Animate in Menu - Then jump to a special position of Animation

[krieger2005]

Hi,

i've seen this in several DVD's. You know the effect of the "blend-in-Menu". I mean with this a short movie, which were played when you go from one menu to an other. So menu1 -> blend -> menu2. But The music of menu2 start playing when the blend starts!

Now when you select in menu2 some other menu (for expample menu3) and want then back to menu2 the blend which i described above should not displayed.

Now i have a problem. I can make jumping from menu3->menu2 whithout the blend, but when i go from menu1->menu2 the sound between the blend and menu2 break for a while. The other opition is to show everytime this blend, but i don't want this.

I made till now a copy of the menu2, one with the blend and one without. But there must be an other solution, because i seen it on a DVD.

I know this it is possible to make this without the sound-break, but how?

I use DVDMaestro.

krieger2005

[Msc_Alex]

How does the menu play on your HD ? I know this is a problem when you Burn a dvd, you would not have this problem with a Pressed dvd.

[influenza]

I think it's impossible that the music of menu2 is already playing during the transition. So I woukld either guess that the audio is duped in the transition video or that it's part of the menu and that when you go from menu 3 to 2 an other menu is played.

[krieger2005]

Originally posted by Msc_Alex
How does the menu play on your HD ? I know this is a problem when you Burn a dvd, you would not have this problem with a Pressed dvd.
I tied this only on the HD. So i don't know how it play on the DVD-Player ;).

Originally posted by influenza
I think it's impossible that the music of menu2 is already playing during the transition. So I woukld either guess that the audio is duped in the transition video or that it's part of the menu and that when you go from menu 3 to 2 an other menu is played.


this is what i'm tried. However, i think one can make this work only with one menu2. The people can make it on the pressed DVD, why not all users at home? As i know they use DVDMaestro and such programs also, so this could be done with this programs. Maybe they make a chapter-like splitted menu... But i does not find something like that in DVDMaestro.

krieger2005

[auenf]

its possible to do what your saying, the 'blend' and 'menu2' are created as a single menu, and the loop point (button highlight start) is put in at the start of 'menu2'. that way, the dvd doesnt actuall seek from blend-> menu2, it just continues playing the single menu.

you can also do it on a timeline with button highlights, and the end action set to a chapter point you specify in the middle of the two files. (and i have seen it done that way on a DVDMaestro authored title)

btw, the 'transitions' that are part of DVDSP3 dont work this way, it creates separate menus for the transitions.

Enf...

[Msc_Alex]

Originally posted by auenf
you can also do it on a timeline with button highlights, and the end action set to a chapter point you specify in the middle of the two files. (and i have seen it done that way on a DVDMaestro authored title)

Cool, but don't you get the timer running in your standalone instead of the normal "ROOT" Display ?

[influenza]

Can't rememeber seeing an option like that in scenarist if you're gonna use that. But you could split the menu into two segments and play those to suit your needs. Transition should be seamless.

[dvdboy]

Krieger,

DVDMaestro gives you an option for a loop point so that you can have a video with an intro (or transition) which only plays the first time. There is no way to jump to that point so you are better either doubling up on your menus, or doing the transition 'blend' as a seperate movie and control whether you see it or not by GPRM.

Scenarist gives you the option to build seperate elements or cells for your menus, which you can then use the pre-command to decided what you just to or what button you highlight.

DVD-Boy