I want a menu. I have three menu pages with three chapters on each menu page. I want to be able to click on the first chapter of the first menu and have it play all the dvd. Or I want to be able to click on any chapter and have it play all the chapters that come afterwards.
I am using DVDA 4.5
I think this has to do with playlist but I can't seem to figure it out

Okay. I have figured out that by putting a play all button on menu page it will play the three chapters on that menu but will not advance to the next menu. How do I get it to keep playing past the first menu?

This might help -

double click on your button (one that plays a clip). Go to the end action properties. Change the destination to the video & destination item to the proper chapter, if applicable.

that should do it.

As above, set the END ACTION.
That's all it takes!

a playlist would be for a button on a page that plays all where don't want/need menu's at all. :)

Thanks Folks. I think I got it figured out. I started burning it and it says it will take over 30 hours to burn it!! Holy Crap! The last dvd I burned took 6.5 hours and only had about 2.5GB but did successfully burn and was playable. This is definitely not normal. I am using an external sony dvd burner. I am 19 hours into it and 96% complete so I don't dare stop it at this point. However, There has gotta be a faster way of doing this.

I normally take ~5 minutes to burn a full disc @ 4x. Sounds like you've got issues somewhere.

My experience is nearer to 15 mins, but nothing like several hours.

Mike

Well, first confirm whether this absurdly long amount of time is for DVDA to burn the project, or if it is in fact rendering during this time. (It's actually encoding, but DVDA calls it "rendering" -- so, when in Rome...)

If it is in fact in the "burn" stage, then you have a hardware problem of some kind, because there is no way a DVD could take anywhere near that long to burn if everything's working okay. If anything, I'd say that your computer says it's burning, but it's not. Were there any lit or blinking lights on your DVD burner at this time? If not, it wasn't doing anything.

If DVDA is actually rendering or preparing during this 30 hour marathon (or even during that 6.5 hour stint), there is something about the files you put in your project that requires DVDA to do a lot of work to put them into proper DVD format. Re-Open that project and go to File > Optimize Disc. Do you see all green checkmarks on the left or are there exclamation points? Exclamation points mean that DVDA has to encode your files because they are not DVD compliant.

That 2.5 GB project you had -- what format and codec did your source files use? For best results, if you are making your files in Vegas, you should always render (encode) by choosing MPEG2 for the type of file and using one of the DVD Architect Video Stream templates -- if you intended to make a DVD.

Rob

Good reply Rob. It sounds like it is rendering and not burning to me. My older PC would take 8-9 hours to render a 60 minute project. I had a new machine built a couple of years ago and it renders in 55 minutes. I have never had a burn last more than 15-20 minutes. I now average 4-5 minutes.

EDIT: I should say that I use Vegas to render.