Play all or play individually

bbrooks wrote on 6/20/2004, 4:15 PM
I would like to set up a DVD with the option of playing all the movies in succesion or playing each individually (i.e. an extras DVD a la Lord of the Rings disc umpteen in the boxed set). That disc has several documentaries and you can choose as I mentioned play all or play each one at a time.

Would I need to set up 1 really long movie and set up the play all choice as the entire movie and the play individually as "chapters" starting and ending for just that "movie"?

If anyone has better suggestions or if you know this is how it's done, I certainly appreciate the help once again.

Brandon

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Express wrote on 6/20/2004, 9:14 PM
It is very easy to do using end-actions in DVDA2. (Search for 'end actions' and you will find several examples.)

I saw in another post that you listed DVDA 1 as your software. End actions will not be an option if that is what you are using.
bbrooks wrote on 6/21/2004, 6:10 AM
Thank you for the reply.
Would the "chapter" option then be my best bet?
Brandon
Express wrote on 6/21/2004, 7:18 AM
You can do it in multiple ways. Are you using DVDA1?
I'm not really the best source for DVDA1 - I never used it.

For DVDA2, a very good way is to simply add the entire clip several times, then define in and out points for each 'chapter' as defined here

Chris
JohnHD wrote on 6/21/2004, 10:46 AM
Brandon;
In DVD-A 2 is really simple Insert your media and create chapter points where you want. Then make as many copies of the media file as there are chapters click on the copies that correspond to where u want ur chapters to be on ur background and in order double click to get int ot viido on the timeline
Set ur inpoint for the begining and our outpoint for the end of the chapter and ur video will end and go back to whatever desitnation ur choose. Do this step for each copy.
bbrooks wrote on 6/21/2004, 11:30 AM
Well, I'm using DVDAC 1 so these are probably not the best options for me.
Thank you immensely for the help though.

Quick question. If you are making copies of the media file are you talking about making copies of your actual movie, and if so, wouldn't that eat up the memory on the disc rather quickly?

Do you think my inital idea would work for DVDAC 1 then since I am not able to do the suggested idea.

Thank you all again for your fantastic shared knowledge of DVDAC

Brandon
Express wrote on 6/21/2004, 1:26 PM
No additional resources are consumed on the disc - it works great.

You can add the same media resource multiple times, and it will be put on the disc only once - but can have multiple actions defined for it.

I'm not familiar enough with DVDA1 to answer.
You could make it work by adding it multiple times - but in DVDA1 it will be put on the disc multiple times.

Chris