Another how to question - scene selection this time

[mickrick]

I have created several Scene Selection menus in Scenarist. I thought it was just a matter of jumping from each scene menu to the cell in question via a dummy pgc, but this does not work.

How do I do this?

[dan]

Sorry if some of this seems like "duh, I knew that", but I can't tell
'where you are' in Scenarist...

To make the scene selection [also called chapter selection] menus work, be sure that the menus are in the same titleset as the movie. If the menus are the same aspect ratio as the movie [this situation will exist only if the movie is 4:3....most Hollywood movies are 16:9 anamorphic while the menus are 4:3panscan (search the forums for the panscan stuff if you're curious, or ask in your response here if you have a question that isn't in the archives)].....they can be in a title folder within the title set. BUT, "real" movies use a language domain within a title set to hold the menus...that way, the 4:3panscan menus can reside in the same title set as the 16:9 video. Of course, if you're using your own content, it may be in 4:3, so you don't need the language domain stuff, but having it present is the "right" way to do it.

So, make a language domain within titleset 1 [or whichever is containing the movie], place the menus in there [after taking care of the subpicture/highlight stuff, of course], then assign each button to the cells representing the chapters [or scenes, if that's how you'd like to call them] by dragging from the buttons tab within the Scenario Editor to the cell in question. Now you get working chapter selection menus without any tricky authoring steps.

Shout outs to UTec for straightening this out for me a little while ago...


Dan

[mickrick]

Excellent work, m8.

I don't suppose you could point me in the direction of adding multiple audio streams and buttons pointing to them now, could you?

[dan]

In the track editor, drag all the audio tracks you're interested in into the track corresponding to the main movie. They'll be added as "Audio X". Provided you have the menus set-up with the subpictures/highlights, for the button that will choose the audio track, go into the simulation window (or stay within the Scenario Editor, if you like that for assigning commands to buttons more) select the "Set Angle, Audio....etc." command. Once that's selected, it's pretty intuitive [intuitive? In Scenarist? Yep.]. If you want, you can set-up the audio selection to choose an audio track and simultaneously start playing the movie with that audio track by selecting the "link" checkbox and telling it where to jump.

Dan