Thanks for answering.
I'll try to explain the project.
It's a film with only one vts that has 8 pgcs. Three of them are related to the main film and two extras (interviews and so on). The problem is that the other 5 are slides, that's to say, stills with filmografphies, notes, posters, etc.
OK, I demuxe it with Doitfas4U and I don't tick these 5 pgcs because I know that scenarist can't handle slideshows imported in that way.
At the end of the process I have three streams of video beautifully compressed and 5 dummy pgcs.
Fine, but I'm stubborn and want to keep these stills. So I demuxed the five pgcs by cell and add them manually in Scenarist, a lot of work, all the subpictures with buttons, links, etc. I realize that I can't delete the dummy pgcs from the project, because scenarist refuse to compile (and this is the origin of the whole problem).
So I add the stills as new cells to the dummy pgcs and the compilation goes perfect. The trouble appears with ifoupdate, logically.
The original pgc2, for instance, has 7 cells, but the one I've created has 8 (7 stills plus one dummy.m2v)
Second try:
I change the name of the first still in each pgc and rename it with the dummy.m2v names that had these 5 dummy files created by Doitfast4U. Now I have the right numbers of cells in each pgc.
But there's still a problem: If that dummy pgc (that is a still really) has a subpicture added (the one it needs to navigate with the buttons to the next cell) then scenarist refuses to compile.
Well, and that's all. I think stubbornness must have a limit. I'm not now in front of my PC but in half an hour I'll get home and try something easier: not to add these subpictures to the "dummy pgcs-first still" and let the viewer jump to the next cell with the remote.
What I don't understand is why scenarist compiles perfectly when you add a lot of cells to each dummy pgc from the project imported, and when you add a tiny subpicture to these same dummy pgcs it says no.
Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Last edited by Talayero; 14th January 2005 at 21:34.
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