Just getting things going with DVDA2 and menu transitions.

I am building a simple DVD with a Main Menu with two buttons for play the movie and go to a second menu to pick a scene.

I have added the media to play the whole movie at the highest level in the project window i.e below the project title

I have then added the media several times again and used in/out point to allow the pick a scene menu play a single chapter a time.

After creating the menus as I want them I set the preview to best and did a copy to clipboard for the main menu and the pick a scene menu with a couple of different buttons highlighted.

I then saved these to a file within Vegas with the preview window set to best

I have used these stills to do s simple transition from Main Meni -> Pick a Scene, Pick a Scene to Main Menu

I render these to .mpg and import them into DVDA at the highest level again within the project window.

I change the end actions of the media files etc so that selecting the Pick a Scene menu from the Main Menu plays the transition media with in/out points and its end action then points to the Pick a Scene menu

Everything looks good in the DVDA preview but when I play the VIDEO_TS folder in WinDVD or burn a disk and play this in a number of players the transition between menus have black outs i.e as the media changes from the transition to the destination menu there black screen for a short time.

Is this to be expectged as the DVD player has to open and switch between files?

Is this the best workflow for creating menu transitions?

TIA, Paul

PS I am workin in PAL Widescreen