No, I want it to do nothing when you insert the disk.

I think I found a way by using a script with a stop command.

Dave T2

You could also have your menu be a black background with a single link to the video in black text with black highlighting.

DaveT2,
If you can get your DVDA script to work like you want it to....would you mind sharing the syntax snippet and where you place it in the DVD object tree?? It would be a most useful action to have.
Thanks,
Doug

Chienworks,

A menu won't work. This DVD player runs from a Serial Control cable and plays the first video on the disk. Then it goes to a stop condition. If you have a menu, it will loop on that menu. For those long periods of time when nothing is done, the laser is burning the disk at that menu point and will eventually ruin the disk.

Thanks though.

Dave T2

Doug,

I am testing it now. It is an easy script. Set Script for start and set command as STOP.

I will let you know how it works.

Dave T2

Doug,

IT worked. In DVDA In the ASSETS menu, Insert DVD Script. Then go to your DVD script editor, chan the NOP command to STOP. Make it a Start DVD script (not in the Media Properties window, it will never work if you do this).

When you insert the disk it STOPS. When you hit PLAY it will play the first video on the disk.

Dave T2

I ran into a need for this a couple of years ago. Could you post your exact process, including the script?

Why not go "Tools - Burn Disk - DVD" directly from Vegas?

"Why not go "Tools - Burn Disk - DVD" directly from Vegas?

'cause, when burning from the timeline, Vegas Pro sets the title created from the timeline as "first play" and causes the video to start on insertion into the player.

Thanks John for setting me straight. I also misread the question.

Craig

Steve,

In the Project Window

Right click> Insert DVD Script

Make sure you turn on VIEW>DVD Scripts

When you open the DVD script Window, you will see the the command NOP, click on that and that opens the Script Properties Window (on the right side on my computer)

Statement Type should say COMMAND
next line is the Actual Comman, click on that NOP and you have a drop down list. Select STOP.

Go backk to Project Window, Right click on your new DVD script and select DVD START SCRIPT.

Make sure that the video you want when you hit PLAY is the first video on the disk.

That is all there is to it.

Dave T2

"For those long periods of time when nothing is done, the laser is burning the disk at that menu point and will eventually ruin the disk."

I'm not so certain that actually happens, the players do buffer the data and if left for a while with a menu that fits into the buffer the disk stops spinning and the laser powers down. There's then a bit of a delay when you activate a button while the disk spins up.

Bob.

Bob,

You might be correct, but I don't know if that is a standard performance for DVD players. We used to put black video for the DVD to loop on, and that did indeed eat the disk eventually.

At least with the STOP function, you don't have to worry at all.

Dave T2