Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but trying to set simple still image Menu Button Thubnails seems to be much harder in DVDA-2 than it used to be in DVDA-1.
In DVDA-1, I would take a 1 or 2 hour MPG, drop it on the Main Menu, do an 'Insert Scene selection Menu', and I'd have several pages of Scene selection menus (for, say 24 chapters).
To quickly set the Thumbnail of one of the scene selection Buttons, I could
go the say scene selection page 2, double click on the button, and I'd get a timeline with the current chapter marker in green.
I could expand the scale on the timeline, find where I wanted to be, and hit 'T' to change the thumbnail. Hitting 'Back to parent' I would be back on scene selection page 2, with my updated Icon for the button I chose.
This didn't take long, and now I could easily do the next button on that same page.
In DVDA-2, this seems to be 10 times as hard:
1) I tried the 'Start Time' properties for the button. Minimum granlarity is about 1 minute 12 seconds. Since this is 1 or 2 thousand times coarser than I has hoping for, I tried double clicking on the Button.
2) No more button to 'set thumbnail'. It appears you can double click on the menu button to get to a smaller timeline, but the current marker is no longer highlighted in green. (At least you get a black current position line, but this is already suckier than before).
When you have the frame you want, the best you seem to be able to do is 'copy' the timeline time. You then have to find the Properties for the button you were on, so you can paste this into the 'time' value.
2) O.k., so now that you've 'copied' the time, you need to find your way back up to the button you double clicked on. But, hitting 'Back to Parent' no longer takes you back to the Scene selection page you were on when you double clicked the button.
Instead, you go back to 'Menu 1'. So, you have to navigate back to the scene selection selection page you were on, and remember which button you copied the time for, so you can go ahead and paste the time into the right properties entry.
So, why does 'back to parent' go back to a different parent then you came from? I would have been happy to use the 'Previous page' button instead, but it is greyed out at this point.
So, I figure I'm either missing something, or this new procedure is ten times more work to perform what used to be a trivial job in DVDA-1.
What am I missing?
Thanks;
-Greg Bohn
In DVDA-1, I would take a 1 or 2 hour MPG, drop it on the Main Menu, do an 'Insert Scene selection Menu', and I'd have several pages of Scene selection menus (for, say 24 chapters).
To quickly set the Thumbnail of one of the scene selection Buttons, I could
go the say scene selection page 2, double click on the button, and I'd get a timeline with the current chapter marker in green.
I could expand the scale on the timeline, find where I wanted to be, and hit 'T' to change the thumbnail. Hitting 'Back to parent' I would be back on scene selection page 2, with my updated Icon for the button I chose.
This didn't take long, and now I could easily do the next button on that same page.
In DVDA-2, this seems to be 10 times as hard:
1) I tried the 'Start Time' properties for the button. Minimum granlarity is about 1 minute 12 seconds. Since this is 1 or 2 thousand times coarser than I has hoping for, I tried double clicking on the Button.
2) No more button to 'set thumbnail'. It appears you can double click on the menu button to get to a smaller timeline, but the current marker is no longer highlighted in green. (At least you get a black current position line, but this is already suckier than before).
When you have the frame you want, the best you seem to be able to do is 'copy' the timeline time. You then have to find the Properties for the button you were on, so you can paste this into the 'time' value.
2) O.k., so now that you've 'copied' the time, you need to find your way back up to the button you double clicked on. But, hitting 'Back to Parent' no longer takes you back to the Scene selection page you were on when you double clicked the button.
Instead, you go back to 'Menu 1'. So, you have to navigate back to the scene selection selection page you were on, and remember which button you copied the time for, so you can go ahead and paste the time into the right properties entry.
So, why does 'back to parent' go back to a different parent then you came from? I would have been happy to use the 'Previous page' button instead, but it is greyed out at this point.
So, I figure I'm either missing something, or this new procedure is ten times more work to perform what used to be a trivial job in DVDA-1.
What am I missing?
Thanks;
-Greg Bohn