Why do my menus not show up?

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/25/2012, 9:51 AM

I am using DVDA 5.0 making a BlueRay. I build a main menu and one sub menu. During the Preview, it seemed to work fine, but whn I burned the BlueRay, it went straight into the video. Pushing the menu button on the player had no effect. I had the Video marked as the start point, should I have selected the top menu?
(New to this tool) thanks.

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videoITguy wrote on 7/25/2012, 10:54 AM

If you mark your video media as the autostart object in your project tree it WILL come first- the menu could not possibly show until the end of the video is reached. Depends on whether you have a link at end of video to open the specified menu.

Actually this technique can be used to great effect, if you edit your full program with a video highlights sequence that is short and to the point, follow that with the main menu, then have the menu link to other scenes in your program - just like a Hollywood production piece.

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/25/2012, 11:01 AM

Thank you. I will make the menu the default start item. How do I put an item at the end to show the menu, or is that the defaule?

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/25/2012, 10:28 PM

No success. I have the BR at the top level, below that I have a folder that has th main menu in it and a star indicating it is the start item, below that the video, below that a second folder, inside that is a second menu with links below that to the various chapter settings. When I create an iso image it starts right at the video. What am I doing wrong?
thanks

videoITguy wrote on 7/25/2012, 11:14 PM

In DVDAPro - while creating and editing your Blu-ray project - you have a choice to engage preview of the project. The ordinary PREVIEW function allows you to preview the point at where your edit cursor is sitting. For example you could preview a piece of the video timeline, or you might be editing a menu button placement, and that is what you preview at that time.

The master PREVIEW disregards the edit cursor's present location and states you will get "TOTAL DISC PREVIEW"- what happens when you engage that function in your authoring process? Do you first see video or a menu?

Did you start building this project as a menu based project or a video based project? The default basis type for authoring has a great deal of influence on its eventual behavior.

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/26/2012, 8:40 AM

The behavior I see is after I render it to an iso file. I then mount the file and use a BR viewer to watch it. No Menues appear. In answer to your second question, I am not sure how I initially set it up. Which should I do as a menu based project?

Thanks

musicvid10 wrote on 7/26/2012, 11:18 AM

Have you actually burned a BD and viewed it?
Your project sounds confused.
Start with a new project, right-click on the menu icon, and "Add Media."
If you have named project markers in your media, the chapters should name themselves and create their own menus. That is really all you should have to do.

videoITguy wrote on 7/26/2012, 11:26 AM

Flyboy54 - There is such a thing as a valid test of your burn. I am going to tell you straightforwardly that a virtual drive mount or even a so-called Blu-ray player software on the OS of your choice IS NOT going to be a valid test-bed of your burn.

THE ONLY VALID test of a Blu-ray disc burn is in a set-top player - in fact a valid test-bed should be spread among 5 or more set-top players of different manufacturer and firmware age.

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/26/2012, 8:32 PM

musicvid, I am still apparently struggling wiht the render process out of Vegas.
After I create the video and sound and markers in Vegas (Movie Studio HD Platnum 11.0) I go to make a movie. For a Blueray, what should I use to render the video (and audio?) so It imports into DAD Architect with the markers?

I have tried Mainconcept-DVD Architect 24-p NTSC Wide video stream for the video and Dolby digital AC-3-stereo for the audio. I can then import the two fiels that are created in DVD Architect, but the markers do not come in...

Thank you for supporting the novice...

musicvid10 wrote on 7/26/2012, 8:54 PM

You are making a BluRay?
The AVC BluRay templates are in Sony AVC for AVCHD source..
The M2V BluRay templates are in MPEG-2 for HDV source.

Either way, use the checkbox that says "Save project markers in media file"

Flyboy54 wrote on 7/27/2012, 6:55 PM

Success, two things helped, 1) was that I was not scrolling down to see the check box to include the markers and 2) using the Insert Scene Selection Menu off the video.
Thank you for your help.