Still Pictures Problem.. Reply ASAP Please

strangezero wrote on 3/4/2004, 11:42 AM
Dear all...

I'm trying to author a demo dvd for video projectors. The dvd will be based in jpegs... Contrast/grayscale etc etc...

So i want to create a menu that will contain 9 pictures and when i click to the first one... it will play FOREVER until i press "next chapter" and then it'll move to the next picture that will also play looped until i stop it or press a menu/next button.

Is this possible? I tried picture slideshow but if i select 1 hour for each picture the project becomes 240GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

richard-courtney wrote on 3/5/2004, 9:16 AM
Could you use the jpegs as looped backgrounds for submenu pages?
strangezero wrote on 3/6/2004, 2:01 AM
i did that but i want to have chapters as well....
ScottW wrote on 3/6/2004, 6:25 AM
It's not perfect, but....

Place your first picture as the background on the main menu. On the page properties, select looped and deselect autocalculate length and provide a length of 5 seconds (otherwise DVDA will complain). Change the highlighting style to text mask overlay.

Then from the insert dropdown, select page. This will create a new page (actually a second menu) with the same background as the page you were just on. Select a new background for this page, and give it the same attributes as the previous page. DVDA will automatically create a Previous Page button - you can delete this.

If you want, click on "previous" and navigate back to the previous page. Select the arrow object that was created and the object tab. set the link type to text only and delete the text in the box - you now have a hidden navigation button.

On the last page you've got a bit of a problem. There doesn't seem to be a way to get DVDA to create a navigation button that will take you back to the main menu. One option is to just put some text on this page that says "click menu to restart"

So, from the main menu, when you are ready to advance, just click enter, which activates the hidden navigation button taking you to the next menu.

You can do the same thing with just putting a main menu in front and rather than inserting pages, simply insert additional sub menus.