Menu: Text/Buttons don't persist

rberman wrote on 8/29/2005, 1:16 PM
Hi all. I posted another message about hooking up a "play" button to the play on a remote. Now another problem:

Same project -- just a single menu, based on one of the canned backgrounds, with a single button linking to the single video event.

The problem is that when I drop anything on the menu, it isn't there when the menu is played. In the timeline, you don't see anything I've dropped on the menu (button or text). If I click "navigate into" on the menu or its single page, I see anything I've put on the page, but the moment I play the menu from the timeline, only the background plays -- the button and text is all gone.

I can't figure out what I should be doing to make them persist. Interestingly, if I press the actual "play" button in the timeline while looking at the menu with text, NOTHING happens. If I click on "Play from in point", it plays (and the background music plays), but all the text is gone.

This seems to be a clue, like somehow the inserted items are all prior to the in point, but I can't find any way around this behavior.

Other clues: Clicking on "go to in point" shows menu without the button and text. Clicking on "go to out point" shows the button and text. I tried going to in point and pasting in the button, but the moment I play or again click "go to in point" it is gone.

So what is the correct way to do this? The menu is 30 seconds long, I suppose animated somehow from the canned PNG file supplied with DVDA 3b.

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bStro wrote on 8/29/2005, 4:30 PM
I suppose animated somehow from the canned PNG file supplied with DVDA 3b.

Nope. None of the supplied themes are animated.

But here's a question: Did you happen to move the green line on the menu's timeline? That green line sets the menu's "loop" point. The loop point of a menu in DVDA 3.0 decides two things: 1) Where the menu returns to when the end is reached; but it also b) at which point the buttons on the menu first appear. This is a feature that DVDA users have been clamoring for since 1.0 -- it gives the appearance of delayed buttons.

If that's what's happening, and you don't want it to happen, just take hold of the arrow at the top of that green line and drag it back to the beginning. Or go to the Menu Page Properties, choose the tab marked General, and set Loop point to 0.

Rob
rberman wrote on 8/30/2005, 10:02 AM
Yes -- I figured out it was loop point. I thought loop point meant where it would END and return to the START! So I had it at the very end, thus no menus.

All ok now.