DVD Slide Show Chapters

JJKizak wrote on 9/2/2010, 4:52 AM

My buddy asked me this and I didn't know but he has a slide show DVD where the presenter hits "next" on the remote to advance to the next slide thus enabling infinitely variable timing on viewing the slide which sometimes takes 5 minutes to answer questions. I assume there is a chapter point on every slide. Is that the case?
JJK

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AGB Productions wrote on 9/2/2010, 12:46 PM

This sounds more like PowerPoint ...?

rs170a wrote on 9/2/2010, 1:43 PM

Exactly what I was thinking.
There are times (and this is one of them) that a DVD isn't the best solution.
Sorry Vegas :-)

Mike

Earl_J wrote on 9/2/2010, 8:38 PM

I had a briefing on a 12-year timeline with text at each major event over the entire timeline ...
I put the entire timeline image into Vegas and used the preview function to get it on the big screen in the conference room where the briefing was held ...
I now have this single endless image on the big screen that I can zoom in on to highlight all the pieces at any point along the entire timeline ... now, that's something PP can't do ... (grin)

I had other pieces in still image format there as well... all I did was move the Vegas timeline cursor to the next image in preview mode and up it pops ... which I can also zoom and pan...
It's great for maps ... zooming in and out in real time, better and smoother than Goggle! (grin)

Until that time ... Earl J.

Former user wrote on 9/3/2010, 5:52 AM

Create each slide as a MENU with no visible buttons.

Program it so if the NEXT button is hit, it goes to the next menu.

If the PREVIOUS button is hit, it goes to the previous menu.

Once you set up the initial menu, then you can copy and post the button attributes.

Dave T2

JJKizak wrote on 9/3/2010, 8:32 AM

Thanks.
JJK

Earl_J wrote on 9/3/2010, 6:38 PM

Ingenious!

JJKizak wrote on 9/4/2010, 4:58 AM

Are there any limits to how many menus?
JJK

Former user wrote on 9/4/2010, 5:34 AM

I believe you can have 99 menus, but each menu can have 99 submenus.

You might do a google check, but I think that is the way it works.

And just FYI, this is how I made it work.

I made 4 buttons, one at the top of the screen, one in the middle and one each left and right of the middle button. Each time I go to a new menu, I force it to land on the MIDDLE button. The middle button does nothing. I made the other buttons AUTO ACTIVATE. When I hit the RIGHT ARROW , it highlights (not visible of course) the button to the right of the middle which is auto activated to go to the next menu. Same for the left arrow, auto activated to go to the previous menu. If I hit the UP button, it goes to the top button which auto activates back to a MAIN MENU. The trick is to make each button invisitible for action.

HTH

Dave T2