help with menus

tjohara99 wrote on 11/28/2006, 11:34 PM
I'm trying to make a DVD in the style of the game "Scene It" (except it doesn't need to be random clips like how the game is)

I was wondering if you can play a clip, then after the clip is over if it can go to a brand new menu (not the root menu)

OR

Is it possible to play a cycle of clips by hitting the same play button ...ie

I would be on the root menu.
Press "play"
the clip plays out, then returns to the root menu
press "play" again, this time it plays a different clip
etc etc...
(goes through a cycle of 9 clips)

I'm really stumped on this so any help would be most appreciated!

Comments

richard-courtney wrote on 11/29/2006, 5:35 AM
Not directly with DVDA you will need programs like PGCedit or IFOedit.
You would have to use GPRMs as a "in-use" flag. As each is played, clear the flag
and change the hightlight to hide the menu item.

Not easy but can be done.

ScottW wrote on 11/29/2006, 5:53 AM
Yes, some of this is easy for pre DVDA4 releases and some of this could use scripting with DVDA4 (scripting is not available with the studiio version), though you could do it just with menus.

In your first example, you would just create all of your needed menus, then the end action of the clip in question would specify to link to a different menu (the default is to link to the most recent menu).

The second case would require either scripting or multiple menus. You create multiple menus that all look the same - the first menu specifies that you link to clip1, the end action on clip1 links to a different menu that looks the same as the first - when you press play on this new menu it takes you to clip2, etc.

--Scott
bStro wrote on 11/29/2006, 6:17 AM
If I'm understanding you correctly, you just make several menus, each with a button leading to a different clip. Then navigate into each clip and change its End Action (in the Properties window) so that its Destinatino points to the menu you want to come next.

To create the menus, right-click on the root (disc) icon in the Project Overview window and choose Insert Menu. Any of the other menu-inserting options will create submenus or menu pages, each of which is linked to another menu somehow. You want completely independent menus so that the viewer doesn't click around to menus without watching the clips first. ;-)

(Whoops. I had started to post an answer and then, while I was over in DVDA creating a sample project file, Scott beat me to it. ;) If you still have some trouble, tjohara99, click my username to send me an e-mail, and I'll send you the sample project. It uses the multiple menu method, not the scripthing method.)

Rob
GeorgeW wrote on 11/29/2006, 6:36 AM
The one thing I'm not clear about is whether the OP wants each "cycle-through" to be different (so the order of the clips/menus will vary each time the DVD is played). Like a random generator for the clips, and then the DVD will track which clip(s) have already played so it is not repeated during the current "cycle-through"