how do i do this in Maestro.

[destemido]

i want to create a movie in maestro, with all the menus as the original... so far so good.
the movie in question is multi-pgc. but i want to make it single pgc... well kind of..
i want to have a First Play, an Intro to main menu, a Looping main menu and all the other menus...
the problem is that First play is DD 5.1 and the rest of the menus is DD 2.0

If i make another movie with the first play files. when i hit the resume movie button, i jump to the First Play movie, but i would really like to go the the REAL main movie.
i hope you understand my question...
and if the answer is in another thread, don't be shy to point it out!! (i was toooooo lazy to use the search button, and late!!!)

[oddyseus]

use the simulation window, the advanced panel where it displays all the SPRM, GPRMs.

Play the main movie and note the vts code in SPRM 6, pgc playing.

Then make a command sequence and exam sprm 6. If it isn't equal to the movie's then start the movie since it hasn't been started yet, else resume the movie, since u were allready there.

[destemido]

man i really need to learn how to work with command sequences!!!!
will try my best.

[destemido]

not quite what i wanted... because if i hit the resume button, it will be associated with the "first play" movie... unless i can "chose" which movie i want to resume, with the command sequence you suggested, right?????

[oddyseus]

Hello again.

Listen. Maybe I wasnt steering u to the right direction. sprm6 shows the pgc playing. sprm5 shows vts playing and perhaps this is what u should be monitoring or even better both of them if first play is a pgc on the main movie's vts.

So if 1st play resides on pgc1 then it is sprm6, if 1st play is in different vts then monitor sprm5.

Try and report back

[destemido]

i don't know what's wrong with that... it always shows Zeros in every sprm...
first play is in another vts.

[McPoodle]

I've never been able to get this to work 100 % to my satisfaction, but in general, what you want to do is use one of the GPRM's as a flag to tell you if a resume button on a menu should actually resume the current movie or start the main movie from scratch. This should work for your setup with just one main movie, but if you had, say, previews or multiple music videos, then it probably wouldn't.

Let's say your first play movie is called "Intro" and your main movie is called "Movie". We'll be using GPRM0 as the flag. A value of 0 means that resume buttons should play Movie from the beginning, while a value of 1 means that resume buttons should resume the current movie.

First, create a command sequence called "FirstPlay" with these commands:

[list=1]
MOV GPRM0, 0
Jump to Intro[1]
[/list=1]


Go to the Connections pane and change First Play to be the "FirstPlay" command sequence.

Now create a command sequence called "ResumeMovie" with these commands:

[list=1]
Resume if (GPRM0 = 1)
MOV GPRM0, 1
Jump Movie[1]
[/list=1]


Finally, change any and all resume buttons in menus to call the "ResumeMovie" command sequence instead of just Resume.

[oddyseus]

Hello there,

this is indeed a good example and my provide a solution to destemido, but it would always jump to main movie in chapter 1, whereas, I think, he would like to actually resume the movie.

I would suggest to change the jump command in the 2nd command sequence to resume and check if it works.

Furthermore an if statement that would check if the vts played lately is the one that main movie uses could be helpful.

[destemido]

will try that next weekend.