Scenarist Button Help

[merlin001]

Ok, I've got a question. I've got my assets registered and my menus created. When I simulate the project, the main menu works as planned, but when I select a title menu, the second button is highlighted instead of the first. How do I change this?

Thanks,
David

[Crazyjoe]

Originally posted by merlin001
Ok, I've got a question. I've got my assets registered and my menus created. When I simulate the project, the main menu works as planned, but when I select a title menu, the second button is highlighted instead of the first. How do I change this?

Thanks,
David

Is your title menu a still or an animated menu? When it's a still, you can easily avoid it. Go to the simulation window, select the "Subpicture & Highlight" tab, in the drop-down menu select "Highlight". The drop-down menu next to the last on that page should read "Forced Selected Button #". There select the button number, which should automaticly be highlighted, when the menu is called.

If your menu is animated, you have to decide. Because when you set this option to a button number, that button is highlighted every time the animation loops. So when you set it to button 1 and you selected button two, while the menu is playing, than it will be set back to button 1 as soon as the animation loops.

[merlin001]

It's animated. Basically, I used Premiere to create a chapter menu with motion buttons & background. I've got a blue box that only shows on the selected option (the others set to a contrast of 0). I've set the forced button number to nonexistent because I read somewhere that doing this will eliminate the default chosen option when the menu loops. It's not critical, but would be nice to figure out.

Thanks,
David

[Crazyjoe]

That's what I told you. When it's animated you have to choose "Nonexistend". Otherwise the default button is highlighted everytime the animation loops.

You have another possibility. Put your animated Menu twice on the DVD. The first time the animation runs through with your default highlighted button, and after the animation jump to the second copy of the menu. In the second copy you can loop the video and set the default button to "Nonexistend".

That's the only solution I could figure out so far. :) That's the same as with the use of "dummy PGCs". Sometimes you have to do some "tricks" to ship around the DVD Specs... ;)