RatVega
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Apr 27, 2006, 12:16 AM
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Re: [bmitchell] DVD SP navigation problem
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This is for both Bill and Lisa:
If you want to be able to to go from either a "play all" button (usually on the main menu) or by chapter (first dance, bouquet toss, whatever...) from a "scene select" menu, here's what to do:
Lay out your menus however pleases you, but orderly generally makes it easier.
Built the "main play" sequence (I frequently have 3-4 clips that make up the main play, it's just easier to re-encode that way if I find an error late in the game) all on the same track in the DVDSP timeline. Chapter mark anything you want to be able to skip to, either for fast forward ease (I like a mark every 3-5 minutes in a long sequence) or points you intend to use as "scene selects". Name the scene selects for easy identification later - that way scenes have names, skip points just have chapter numbers.
With the track selected, use the "make story" option to create a story for the main play track and open the story tab.
(Aside: set up the end jump for the main play track to return to its menu. I usually do this before story creation just to keep organized.)
In the story tab, you'll see all the chapter marks you created on the left and an empty field on the right. Any thing you drag to the right can be re-defined for its end jump. I just drag everything over. Here's an illustration of how it hooks up:
I have a first dance which includes one "skip point" that I want as a scene select. I called the chapter mark "First Dance" (duh...) and the skip point is just (say,) chapter 8. I set up my First Dance button in the Scene Selection menu to jump to Story>First Dance. Then, in the story tab, I set leave the First Dance end jump as default (I think the default is called "same as track") so it will play through the skip point (chapter 8) and set Chapter 8 end jump to return to the scene select menu. This makes the First Dance button play from the First Dance chapter mark, through the Chapter 8 "skip point" and return to the menu it came from. Obviously if it was a longer segment with 2-3 skip points, I'd set it to play through all but the last chapter mark.
I generally also set a 2 second delay before the end jump coming out of stories, for some reason they sometimes want to quit a bit early and this seems to remedy the problem.
I know that you'll have some questions because anything this specific is subject to interpretation, but I hope this gets the dialog started.
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