Scenario Editor (Scenarist) - Linking

[Deepa DvD]

Should I add more than 1 VTS? Or just have 1 VTS and add titles. I've noticed if you link from Title 1 Track (VTS1), you cant link to VTS 2, title 1 track.Also can someone Please explain -the whole process- where and how all the links and tracks should go in Scenario Editor.

Thanks In Advance!:)

[Jestorius]

Workout Doom9 tutorial, forget abouth ripping, encoding etc. In the tutorial there is an explonation for navigation. I have learned everything from the tutorial and from some users here. If you search the forum by my username you can finde some treads abouth Scenarist. I have learned the advanced use from these guyes.

The Scenarist manuall is also a good help. It has a section explaining the navigation structure. You don't have to read it 3 times as Domm9 is saying but you have to read it more than 10 times if you don't know what VideoManager, PGC, Cell etc. are. It seems to be difficult because at the beginning we don't know the meaning of most of it.

If you try to draw a link from one PGC to an other element than Scenarist is giving you a hint about what is permitted or prohibited.

Most projects are very simple. You start with a FirstPlay (FirstPGC). It has a link to somewhere in VTS_1. You can link it to anything you like. The VideoManger is empty if you start a new project. Add a Language and a PGC to it. It gonna be your TitleMenu. If your remote has a Title button than you are here after pressing it.

VTS_1 or _2 _x are folders to keep all your DVD elements.
Each VTS can have its own Menu (Language folder). During playing the DVD and pressing the Menu button you gonna jump here.

In a VTS you have Title->PGC->Program->Cell
A PGC has a Pre and Post section. It can be used to link from here to other PGC and Program in the same Title or other Title folder and Program in other Title folders.

After adding a Menu to the VideoManger/Language or VTS_1/Language you can see the Buttons with the Btns section on the right side. You can draw a link from here. Or just using the Simulation window you can add target to the buttons. Btns from here can be linked to the FirstPlay, other Menues in VTS or Titles in VTS.

From Menues in VTS you can link to the Menu in the VideoManager/Language, to Titles or Programs in the same VTS. That's it. Nothing more. You cant jump to other Programs in other VTS so here comes in the "use of DummyPGC".

Because you can jump from the VideoManager/Language/PGC to anywhere in your project and you can link to it from anywhere from your project than use of DummyPGCs in VideoManager can be used to make a very complicated navigation.

A DummyPGC is a placeholder for a navigation link or CommandList. Nothing else. It's empty.

If you wanna make a conditional navigation than use of CommandList is comming in the picture. It is a simple If..than ... programering. The manual gives you a help of how to use it.

The standalone has two sections. The SPRM and the GPRM. It is memorysections. Like a Bios and Ram in your Pc. We use GPRM to watch SPRM and to make some calculations or to store some values.
Let say your standalone is set up to use "XXXXXXXXXX" language. I can use a GPRM to check the value in the SPRM and regarding to your default language switch to "XXXXXXXXXX" language track.

The manual has a deep explonation of all these SPRMs and use of GPRM.

[Deepa DvD]

Thanks very much bro!:) I really really appreciate it! I understood it now, after reading your post rather then the mannual which I read at lest 8 times.

Now the thing is, I burned a DVD and it works great! Just as I wanted.Thanks to all of you who helped me.:) But the menus don't look good because they are still menus. I wanted to know how I can create Motion Menus. I have posted this Topic several times, but didn't get a full explanation. If you can explain that step-by-step (starting from Scratch) It would be wonderful!
Thanks Again for your help!:)

[Jestorius]

Different between still and motion menues is the background. Change the bgr. picture with a video and you get motion menu.

Take a look at Doom9's Scenarist tutorial. It has motion menu in the focus.

[Deepa DvD]

You mean the subpicture? And how do I make it like for example, I want a still but a rope in the middle (the rope is also a still) but I want to display video inside the rope.How can I do this?
Thanks bro!:)

[Jestorius]

Motion menues, animated buttons are just an illusion. All the elements you can see on the screen are composed together in a video editor like Aftereffects, Premier, SpeedRazor etc. But the final stream is an only one stream video.

Let say you have a button on a still or video and it casts shadow over the background. It doesn't cast anything , the shadow was made by you in some software.

So everything you know abouth making menues is the same for motion menu. The only different is that you can determine the start time for subpictures. (Doom9 tutorial ->) This way can you force the user to wait.

[Deepa DvD]

I think I got it!:) Now which program should I use to put a still background, resize the video (make it into a oval) and then put that on the still background.Then make my final video clip. Should I use Premiere? I tried Premiere LE but couldn't find a way put a still background, resize the video & make it into a oval.-I think this'Z because it's LE version. Right?


Thanks In Advance Bro! After I Learn how to create Proffesional Motion Menus <---That will change my life a lot!:) Thanks very much Jestorius!:)

[Jestorius]

Use Photoshop for stills and what ever NLE editor you have for video.

The video editor has an A and B track and more video tracks. These are for superimposing an element over an other. Put your still on track A and the video (the one you gonna play in the oval) on a video track (not B). Make scaling and positioning for the video and deside a matte or alpha mask for the video. Render the timeline.

That's it.

If the oval is a kind of keyholl than put the video on A. Make a 32bit Targa image with a trasparent oval and put this image on "not B" video track. Render the timeline.

[Jestorius]

http://forum.vcdhelp.com/userguides/92223.php

it is a Premier tutorial.

[Deepa DvD]

hi Jestorius!:)
I just made my first Motion Menu!!!!! Thank you very very much for helping me.I really really appreciate it!

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I am going to take it into Scenarist tomorrow 'cuz its getting late right now.And I'll post the results!:)