How Play 1 Scene/Chapter and Return to Main Menu?

Troy_@_TLC wrote on 12/11/2009, 11:27 AM
DVD Architect 4.5

I have added 10 buttons to the DVD menu. First button is 'Play All' and the next 9 play scenes/chapters of the video.

Play all works perfect.

Each scene button plays video from that timecode and also advance during playback from one to the next.

But the option I cannot figure out is how from the main menu to select one of the scenes, play that scene and then return to the main menu (currently it plays from that scene and continues playing until the end)?

Note: at end of video (after scene 9) it returns to main menu.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 12/11/2009, 11:57 AM
For that you'll need to trim your movie or break it into individual clips for each scene.

I don't believe you can add a stop marker mid-movie.
Former user wrote on 12/11/2009, 12:43 PM
The HELP explains how to do this.

Dave T2
bStro wrote on 12/11/2009, 4:39 PM
To find the instructions mentioned by Dave, check the manual / online help for a section titled "Adding a Scene Selection Menu" and see the part about creating one that returns to the menu after playing the selected scene.

Rob
Troy_@_TLC wrote on 12/13/2009, 6:56 PM
Thanks for the help! Made it all work, although it seems a bit tedious to insert and setup all the buttons individually vs using the scene/chapter markers.

Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services
Former user wrote on 12/15/2009, 6:16 AM
DVDA is one of the better authoring programs for handling this situation. Some of them require duplicate media, which eats up disk space, and others require complicated scripting.

Once you do it a few times. it really isn't that big of a pain.

Dave T2
bStro wrote on 12/15/2009, 8:14 AM
it seems a bit tedious to insert and setup all the buttons individually vs using the scene/chapter markers.

For what it's worth, the reason you can't do it that way is because you're not creating "chapters."

The way a DVD player returns to a menu at the end of a piece of media is by way of end actions. A chapter doesn't have end actions (since it's not a piece of media -- it's simply a bookmark within a piece of media).

Rob