Thumbnails as TEXT dissapear on burned DVD

clearvu wrote on 6/2/2004, 12:20 PM
Within DVDA2, I've set up a menu to show just text which is highlighted when selected. I've got a number of video clips that each text links to . All works fine withing DVDA, but when I burn it to a DVD, the only text seen is the one that is highlighted, the others dissapear. The ARE still there because I can move to them and they highlight accordingly.

How come this is happening? Is what I am doing not possible with DVDA2? I used to do it all the time with version 1.

Brian

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bStro wrote on 6/2/2004, 1:08 PM
Bug.

You should be able to work around it by selecting all of your text on the menu design screen, right-click, and choose Bring to Front.

Rob
clearvu wrote on 6/2/2004, 1:30 PM
THAT did NOT work.

I am presuming that when you say "Bring to Front", you mean, "Move to Top".

In any event, I'm going to try "Move Forward" and see if THAT works.

Just to make a point, my menu background is a 60 second video clip. Not that that should make a difference, but thought I'd mention it.

This is frustrating! It takes awhile to burn a disk, so every test is wasting my time.!!!
mike_2004z wrote on 6/2/2004, 3:48 PM

Hi,

Another way is to cut all the text(s) (group select all) in the menu and then paste it/them back. This work for me (most of the time).



bStro wrote on 6/2/2004, 3:51 PM
Just to make a point, my menu background is a 60 second video clip. Not that that should make a difference, but thought I'd mention it.

Actually it does make a difference. To the best of my knowledge, this only happens with motion backgrounds, not still ones.

Rob
clearvu wrote on 6/2/2004, 4:00 PM
I just figured out a workaround.

I set the thumbnail to text AND image and them take the image icon and drag the corner until it disappears. At that point place the "invisible" image on top of the text.

It worked for me.

Brian
SonySDB wrote on 6/4/2004, 5:46 AM
This problem is due to a bug that causes DVDA to not correctly identify that the video for the menu needs to be recompressed, in this case. (The video for the menu needs to be recompressed because the text needs to be composited into the video.)

Here's another workaround:
1. File | Optimize DVD...
2. In the list of media assets, select the menu whose text is not showing up on the burnt DVD
3. Set Video | Recompress from No to Yes
4. Press Ok

This bug will be fixed in the next update of DVDA2.
cworld29 wrote on 6/5/2004, 3:18 PM
I had this happen too. It worked fine in preview but didn't when I viewed the prepared files in my software DVD viewer. Turns out I had inactive buttons highlite set to none/tranparent.

All text buttons have to have a highlite or they don't show up unless they have been selected.

If you don't like the highlite then render the background with titles done in vegas then just make an under line highlite and empty text buttons.
mike_2004z wrote on 6/5/2004, 3:46 PM

>I had this happen too. It worked fine in preview but didn't when I viewed the >prepared files in my software DVD viewer. Turns out I had inactive buttons >highlite set to none/tranparent.
>All text buttons have to have a highlite or they don't show up unless they >have been selected.

It's also happen with NORMAL Text (why should I need high-light for normal text ?)

>If you don't like the highlite then render the background with titles done in >vegas then just make an under line highlite and empty text buttons.

This is really, really counter productive if I already have an MPEG-2 compliance file (from a hardware encoder). So I don't need Vegas to rerender/reencode my video file 'cause it going to take forever.

The point is this "undocumented" feature of DVDA-2 is A BUG and need to spash it ASAP (along with other BIG BUGS). I'm currently going back to DVDA v1 'cause DVDA-2 already wasted alot of my production time.





cworld29 wrote on 6/5/2004, 4:29 PM
The only thing that I see that may be a bug is the preview showing the text button if it has been set to be transparent when inactive. This will cause alot of confusion. I can't think of any reason at the moment why they would have it this way other than so you can see where the buttons line up.

>> "It's also happen with NORMAL Text (why should I need high-light for normal text ?)"

I get this too. This has to be a bug. I put a title on the menu page in a project with inactive buttons set to none and it did treat the title text just like the buttons. No way that I can find to set properties for the text object.