DVDA2 Frustrations....

GmElliott wrote on 9/29/2004, 5:58 PM
Finally dug into DVDA2 for the first time tonight. Trying to finish up a wedding on DVD and just wanted to do a simple static menu. With a chapter selections page(s), and "extras".

Anyway firt off DVDA2 will NOT preview on external monitor. I have absolutly no problems what so ever with Vegas 5 in this respect but for some reason DVDA2 will not do it.
Earlier in the night I went back to Vegas just to make sure it wasn't something wrong with my DV camera I'm using...nope worked fine. Went back into DVDA2....boom it was working all of the sudden.

I figure ok...just a minor glitch...it didn't detect it at first. No problem.... I do some more work in DVDA2 then save and close out to go back into photoshop for some more graphic work. Go BACK into DVDA2 about 20 minutes later and I cannot get it to preview to external monitor again. Now it won't do it no matter what I do....even going to Vegas and back like I did originally doesn't fix it. GRRRRR!




2nd Problem- I right click on the media in my project and choose "insert" sceen selection menu. By default it makes links with images and text. I just want text so I delete the thumbnails. I label all the links with text and use the align tools to line them up. I chose "underline" to be my highlight style and when I go to "preview" the menu all the text buttons aren't aligned. Even though when I'm NOT in preview mode they are perfect. I'm thinking it has something to do with the text box that surround the text but I haven't figured out how to fix it so they all align perfectly! Doh! Never thought DVDA2 would be such a pain.

Comments

wobblyboy wrote on 9/29/2004, 6:41 PM
It's not when you figure it out.
johnmeyer wrote on 9/29/2004, 7:01 PM
Anyway firt off DVDA2 will NOT preview on external monitor.

Workaround to External preview stopped working

I chose "underline" to be my highlight style and when I go to "preview" the menu all the text buttons aren't aligned. Even though when I'm NOT in preview mode they are perfect.

This may or may not help, but make sure, before you align the edges that you left align the text. These are two similar, but separate operations. The left align actually aligns the text within the cell on the screen; the alignment tools actually only align the cells. You have to do both. The text alignment within the cell is done by clicking on the alignment icons on the toolbar beneath the main project window. The alignment of the cells themselves is done with the icons to the left of that same project window.
bStro wrote on 9/30/2004, 7:59 AM
By default it makes links with images and text. I just want text so I delete the thumbnails.

Would probably better if you right-click the link(s) and choose Object Style -> Text Only. Less chance of accidentally deleting the links themselves. Also, if you later chose to have thumbnails after all, you won't have to hunt down the graphics -- you just change the button style again.

Rob
bStro wrote on 9/30/2004, 9:12 AM
The external monitor issue has apparently been fixed in the 2.0b update, just released today. Haven't downloaded and tested it yet.

Rob