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RonR wrote on 10/2/2006, 9:20 PM
Hi ScottW and bStro. Thank you for your help on The Vegas Forum. I'll now switch my questions to this forum.

I did what you said, Scott, and dragged my seven movies to the Main Menu and I now have two sets of identical buttons - one set plays through all the movies to the end, and the other set plays the movies one at a time, just as I want them to do. Now I would like to hide the linked buttons so that I just have one button to show all seven movies.

I have set up a button on the main menu to do this, but when I click on the End Action the only options I see are Loop/Hold/Active Button, and they don't seem to do what I want. There is no Link button.

What am I missing?

RonR

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bStro wrote on 10/2/2006, 10:31 PM
the only options I see are Loop/Hold/Active Button

Those are options for the menu. Select the button you want to change options for, and the Properties window will change accordingly. That's to edit the button properties. To edit the end actions for the movies themselves, you have to navigate into them (double-click a button to navigate into the linked media).

If you've already linked your movies together, but want to hide the "extra" buttons, go to the Project Overview window, drag each of them to the root level (looks like a disc) of your project. This keeps them in the project but off the menu. Be sure to leave the button for the first movie where it is.

Rob
RonR wrote on 10/3/2006, 11:48 AM
My main problem seems to be that I cannot make the main button for the continuous show do anything. I still only get the Loop/Hold/Active Button. I have dragged the whole file for the linked buttons onto the Workspace with the same End Action result. I can find no way to link anything to a "top" button. I tried to navigate into it but nothing came up.

I also dragged the linked buttons into the root level, as you suggest, but that was even more confusing as some of them stayed visible under the root level disc while others diappeared. I stepped back several times using Edit/Undo but the same thing happened each time. None of that made any difference.

I have tried the Preview several times and the unlinked buttons work as they should do, but I can't find a way to get to the linked buttons.

I am sure it is something very minor that I am missing. Any help would be appreciated.

RonR
bStro wrote on 10/3/2006, 12:51 PM
To be honest, I can't tell what you have in your project now and how to make it work. So I'll just list what I think you want to have and the steps I'd take to get the project that way. If these steps help you fix the project as you have it, cool. If not, maybe you'll want to use them to start over.

What I think you're trying to accomplish: You have seven videos, each of which is contained in its own file. You want one button that plays all of them, and you want a button for each one that plays its designated video and returns to the menu.

Steps to get there:

1. Drag all seven videos from the Explorer window and drop them on the root level of the project (the disc icon in the Project Overview window). This adds them to the project but creates no buttons.

2. One by one, double-click each of those seven items in the Project Overview window, go to the Properties window / End Actions tab, and change that video's Destination setting to whichever the video should play after that one. Set the last item to return to whichever menu you want.

3. In the Project Overview window, double-click the menu on which you want the Play All button. Drag the item for the first movie and drop it onto the menu. That creates one button on your menu that will "kick off" the series of movies. Preview your project to be sure that it operates as expect and that the movies play in a series.

4. Once that's done, go again to the Explorer window, select the seven movies, and drag them to your menu. (If you want the individual movies to be selected from a separate menu, add one and navigate into it first.) This creates seven buttons, each which will play an individual video and return back to that menu.

If this doesn't help, send your current DAR file to bstro at 50mail dot com, and I'll take a look about it. (No need to send any media at all, just the project file.)

Rob
RonR wrote on 10/3/2006, 5:05 PM
bStro.

Thank you very much for your help. Everything is now working just as I wanted it to. I took your advice and started all over again and completed the project in little over half-an-hour. While doing so I realised where I had made my error. I had dragged all the movie files into the Menu 1 and put nothing in the Root level. I'll do it right next time.

There is one thing I notice when running through in the Preview window. The Menu 1 legend is showing on that window. Will that go away when I burn a disc, or do I have to remove it in some way?

Thanks again,

RonR
ScottW wrote on 10/3/2006, 7:42 PM
Click on it - hit the delete key
bStro wrote on 10/4/2006, 7:57 AM
The Menu 1 legend is showing on that window.

I think that's the menu title you're referring to. It's there for you to use, if you want it. Click it, press F2 to edit it, and change it to whatever text you want to appear on your menu (for example, "RonR's Fast Action Films" or whatever.

Or, as Scott suggests, just delete it. I usually incorporate my menu titles into the background image itself.

Rob