How can I do Play all?

Mikeeer wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:05 PM
I have a project that has 50 Mpeg2 files in it. Each is a song played by a band and they are independently rendered using Vegas 3.0 into an Mpeg 2. I want to author a DVD that has 5 sub menus off the main menu. Click on any of the 5 sub menues and it will take the viewer to sub menu page with 10 items(songs) on it. Each of the 10 items on this these sub menu pages links to an Mpeg2. I have this much figured out and functiong.

Now what I need to do is include on the main menu a "play all" selection that will play through all Mpeg 2s on the DVD in order menu1 item 1, menu 2, item 2 and so on to menu 5 item 10. How can I do this?

I also want the viewer to be able to call up a sub menu, select and Mpeg 2 and then before it is done playing hit the menu button on the DVD remote and have it take them back to the sub menu not the main menu. Right now it only goes back to the main menu and the view has to navigate back to the sub menu. How can I author the DVD to only go back to the last displayed sub menu?

Thanks
Mike

Comments

jetdv wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:24 PM
To play straight through, you have to create ONE file instead of fifty.
CrazyRussian wrote on 8/7/2003, 11:55 PM
Yeah, not duable with DVDA ATM... It's been talked over and over and over about this. If you really really dont want to re-render into one file and then use chapters and in and out points, then look into IFOEdit program. After you prepare your files, you can edit IFO file. I've seen a walkthrough on how to make all your clips play one after another by setting up Registers.
jeffcrow wrote on 8/11/2003, 11:48 AM
Check out my post in this thread: Scene Selection Menu

For your situation, where you have many individual files, the only way with this version of DVDA to make it Play All is to render all the files into one, and then use the technique I describe in that post to make the individual portions of the now larger file play with the ability to return to the scene selection menu.