Yikes my DVD has playback issues...

newUzer wrote on 6/12/2006, 4:56 AM

Hello,

What should the tree look like for a DVD with the following structure?

1) Insert DVD and loop plays until an onscreen button is pressed.
2) Pressing the onscreen button launches a short clip.
3) After that short clip, a menu comes up with buttons for 2 movies.
4) Click button 1, movie one plays, after which, it returns to the menu
5) Click button 2, movie two plays, after which it falls into a short clip.
6) After short clip, it returns to the loop in 1) above.

Comments

bStro wrote on 6/12/2006, 7:01 AM

Try this:

PROJECT
- MENU 1 FOLDER
-- MENU 1 (Page 1)
--- Short Clip 1
-- MENU 1 (Page 2)
--- Movie One
--- Movie Two
- Short Clip 2

Steps:

1. Create a new menu based project. The default menu (MENU 1, Page 1) will act as your "loop." So be sure to set its End Action to "Loop".

2. Add Short Clip 1 to that menu.

3. Select the root of your project (it's the disc icon way at the top of the tree in the Project Overview window) and add (Insert or drag) Short Clip 2. You want it in the project, but not on a menu.

4. Insert a menu page and add your two main movies to it. By default, DVDA will create a button here that links back to Page 1, and will also create a button on Page 1 that links to Page 2. Chances are, you don't want those buttons. Delete them (but not the pages themselves ;).

5. Navigate into Short Clip 1 and set it End Action to link to Menu 1 Page 2.

6. Navigate into Movie Two and set its End Action to link to Menu 1 Page 1. (You can also set the End Action for Movie One to link to Menu 1 Page 2, but it's probably not necessary. By default, it will link to "most recent menu," which implies the same result.)

7. Edit your menus as necessary so they look how you want. I'm guessing you've got some video you want to use during the looping section, so set the background media of Menu 1 Page 1 to that video, if that's the case.

Rob