movie to play before content
by Charles Ferran
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Jan 2, 2009 at 11:08:14 pm
hey everyone, I'm having a problem with my timeline. what I want to happen is an intro movie to play when you first put the DVD in, then go to the menu, then when you hit a button, an outtro movie needs to play before bringing you to the content. I figured out the intro part, a movie plays which is on a track, then goes to a still menu, now what I can't figure out is how to tell DVD Studio to play the outtro track before moving on to the content of the button they pressed, there must be a way to do it, can you guys help? also, I'm doing this for a client to be a template, so the client should only have to click the template, drop in there content and go with it, they shouldn't have to mess around with tracks and get technical with it, so is there a relatively easy solution? thanks
Re: movie to play before content by BrAd Steiner on Jan 6, 2009 at 7:59:58 pm
Another way to do this is to make another menu that has as it's background the video you want to play. Then set the "transition" menu to time out when it's done. the options are still, loop, or time out. then set the action to jump to the track you want.
The benefit of this is that the "transition" menus can be sitting in the same VTS folder as the main menu. If I understand it all correctly, this will give you a faster response than having to jump between several tracks quickly.
Another way is set a custom transition video for each button. At the bottom of transition options is "transition video." You select this one and set an imported video as one of the transitions. I have used this successfully in the past. But I have no idea how the transition videos are stored within the DVD file structure.
let us know what you end up doing. Everyone reads about the problems, but seldom do we here a solution actually working.
Re: movie to play before content by Charles Ferran on Jan 7, 2009 at 2:24:04 pm
What we ended up doing was having a separate track for both the intro, and outro videos. I had a static image as the menu, when a button was hit the button was linked to the outro track, then the end jump of the outro track was the content. This only seems to work with a one button scenario, I will try your method and see if it works better for a multiple button project.
