End actions at end of menu

dxdy wrote on 10/25/2010, 10:22 AM
In DVDA 5.2, I have a 3 menu DVD project. All videos burned from the same MainConcept MPEG2 template in Vegas Pro 10.

There are 2 videos on the first page, 4 on the second, and 4 on the third. I have set the order, and set the button order, and have gone into each video and set the end action to the next video.

As I play the video on my Sony DVD player, it hangs at the end of the last video on the menu page. So on page 2, #4 plays automatically after #3, and #5 plays after number #4, and #6 plays after #5, but #7 won't start - the screen just goes black. #7 is the first video on the next submenu. This despite the end action of #6 being set to play #7.

I have had this occur on two separate projects.

Any ideas what I might be missing?

Comments

jetdv wrote on 10/25/2010, 11:31 AM
I do things differently. I create ONE file instead of 11 and then put a series of chapter points on the various menus. There's multiple advantages to this including:

1. I don't have to worry about end actions
2. the "Previous Chapter" button will work even if it's in a previous section
3. No pauses between sections that you get when using multiple files.
etc...
dxdy wrote on 10/25/2010, 3:35 PM
I see your point(s), very clever, but doesn't that make for a really long render? In my case, I have about 10 segments of 6 - 8 minutes each. I guess I can work on each of them independently, and then when the client is all happy do a master render by nesting the individual veg files into a parent veg.

Thanks for the tip.

Fred
dxdy wrote on 10/26/2010, 3:40 AM
Is my face red!

It turns out my "issue" was sloppy editing in Vegas. I reported that end actions for the last video on a submenu were not working - the first video on the next submenu was not playing, just a black screen.

Well, the black screen turned out to be 90 seconds of "dead air" at the end of each of the two videos that were last on their respective submenus.

By coincidence, both of these videos (one at the end of each of the submenus) had a muted audio track that ran past the end of the visual events. So DVDA was just playing out the black frames created by the Vegas render, as it should, and eventually it did jump to the first video on the next submenu..

Sloppy editing and too little patience during the replay.

Sorry for the alarm.
dan-hedrick wrote on 10/26/2010, 5:43 AM
We've all "been there."

lcdrdan
TLF wrote on 10/28/2010, 12:15 AM
And the good news is you won't need to re-render the files.

Double click each of the problem files in DVDA so that they open up on their own DVDA timetime. Then just drag the end marker to where you need it.

Problem solved. The 'dead space' won't play in the DVD, but does still exist in the project.