Can scene menu button serve double-duty?

rch wrote on 11/2/2012, 8:05 PM
My current DVD project contains one video clip with about 30 scenes. Since I can’t fit all 30 scene/menu items on the first (title) screen, I must use multiple menus. Is it possible to program the bottom-most scene button on a given menu so that it takes the user to the next menu simply by using the down arrow? I know I can create a submenu button that would take me to the next menu screen (pressing enter) but that seems like a waste of valuable button space.







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Former user wrote on 11/2/2012, 9:24 PM
You can by doing a trick.

Make an invisible button (I am serious, set the color set for that button where you can't see it). run it down below safe title.

And Auto Activate it. Then when you down arrow to the invisible button from the last button,it will automatically go where you have it linked.

The problem of couse is, you have to tell people it works that way, and the best way to do that is put it on on screen, which takes away valuable space.

Not trying to be a smart ***, you can do it this way, but it is better to make the menu user friendly and have a next and previous button, as well as a return to main menu button.

Dave T2
mikkie wrote on 11/12/2012, 9:40 PM
> "but that seems like a waste of valuable button space."

IMHO if you're that tight for space your menu's already too cluttered for a std. TV screen.

That said, if you add a button like DaveT2 suggests, rather than bothering with the color etc., once everything is in place & working, drag it over to the corner & reduce the size as much as possible -- that way it'll work on PCs without having to worry about the occasional mouse-over. Location is more or less irrelevant since it follows button nav order. Same sort of thing works whenever you want to hide something -- I use it on descriptive menu names/titles I want to see in the tree but not on the menus themselves.
videoITguy wrote on 11/12/2012, 10:17 PM
You can make a button the smallest size possible and drag within DVDAPro authoring system to a far corner of the screen space. But I would advise that you carefully document with written and even visual instructions where that button was eventually placed. Coming back for an edit to that screen can become problematic for revisions or opening the author project from archive years later.