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More info?)
Sorry for the delay. I've never done this particular menu so I posted your
procedure on the DVDA forum. The answer is yes - easily.
Mike
CCR wrote:
> Thanks Adam and both Mikes for your advice.
> Just to make sure we are on the same page, let me give a bit more
> detail of what exactly I am looking to do.
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> I have here one long movie that I am going to split into 5 chapters:
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> 1. Breakfast scene
> 2. Leaving the house
> 3. Arriving on campus
> 4. Graduation ceremony
> 5. Festive Family Dinner
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> Now, I am desgining this DVD for technophobes. At the exact moment
> when the breakfast scene ends (scene #1), I want a black screen to
> appear with a few options as follows:
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> "Wasn't that a great breakfast that mom made? Well, now its time to
> get back to the movie:
> If you want to skip to the Graduation Ceremony, press HERE with the
> remote.
> If you want to skip to the Festive Family Dinner, press HERE with the
> remote.
> If you want to keep watching the film in its entirety, press HERE
> with the remote."
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> Basically, I want to make this home movie a little more interactive
> but at the same time allow technophobes easy control over the options.
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> Will Vegas 5/ DVD architect 2 let me do this trick?
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> "Mike Kujbida" <kujfam-misleadingspam@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:<2ikb4eFn5vosU1@uni-berlin.de>...
>> You beat me to the mark, mikep. I did this just last week for a
>> performance I taped at my kids school. The main page had the "whole
>> performance" link and a "scene selection" menu. On the second page,
>> I had each of 8 sections linked separately, another for credits and
>> one to return to the main page. At then end of each section, I had
>> it set to return to the scene selection" menu. Took some playing
>> around (the manual leaves a lot to be desired) but it worked great.
>> DVDA has the ability to create chapter points but being able to do
>> it in Vegas is a definite bonus. The teacher and the students were
>> very impressed
>>
>> Mike
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>> mikep76 wrote:
>>> Below is an excerpt from the "New Features" document for Vegas 5/DVD
>>> Architect 2 which discusses a new feature called "End Actions". It
>>> sounds like this is exactly what you are looking for. Although I
>>> own Vegas 5/DVDA 2, I have not yet installed it on a machine, so I
>>> have not tried out this feature. Note especially the final
>>> one-sentence paragraph.
>>>
>>> DVD Architect 2 software boasts powerful new end actions that give
>>> you a greater level of control over the viewing experience of your
>>> DVDs. We'll talk in much more detail about them when we discuss the
>>> Properties window later in this document. For now, a brief
>>> description will be helpful in understanding their relationship to
>>> the Project Overview window. Simply put, end actions enable you to
>>> specify the exact action that takes place once a menu or a media
>>> file finishes playing.
>>>
>>> For example, you could set the end action of a menu to wait for a
>>> specified period of time,and then (if the viewer hasn't selected any
>>> of the menu options) have the DVD automatically pick the menu option
>>> you specify in the end action.
>>>
>>> Or, you could set the end action of a media file so that it returns
>>> to a specific menu or runs another media file when it completes.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> ]ccrstudent@yahoo.com (CCR) wrote in message
>>> news:<794f53c.0406070548.4f63eec@posting.google.com>...
>>>> We all know how DVD movies are broken into "chapters" that the
>>>> viewer can jump to at any time.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I have a question about the technical possibilites of the DVD
>>>> disk.
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>>>> For example, lets say that I burn 3 small home movies onto one DVD.
>>>> At the end of the first movie, I want the disk to call up the intro
>>>> screen automatically instead of it continuing the next mini-movie
>>>> automatically.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is it possible to create artifical "pauses" inbetween chapters?
>>>>
>>>> 2. If so, is it possible to program the DVD so that at each pause
>>>> between chapters the intro menu will come back up?
>>>>
>>>> 3. What software can do this?
>>>>
>>>> And feeback would be appreciated.