Make DVD problem

joejon wrote on 7/20/2004, 5:13 PM
I made a DVDA project with a video project from Vegas and a Picture Slide show project from Vegas (pictures were .jpg). I have two animated buttons on the main menu (one for each project). When I burn to a disc, it worked fine. In DVDA, I later added a background image (file type .png) and background music. The preview worked fine. I then prepared and burned to a disc, which seemed to render okay. When I try to play the DVD, all I get is a black screen with the background music playing. I need help trying to figure out what happened. Why would adding those two things cause this to happen? Also, my buttons animate for 20-30 seconds. How do I change that so they continuously animate as long as the main menu is displayed?

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bStro wrote on 7/20/2004, 8:54 PM
Button animation: Be sure that the end action for your menu is set to loop. If it is already, then be sure you're using the latest update of DVDA, 2.0a. It fixed a bug where a menu with still backgrounds and an audio track would not loop. Or if you're using DVDA 1, just be sure that the Looped box for the menu is checked.

The "black screen" issue: I have no idea. Does the disc work in a PC based player as well as a standalone DVD player? Can't think of why doing what you did would've caused that. Bad media, maybe?

Rob
joejon wrote on 7/21/2004, 1:12 PM
This is the first menu-based project that I've done. After reading more help info. and playing with the different settings more, I found that I put the audio that I wanted for the background both in the background directory path and the project properties (introductory audio path). So my audio was playing first for the introductory, which I hadn't selected any media for. I didn't let the DVD play through the whole first song. If I would have, then my main menu screen would have appeared. Once I deleted the introductory audio, everything worked fine. It's strange though that the preview goes directly to the main menu; it doesn't do the intro. audio. Otherwise I would have realized I did something wrong before I prepared and burned two DVD discs that I wasted. Anyway, it was a human error and not a program error.
bStro wrote on 7/21/2004, 3:10 PM
Ah. Interesting, it never occurred to me that DVDA would let you use an audio track (by itself) for the introductory media. But I suppose it shouldn't surprise me.

As for why this didn't happen in preview, it depends on what you click. If you click the arrow next to Preview, there are two optoins -- Preview Current (which starts the preview from the menu / media you're currently editing) and Preview Disc (which starts from the absolute beginning). The default is Preview Current.

Rob
joejon wrote on 7/21/2004, 4:23 PM
Thanks, good information to know.