DVD with Intor sreen/play button/background

Aerie wrote on 11/25/2004, 11:03 AM
I am tryin to make DVD, I tried to follow the intstuctions, but timeline part is confusing, everytime I drag my rendered file on time line it replaces menu and background, means, when I burn DVD it starts directly my project without any intro screen.
So all I want now in my DVD that at least 5 second should be there blank or with baccground or a play button to start main project,
I am using DVD Arch.2, and I rendered in Vegas 5.
Please instuct me.
Thanks-
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Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/25/2004, 5:20 PM
I'm not quite sure what you are finding difficult. My guess is that you are dragging your video to the wrong place in DVDA. You need to drag it ONTO the menu screen that is created by default.

Follow these steps.

Start a new project. in DVDA

File->New- Menu based.

You now have a basic menu screen.

The easiest way to get your video onto the menu is to simply find it in the explorer window and DOUBLE-CLICK it. As long as the Menu page just created is displayed it will automatically add the video onto the Menu.

Alternatively.

Drag the video file (AVI or MPEG rendered using Vegas) into your menu. If you click the video (and let go of the mouse) the video will start to play in the Preview window. Ignore that - and simply start dragging the video and the preview will stop - and your menu page will be displayed.

I am guessing that you have been dragging your video to the wrong place. It is possible to drag it into the "project overview/tree view" on the left side of the display. If you drag the video to the top of the display it will be inserted before your menu page rather than <onto it>.

I hope that helps. Try again.
Aerie wrote on 11/26/2004, 11:29 AM
Liam Thanks for suggestion.
Ok, I did as you have asked me to do, I am telling you what is happening in the time line, what ever I click the fille it shows up in manue pages but the last file I click that shows up in timeline. so what ever it shows in timeline gets burn when I burn my dvd.
And timlelind shows only 2 traucks, one:video and another audio, I can't insert any other truck on the timeline. and I can see all the buttons, like insert subtitle/ or insert audio truck like these, but they are dimmed not highlighted to use, so when I click one of them it doesn't work, so I think this is the problem,
suppose I would like to place my intro media first where it's shoing the company name or ... and then my shortfilm medial file, but if I place indro media and then if i try to place movie media, movie media replaces intro midia,
I think my problem is time line
I just intstalled this software day before, and the computer i am useing isn't connected with internet, but i did registere through another computer, the sent me the registered code numbers and that is how it's working now, but the way timeline is working it seems my software is not functionning properly.
thanks.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/26/2004, 11:46 AM
There is really "no timeline" (in the Vegas sense at least) in DVDA. What you are seeing is simply the video/audio tracks for the specific video that you have dragged into the project.

Have you actually burned a DVD or are you simply thinking it will only play the video and not the menu?

If you followed my instructions exactly - you would find the DVD will play correctly (click the Preview/Disk option in the toolbar - to confirm exactly how it will play when burned).

I don;t understand what you mean when you say you have this last file that you load in? If you drag that file onto the menu page - just like my instructions - it will work just like it should.

It sounds like you are terribly confused here. Especially when you bring up this thing about the "intro media". You never mentioned that before. The Intro media is something that you set to make a particular video be the "first play" video in a DVD.

If you follow my instructions specifically for dragging the movies into the Menu you WILL NOT have any problems. What else are you doing that you are not telling us about? I feel that you MUST be doing somethign else.

The fact that you mention this "intro" media thing makes me believe you are inserting the video using the "insert intro media" option. You ONLY need to do that for the one video that you want to be an intro media. AND for the time being - as you are so messed up - just don't do that for now. Try a simpler setup first. Get a menu to work with your video and then get the

Perhpas you should view one of the DVDA seminars that Sony did at this years NAB conference in Las Vegas. The SCVUG (me and a few others) captured the seminar and made it available to the Vegas community. View it here

I don't believe you have a bad install of DVDA. You are simply doing something wrong.

If you want me to check how your DVDA project is messed up - just send it to me (the .DRA file). Liam AT ImageBEAM DOT com

Good luck.