scene selection HELP please

dendence wrote on 6/8/2006, 3:31 AM
I have been reading posts about this but I don't get it.
This is what I want to do. I have a project that contains 3 different items. It is a high school lacrosse video.1 game video highlights, 2 photos, 3 tribute to seniors. I would like to have 3 menus when the dvd is put in a dvd player. Play All, Photos, Seniors. I have been trying everything. When I create 3 menus and on the timeline create 3 chapters I cant link the menus to the chapters.PLEASE HELP. I have to complete this and make 40 copies by Monday. Thanks

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ScottW wrote on 6/8/2006, 5:42 AM
FIrst off, based on your description you don't want three menus. You want a single menu with 3 selections.

Have you rendered the game highlights, photos and tributes as seperate clips, or is it all a single large clip? If it's a single clip, I would suggest going back to Vegas and breaking it up into 3 different clips.

Then create a new project and simply drag each individual clip onto the menu - thus creating your 3 selections. For the play-all, assuming you are using DVDA/DVDAS 3.0, then you can simply insert a playlkist and add each of your clips to the playlist - the playlost will show up as your 4th selection option on the menu.

--Scott
dendence wrote on 6/8/2006, 5:45 AM
Yes it is 3.0 and I have rendered it as a single movie. I think I got it. I have to create chapters on the timeline in dvd architect first and then create scene selection button. Is this correct ? It seems to work now. When I go to the preview button it works.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/8/2006, 6:07 AM
Here is what I would do:

1. Drop the movie into a menu and change the name to Play All.
2. Highlight the button and copy and paste it (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) onto the menu again.
3. Rename this button Photos
4. Double-click on this new button and set the in and out points to just be the Photos.
5. Repeat steps 2 – 4 to create the Seniors button

You will now have three buttons. One that plays all and two that will play just a section of the movie and return to the main menu.

If you want the other two buttons (Photo and Seniors) to continue playing after their section then forget about the cut and paste method above. Just insert an Empty Button and set the media to your movie and change the Destination chapter setting to the chapter you want to start at. It’s that simple.

~jr
johnmeyer wrote on 6/8/2006, 7:36 AM
Ditto to what Johnny Roy said. Having it in one video is definitely better than three videos because the navigation will work more seamlessly. Try to avoid rendering in separate MPEG files whenever you can, especially when you are going to distribute a lot of copies.

Good luck. I did the senior video for our high school last year. Biggest project I ever worked on. It was a great achievement, or so I though. Distributed 160 copies. In one year, I received exactly one comment. Won't ever do another one, or anything like it.
dendence wrote on 6/8/2006, 8:57 AM
thank you all for the help.
JohnnyRoy I am practicing at work and I used your method and in the preview section it worked.
This method is what figured out at 6am. I was up untill 11:30 trying to figure it out.What is the difference in doing it your way or this way
1.insert media
2.create chapters in timeline
3.right click on media button in the blue area and click scene selection and choose how many links per page.
4.rename all the chapters
5. etc
then there will be 2 pages.A main page and and a scene selection page.
Which method is better.? Your method seems to be because there is only one page.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/8/2006, 11:18 AM
I don't know about comparing JR's method with yours, but you can remove step 4 in your method if in step 2 you name the chapters. The "Insert Scene Selection" right-click option will create buttons with names taken from the chapter names you create in step 2.
PeterWright wrote on 6/8/2006, 5:50 PM
... also be aware that Chapters are in fact START points - the video will play from that start point to the original finish of the whole movie, and not return to Menu after one section.

Johnny Roy's way, with separate instances of the same movie, each with its own Start and End points, will enable you to view each section separately then return to Menu.
dendence wrote on 6/8/2006, 7:30 PM
Great, thank-you
Why can't the manual be written so a normal person can understand.This forum is great and you all have been a big help.