Slow menu buttons?
by John Hunter
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May 19, 2009 at 1:58:56 pm
Hey there,
When I burn a DVD of my project and put it into a normal DVD player, there is an annoying delay from the time you select a menu button and the media actually starts to play.
Is there a "button delay time" setting? I've seen something like that, but it didn't affect anything when I simulate the menu in DVD Studio Pro. That's the thing, there is no delay when the menu is simulated, only after it has been burned and played on a commercial DVD player.
Re: Slow menu buttons? by Michael Sacci on May 19, 2009 at 3:38:35 pm
There is always a delay on the dvd because the laser has to jump and refocus. Depending how far determines the length of time. On DVDSP authored disc this is normally a little slower then hollywood titles because of the way DVDSP makes thing easy for you as the author. In DVD spec you cannot jump directly around a disc as it appears you can in DVDSP there are always a couple of hidden jumps and these take a little time. If you want the fastest disc you need to get a spec level authoring tool like Scenarist (think it is still in the $50K range) and take about a month to learn it.
Re: Slow menu buttons? by John Hunter on May 19, 2009 at 4:06:52 pm
I have the same 2:25 sec video transition for 9 different buttons. Could this be the cause of a delay? I read in the manual about creating a separate menu for each video transition? I tried this and it worked, but I would think 9 different menus with the same video transition would be just as taxing on the DVD's menu speed!
Re: Slow menu buttons? by Michael Sacci on May 19, 2009 at 4:23:03 pm
I personally hate menu transitions (remember you asked what do I think) the first time they maybe interesting but they become annoying fast IMO. A 2:25 transition is LONG.
So you hit a button, there is a pause as it jumps to the transition, it plays and then there is a pause as it jumps to the video track or another menu. So you have created 2 pause instead of one.
Making more menus wouldn't speed up things nor would it be more taxing on the player. The way this could speed things up is if you placed each menu and the video into the same VTS (you will have to look this up in the manual) this greatly shortens the jump on the button to transition. The other way is the transition is a part of the next menu or video track so it eliminates the 2nd pause.
Re: Slow menu buttons? by John Hunter on May 19, 2009 at 4:35:57 pm
Nice, i like the "transition is a part of the next video track". That makes sense.
ACTUALLY.....now that I think about it, the delay that really stands out to me is the delay between "button states".
EXAMPLE: Navigating up, down, left, or right to another button.....there is a noticeable and annoying delay. ALSO, when the button is selected, it takes a second to even display it's selected state, then there's another delay before the video transition starts.
Re: Slow menu buttons? by eric pautsch on May 19, 2009 at 5:04:13 pm
Another thing to do here is create a transition but enable the loop point. You have your transition but no delay since your buttons appear at that loop point. You would even do this if your menu is a "still" - it would appear to be a still but really its a motion menu.
Re: Slow menu buttons? by Michael Sacci on May 19, 2009 at 5:08:42 pm
Are you using Layered Menus, if so they are extremely slow and this is why most professionally authored DVDs do not use them. 99.9% of retail DVDs use overlays, simple button highlights. You are actually jumping to a new menu every time you go to another button with layered menus.
