how do i change thumbnail pictures in scene selection?

adihead wrote on 6/28/2004, 8:06 AM
new at this. first time trying to create a dvd.
i managed to create a scene selection menu. as default, the picture shown within each scene button, is a thumbnail picture of the first frame of the scene the button is representing.

this creates a problem in a situation where the scene begins with black, therefore the button representing that particular scene will show a black picture. how can i select a different frame from that particular scene to be represented in the button?

thanks.

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[r]Evolution wrote on 6/29/2004, 12:05 PM
Anyone?
bStro wrote on 6/29/2004, 12:16 PM
When answering questions here, if I've got a lot to do, I (and most people) generally answer the ones that are not clearly answered by DVDA's online help. This one is.

Open DVDA's Help and search for thumbnail.

Rob
adolgin wrote on 7/4/2004, 4:20 PM
Actually, I spent frustrating hours looking for the answer to this in both online help and on the forums. Sony removed a handy feature that worked well in DVDA1.
Here is my original post on the Cow, with quick help from Edward on the workaround.
" I am working on a menue for the chaptered DVD (DVDA2). After marking the chapter points, am trying to define the thumbnails, by grabbing a frame on the timeline. The command "Set Menue Thumbnails" (or a "T" shortcut) is nowhere to be found. Was it removed in the DVD2? Is there a different way of doing it?
HTH
Alex Dolgin "
"Yes it was removed and yes there is still a way. Click on the thumbnail and look at all of the selections on the right side. One of them is the thumbnail offset. Just put in the proper timecode and you can change it for whatever frame you wish.

Edward Troxel"
johnmeyer wrote on 7/4/2004, 5:02 PM
Thumbnail Icon
bStro wrote on 7/4/2004, 5:26 PM
Actually, I spent frustrating hours looking for the answer to this in both online help and on the forums.

It's on page 45 & 46 of the manual.

Rob
adolgin wrote on 7/5/2004, 5:48 AM
Rob, your attempt to help really puzzles me. I am very familiar with the DVD1 way of doing it, and naturally was looking for the same or similar way of defining the thumbnails. Unlike some users, I do read the manuals, in this case there was no mentioning of the established way of defining the thumbnails. FYI, the post just above yours links to the long thread by users like me, disappointed with the awkward new way of getting there. Obviously to me, the new version of DVDA makes this task more difficult than the old one.
bStro wrote on 7/5/2004, 9:00 AM
I am very familiar with the DVD1 way of doing it, and naturally was looking for the same or similar way of defining the thumbnails.

You may have been "looking for the same or similar way of defining the thumbnails" as in DVDA1, but the original poster said he was completely new to this. So how DVDA1 did thumbnails is completely irrelevant to his question.

The point of my previous post was not to "help" you; It was to was to show you that the original poster's question is easily answered by looking in the manual.

What puzzles me is why you're using your experience (trying to compensate for a missing feature -- one that the original poster never had in the first place) to make it appear that the answer to his question is harder to find than it is.

Rob