Scenarist - IG delaying appearance

[paulspurrier]

Hi there.
This seems like such a simple and stupid question, but it's got me fazed.

My top menu has a background video and an IG menu.

All works fine.

Problem is this:

The background video has a long fade in from black.

It looks a bit awkward when the graphics menu appears before the fade up has completed.

So I want to delay the IG graphics stream from appearing, by about two seconds.

How can I do that?

The PTS start time is grayed out.

There is no place to put in an offset for IG streams.

The user guide is of course notoriously useless.

I did think that that acquisition point interval would perhaps do this, but changing the value has no effect whatsoever.

Should I perhaps change this into a pop-up menu?
It's just the user-guide states that top menus are usually 'always on'.
If I change it into a pop-up menu, how do I set a time for it to appear. The PTS is still greyed out.

Help.

Paul

[2themax]

The best way to handle this is to set the menu to always on and non-multiplexed. Then to get the 2 second delay, add an in-effect that animates a transparent png file (at least 8x8 pixels) for 2 seconds. After the 2 seconds, the menu buttons will appear.

[Eric69]

Im trying to find where to set the Effects In Time? I want to delay the appearance of the IG for 14 secs.

Ive added the In Effect but confused on where that setting is?

Thanks

[div007]

Hello Paul,

No need to change your Top menu “Always” into Pop up,

Attached is the jpeg for your notice, explained in the 3 steps for delay an IG in Top Menu.

1) Select your Dummy page in Top Menu IG, Create Virtual Window # 1 & Effect # 1 in InEffect.
2) Select Composite _Object # 1 in IGEffect Editor.
3) Give duration for your delay in IG.

Follow the above 3 step, your IG will get delay on main menu Video as per your requirement.