Use SUBSET of Vegas-created markers in DVD menu?

earthrisers wrote on 5/21/2008, 12:59 PM
(Cross-posted this in DVD-A, since it involves both packages.)

We've shot a graduation ceremony. In Vegas, I set up chapter markers for each individual graduate, so viewers can easily jump from one to the next.

In the DVD Selection Menu, I don't want to list every individual ---I want to list "alphabet groups", such as "A-G", "H-P", etc., while still retaining all the individual chapter points "invisibly" (i.e., they exist as jump-points, but they don't appear in the menu).

When I have DVD-A create the Scene Selection menu, it (of course) includes ALL the chapter points that I created in Vegas. What I want to do is delete most of those from the menu, without losing the actual underlying chapter settings. But if I delete items from the Selection Menu, DVD-A actually deletes the chapter marker itself, moving up all the remaining chapters and thus making them all WRONG, in terms of which person they point to. Do this multiple times, and the result is a fairly horrible mess, navigation-wise.

Is there a way to get the result I want?

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rs170a wrote on 5/21/2008, 4:47 PM
If you're using DVD-A 4.0 or newer, see if the A-Z.dar on this page does what you want.
It was made using generated media so you'll be able to open it.

Mike
earthrisers wrote on 5/21/2008, 6:44 PM
hmmmm... thank you, but the project wants to open a file called "untitled.mpg", located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Desktop"

The file doesn't exist on my computer.

I told DVD-A to ignore the file, and then the Menu screen does open but of course there's no media file underneath it. So I can't tell if the media file did indeed contain a whole bunch of chapter marks, with only five (A-E, F-J, K-O, P-T, U-Z) visible in the menu -- which is the result I'm after.
earthrisers wrote on 5/21/2008, 6:54 PM
I got the answer I was looking for, in reply to my cross-posting in the DVD Architect Forum -- in case anyone else is looking for this answer, too.