as Scenarist, which is the defacto Hollywood standard).

Jim
mm2k wrote on 12/5/2003, 10:56 PM
Thank you JSWTS. I want to blur the lines between a hollywood DVD and one created from work I crafted. There has to be some higher standard seperating people who say they DO business and people who say they CAN do business.