scenarist pause

[andgio]

Hi you all, I wonder if it exist in scenarist a command to pause a video at the beginning or the and of a cell. Anyway does it exist a pause command? I mean a command after which you must click play to continue viewing the DVD?
Thanks

[Ghitulescu]

I thought they told you in the course (you got with the software) about the cell still time?

[rik1138]

Uh, Scenarist (Blu-ray or DVD) doesn't come with a 'course'. Never has. You can purchase training separately from Sonic if you want, but it certainly doesn't 'come with it'.

Also, this software is purchased by companies and kept indefinitely. They hire new people to do the authoring all the time, so they wouldn't have access to these 'courses' anyway. And the manuals that come with Scenarist are fairly useless for anything but really basic work.

I really don't understand what makes people think that every person that asks a question here about Scenarist is the person that just bought the software, is on a first-name basis with every Sonic employee and attends these mythical Sonic training classes on a weekly basis...

I've never needed to used Cell Still Time, but I think it you set it 0 it will pause at the end of the cell indefinitely.

Rik

[bigotti5]

I've never needed to used Cell Still Time, but I think it you set it 0 it will pause at the end of the cell indefinitely.

...set it to 255 will pause at the end of the cell indefinitely.

[rik1138]

...set it to 255 will pause at the end of the cell indefinitely.

Woops, my bad... Like I said, never had to use it (been doing this for 10 years too... :rolleyes: ).

I looked at one cell, saw it was 255, so I assumed 0 was the pause setting. Of course, the cell I looked at was a static menu. Figures...

So, yeah, 255 will pause indefinitely. :cool:

[Ghitulescu]

Uh, Scenarist (Blu-ray or DVD) doesn't come with a 'course'. Never has. You can purchase training separately from Sonic if you want, but it certainly doesn't 'come with it'.

You might be right, but I'm pretty sure there were also "packages" (soft+hard+courses), at least some years ago.
And the manuals that come with Scenarist are fairly useless for anything but really basic work.
The manuals are for reference only, not to explain how to use scenarist in its plentiness (that's why are the official courses, or the "survival guides" some external consultants gave, we called them "Morning refreshings" at the time). It also doesn't explain you everything, as the DVD specs are still NDA, and not bought with scenarist.

Cell time 0 is "No wait", 255 is "infinite wait". My definitions of terms ;)

[andgio]

Thanks you all.

[rik1138]

You might be right, but I'm pretty sure there were also "packages" (soft+hard+courses), at least some years ago.

Even still, that's a ONE TIME course... What makes you think the person asking the question is the one that was an employee of the company at the time it was purchased?

In the last 10 years, I've been the first DVD author at 3 different companies, and was there when they each purchased Scenarist (at my suggestion). _NONE_ of them came with any kind of training what-so-ever. Sure, we could have probably bought a course or paid to attend some kind of seminar at Sonic's offices, but that was extra and not one company I've worked ever paid for that, or even asked about it (I'm not even sure it would have been an option. Believe me, at my first job doing this I would have _loved_ that...).

After 1 year, the included 'Sonic Care' support expires unless you choose to pay for another year (many companies may not), at that time you can't even contact Sonic support and ask them questions, so that avenue is also gone.

I got into DVD authoring with absolutely no training at all, and had to learn it myself with Scenarist's (largely useless) manual, talking to whoever I could in the industry at the time, and asking questions on sites like this. I have never attended any kind of Sonic training for DVD, nor was it ever offered to me (by my employer), or even suggested that it exists (by Sonic).

Just because you have a legit copy of the software does NOT mean you can contact Sonic and ask them anything. The first thing they want to know is if your 'Sonic Care' is current, if it's not, they basically just say 'sorry, we can't help you'. Getting their support is a separate, OPTIONAL, charge that a lot of companies probably don't pay for, especially the little ones with only one copy of the software.

It also doesn't explain you everything, as the DVD specs are still NDA, and not bought with scenarist.

Actually, now that you mention it, this is probably why the manual is so... 'minimalistic'. :) They should offer a separate manual for people that have the DVD spec...