In/Out Points and Scene Selection Menu

DavidPJ wrote on 6/16/2004, 5:54 PM
I'm playing with DVDA2 for the first time, so please excuse me for my ignorance for what I thought would be so simple.

I inserted a scene selection menu as described on page 34 of the DVDA2 manual. I want to set up start and end actions for each chapter that was automatically set up during the insertion of the scene selection menu.

Going to the timeline after selecting each chapter, I move the start and end points or hit start or end point. At first this seems to work, but then after the 3rd or 4th button it gets confused and the settings from my previous in/out points are wrong. Can't I adjust in/out points from the scene selection menu created in this manner?

Or, per page 35 of the manual, do I have to manually create a scene selection menu by adding text/button for each chapter and then set the in/out points on the timeline?

If this is the case, it seem like quite a laborious way of making a scene selection menu and then adding in/out points. Or maybe I'm really missing something?

On the timeline, can I just move the existing in/out points or do I have to enter them always by hitting the in/out buttons?

Thanks much!
Dave

Comments

kameronj wrote on 6/17/2004, 6:46 PM
YEah....you are missing stuff.. And you are mixing different ways to do different things.

My suggestion is just to start off with something simple and follow the manual straight through on that one point. Once you got that part down....then you can start messing around with different in/out points.

Just open a project, and insert multiple chapter points on the time line. Don't worry about in/out point. There should only be the ones at the beginner and the end.

THen Right click the movie item and choose to insert a scene select menu.

One you got that down....then you can move on to setting up different in/out points.

Once you do this - you will see it is relatively straight forward - and not very laborous at all.
SonySDB wrote on 6/18/2004, 5:37 AM
Insert scene selection menu creates buttons that only link to the movie. So, when you change the in and out points, you're essentially change the in and out point for all (because they all link to the same thing). Instead, you need to create multiple instances of the movie. (DVDA is smart only puts the media on the disc once.)

1. File | New...
2. Choose Menu based and press Ok
3. Insert | Media...
4. Choose your "movie" and press Open
5. In the project overview window, double-click your movie.
6. In the timeline window, edit chapter markers as desired
7. In the project overview window, double-click "Menu 1"
8. Insert | Submenu
9. In the workspace, select the button to your "movie"
10. Edit | Copy
11. In the workspace, double-click button for new submenu
12. Repeat Edit | Paste for each chapter point
(Depending on the number of chapter points you may want to do this on several menu pages.)
13. Move buttons to desired positions in menu
14. Double-click each button and adjust in and out point for the chapter
DavidPJ wrote on 6/18/2004, 8:59 AM
SonySDB,

Thank you for confirming the operation I experienced. This is exactly what I found. Since I also started this thread on the Vegas forum, I'll also post your repsonse there.

Dave