Linkining different VTSs in Scenarist

[GM006]

I'm trying to re-create X-Men 1.5 and I'm having trouble getting Scenarist to "Jump" to the Deleted Scenes and Behind the Scenes Stuff. The main movie has an subtitle that displays for about 1 sec. then branches off to a deleted scene. It also contains a button (in the same subtitle track) that jumps to another VTS Menu PGC and plays a Behind The Scenes Feature... my question is - How do I get it to jump back and forth from the main movie? And how do I turn this feature "on" and "off"? I can't use the original menu/ifos... as I took the menu apart and rebuilt it in Scenarist...
Thanks

[ultimatebilly]

To jump to another vts, you have to go over a "dummy pgc" in the video manager.
Add a language to the VMG, then create a pgc in it...
You can link now from the button in your movie-vts to the dummy pgc (link to pgc in system space), and create a pre command in your dummy pgc which says "go to the title with the extra I want to play...".
I don't know what you exactly mean with "turn the feature on or off", but you can use GPRMs for that...
If you would for example like your subtitles with the button only to show under certain circumstances, you could add a command, select "select subpicture ID", then check compare, and put something like "if GPRM0>0" in it...
Now you could define a button which plays the movie, and sets GPRM0 to 1, then your subpicture stream would show up, and a button without the GPRM0-assignment, and your subpicture stream wouldn't show up...
This is only meant to be an example, you have to play with it of course...
Hope this helps...

PS.: I'm sure you would have found the dummy pgc thing with a search...

[GM006]

Thanks for your help. I actually found the Dummy PGC stuff in the Scenarist help file... its a very little paragragh... anyways, my next question is how, after this dummy pgc goes to the title... how do i get it to play the correct PGC as I can't just link it straight to it. Do I create another dummy pgc in the selected VTS (VTS02) and link that to the correct PGC?

[ultimatebilly]

I am in no way a scenarist pro myself...
I think what you have to do is to either put the specific asset in its on vts, or, better, to add a language to the title, add a dummy PGC to it, and define the PGC as a menu (root-menu for example)...
You can link now to it directly from the system-space PGC...

[influenza]

The jumps are done in the movie vts set, so the fact that you do not have the original menu anymore doesn't matter too much.

I think it's done with button over video. I suggest you first read the guide about this on www.doom9.org (it's about the matrix)http://www.doom9.org/mpg/ButtonOverVideo.htm

It's a little bit of speculation since I don not have the title, but probably you have two or more subtitle streams.

1)just normal subtitles
2)some kind of symbols to warn you that you can activate a special feature. this is the button over video stream. You have to recreate the buttons and command to jump to the special.

Activating this feature would thus mean selecting the right subtitle track from your menu.

I think it's easiest to reauthor using the original ifo files for the different vts sets and using the guide I mentioned.

You probably also have to edit some post commands in the original ifo that reference to the main menu (maybe they reference to certain cells that do not exist anymore). Just make it jump to the title menu I guess

[GM006]

Thanks for the tips... I have button over video down... its quit easy to get make it and get the subs activated from the menu. All that is finished. 10 (out of 16) of the features are 16:9 so I took the easy way out on those. The next trick, to get my main movie to branch off automatically to the Deleted Scene, then come back to the main movie... How would I do that? Do I make it a button that has automatic action? The Deleted Scenes are 4:3 so therefore they must be in a different VTS folder.

[influenza]

You won't find the command in the ifo. The command is in the vob set. What you can find is the register value in the ifo. So far all my button over video titles used the same command as described in the button over video guide. The only difference is the register value

****ignore this please, I was thinking I replied to an other thread********