Menu Titles, Subtitles, Buttons and Playlists

dfred wrote on 3/3/2008, 2:32 PM
After countless posts to this forum as well as the Vegas forum, I think all the information I've been reading (and printing) is making sense.

If we want a menu consisting of one button that plays all and separate buttons for each section of the video, this is where one would drag the same video clip onto the menu multiple times. Within those menus, we can set in and out points so that each individual menu plays a specific part of the video. When it stops, the main menu appears again.

If we want to jump to a specific scene, we insert the scene selection menu. Let's say there are 5 of them. We select any one of those we want and the movie begins playing at the start point for that respective scene (let's use scene 2) then plays the remainder of the entire video.

I've learned how to manipulate buttons with or without text and also add a background photo to the menu page.

The only other thing I am curious about at this point is the playlist. I inserted one and have read a little about it in the program help (on my pc, not online) and am not sure I understand just what this does. I'll read more about that in the forum some other time; however, if someone wants to explain them a bit here, that'd be great.

One more thing, how long are the posts available in the forum? I received an answer to one in May of 2007 but when I search for that subject, the post is not found. Fortunately, I printed a copy, but was just wondering if they are only available for 90 days or something.

Thanks again - you've all been a great help.

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TOG62 wrote on 3/4/2008, 2:12 AM
The only other thing I am curious about at this point is the playlist.

The beauty of playlists is that you can have many of these within a project without adding significantly to the project size. Each will play clips in whatever order you specify (albeit with a slight pause between clips)

One more thing, how long are the posts available in the forum?

There is a box on the search dialogue giving options up to 2 years.

Mike
dfred wrote on 3/4/2008, 12:59 PM
Now i'm really curious about this playlist idea. I've read in the forums that if you can add the file multiple times in DVDA in order to make a menu without increasing the file size significantly. So...if I can make do this, add a menu and add scene selection, is a playlist really necessary? Are you saying I could have 10 chapters or segments of a movie and they could be selected and played in any order using the playlist? Do you know of any good instruction on how to set this up? I have found that the manuals are not (to me) very clear with direction and this forum is far better than my manuals.

Thanks for the info about the 2 year search being available. I've also figured out that if you go to the the top of a search page you can put in a number and go back much futher. I went into one and went back as far as 2001.

Thanks again for all the help.
TOG62 wrote on 3/4/2008, 1:22 PM
Are you saying I could have 10 chapters or segments of a movie and they could be selected and played in any order using the playlist?

Yes.

Do you know of any good instruction on how to set this up?

Add clips then Insert Playlist. You can change the order by selecting Playlists tab in bottom right and dragging the entries.

Mike
dfred wrote on 3/4/2008, 2:36 PM
Thanks Mike. I played around with this with just adding one clip - just to get an idea of how to insert the playlist and where I might drag the entries to set the order.

This is a neat feature and I am guessing it'd be useful if I were to have, say, 5 clips of one family member and 5 of another and a viewer may want to switch back & forth. This is definitely something else I'll have to add to my "learn-to-do-some-day" pile.

Looks like just having the menu with chatper markers and/or scene selection will be the best choice for making school band videos.

Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.