speed of menus

auggybendoggie wrote on 6/3/2008, 8:45 PM
Guys,
In making wed videos I want to accomplish a smoother transition from a media clip to a menu.

It seems there is a rather long pause when the end of the clip is reached and the dvd loads the menu page.

I've already fixed any time left at the end of the clip in DVDA on the timeline. I thought perhaps I had some black space but it's not that.
The clip ends and then hangs a bit then plays.

Is there a way of accomplishing shorter loading times?

Aug

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:09 PM
if you got rid of the frame or so @ the end of the clip (DVDA always seems to have 1 black frame at the end of everything I put in no matter what, so I reduce the length by 1 frame) I'm sad to say you can't. It varies between DVD players but that pause always happens.
MPM wrote on 6/4/2008, 9:20 AM
When the vid title ends the player has to follow any scripting maze to get back to the menu, & the drive usually has to jump from one end of the disc to the other. *IF* you could place a menu in a VTS (title set) after the one containing the ending video title, it *might* help because you wouldn't have the travel time, but in DVDA you can't do that - all menus are stuck in the one VTS, regardless where the titles are.

As an experiment if you wanted to play with it...
IF there was a place almost at the end of your title video where a pause wouldn't be a problem, you could split the video clip, insert this end segment first in your DVD, then have your main title jump to it as an end action. This should put the drive's laser much closer to the menus, which *might* reduce the delay between the end of your video & the menu display. The cost: you'd just be putting any laser traveling delay in another place, not eliminating it, but I can think of some situations, like maybe just before credits, where any pause might be less bothersome... maybe viewers are expecting some sort of transition before the credits, while they just want to get on with it when the title ends?