Cunhambebe, when replying to posts, please indicate somehow what you're quoting and what is your new content. For example, the common procedure on this forum is to put quoted content in italics (do this by using the HTML tag for italics) as well as a paragraph break after the quoted text. Or even just put bracks around the quoted part.

When everything is just run together, it's a little difficult to read your posts without checking the previous replies to see who said what.

Thanks,
Rob

Hey bStro, I've just edited my reply right above. Please check it out. Hope it's intelligible this time. It's plain English, I guess. :) Anyway, thanks for the tip; in fact I've always reply the way you refer to, it's just that this time I was in a hurry :P

Thanks for responding ro_max. Let's see what you get when you burn your DVD this weekend. I'm very curious.

RO..._MAX said...lol
"I am going to try your way (several individual clips to be accessed from a main menu) on the weekend."

- Waht do you mean my way? I guess this is the regular way to create menus, isn't it? Am I wrong here?

"If you use to DVDA to create a menu on your DVD, e.g. the main menu, to be used by the viewer of the DVD and to be operated with the set-top player's remote control, then that is what I would refer to as a DVD menu."

- That's exactly what I was talking about man! How do you start a new project, fella? Don't you hit new and choose one of the options available there - Menu Based, Compilation, Single Movie, etc?????

"If, on the other hand, you have a menu, dialog box or any other user-interface part of the program DVD Architect that you use to operate the software and make a DVD with, then that is what I refer to as a DVDA menu."

- WHAT? lol - please tell me how to do that.....I guess I'm going to get crazy!

Thanks, friends.

Now, I'm not getting it anymore. ;-)

Waht do you mean my way? I guess this is the regular way to create menus, isn't it? Am I wrong here?

If you use "insert scene selection menu", DVDA will automatically create a menu page with clips, generate the appropriate links, etc. That way you don't have to do it by hand. What I meant was that I might try create a menu by adding media, links, etc. by hand (i.e. without the "insert scene selection menu" function).

DVDA menus: File, Edit, View, Insert, Options, Help, etc. used to operate the software.

DVD menus: Something you create on a DVD: e.g. Main Menu, Scene Selection, Bonus Features, Language Selection, etc.

Thanks for taking time to respond, r_max and thanks for your explanation. I'll try to follow your instructions on how to make that scene selection menu. I was just wondering why no one says anyhting about our conversation here.....Hope you burn your DVD "my way" this weekend ;)

BTW - all right, all right, now I've got what you mean by DVDA menus. Sorry, it's just that we were talking about menus and I didn't figure out you were referring to the menus in the application. Guess it would have been much easier if you had said: DVDA menus, the application main menu or the main menu in the application. LOL - LOL
I guess scene selection menu makes a little impossible to achieve my goal since I got a series of intros here as follows (as far as I know scene selection menu is for a clip, it will not work for a background media, and yes, I know you were talking about an example since you haven't got a project like my one):
1.intro movie
2.second movie;
3.main menu <shows 6 buttons>
Each button is linked to a movie that shows the screen flying away as a secondary intro for each one of the 6 clips.
I've never tried making this scene selection menu before becuase I prefer to do it manually. I'd like to suggest you do somethig, if you want and if you can, of course. Could you please send me your project file? I guess that'd be much easier. Thanks in advance. Here's my e-mail cunhambebetupinambaAThotmailDOTcom
;)
Thanks a lot and please, I hope you accept my apologies for misunderstanding your explanations. I am sorry, really...Thanks for your generosity and patience.
Cheers!
Mark

I was just wondering why no one says anyhting about our conversation here....

Well, I was going to say it's getting pretty entertaining, but I wasn't sure that comment would be taken well... ;-)

Rob

1.intro movie

You mean that you have two intro movies, one after the other, before the main menu is displayed, right?

Each button in your main menu is linked to the "screen-flying-away" transition video which in turn is linked to the appropriate video clip, correct? Just so I understand the structure of your project.

I don't think "scene selection" is going to work here. I only used that as an example because I already had a finished project or rather DVD on which to test, whether or not the menu looping would change which button was highlighted. It was not meant as way to set up your particular project.

@bStro
I don't mind providing a little entertainment once in a while. ;-)

First of all, thanks ro_max, for responding once more.
ro_max has wrote this:
"You mean that you have two intro movies, one after the other, before the main menu is displayed, right?"

-Exactly, Sir. The DVD starts with the first movie (which is an intro). Its end is linked to the next movie that shows a spaceflight until it gets to a certain still pic showing a galaxy. The end of this second movie is linked to the same still pic that serves as a motion menu where you can see the 6 buttons. As you click the buttons, each one is linked to movies that work as intros and these ones are linked to their respective main movies. That's it. I don't see a way to set a menu like this as a scene selection menu.

"Each button in your main menu is linked to the "screen-flying-away" transition video which in turn is linked to the appropriate video clip, correct? Just so I understand the structure of your project."

- That's it. You've got it.

"I don't think "scene selection" is going to work here."

- I told you.....didn't I? What a pity! Sony DVDA should have this feature, to keep the button highlighted even after the menu loops.
BTW, I've just watched "Finding Neverland" - what a great movie! And guess what, its main menu keeps the highlighted button even after it loops.....This is a very particular feature, I know, but I guess DVDA should be able to do it.

bStro wrote this:
"Most menus that I've seen (on commercial DVDs) go back to the originally highlighted item when they loop."
- Are you sure??????? I am not!

One more thing: ro_max, if you'd like to get a copy of my DVD, please send a valid address to my e-mail above. I'll send it to you. Thanks for this enlightening discussion. ;)

bStro wrote this:

Am I sure that most of the menus that I've seen do that? Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.

I am not!

Oh? Were you present when I watched them?

Rob

"Oh? Were you present when I watched them?"

- lol
- I'm sorry to see you're being sarcastic here. I don't see any intelligible reason for that. I do apologize because when I wrote I was not sure about that, I didn't explain that I wasn't sure because most of the DVDs I've seen keep the same button highlighted as the menu loops. Hope now you understand. I have PMed Sony about this feature. Let's hope it may be available in the near future. Thanks.