DVD Meastro Chapter Question

[Acerjen]

When I author a DVD in Maestro, when the DVD player (software and hardware) gets to the end of any given chapter it goes back to the main menu. I have tried to avoid this by editing the config box where you can tell it where to go if you press the menu key at any time. There you can tell it where to go after each chapter. When I do this, it does go to the next chapter, but there is a slight pause before doing so. I must be doing something wrong, because I don't see any posts about people having this problem. So any help you all can give me is greatly appreciated.

Also, does anyone know of a guide somewhere that explains how to do motion menus. Like T2 or the Matrix, where you go to the chapter index and the chapter windows within the menu are in motion. I know thos are little MPEG2 clips, but how do you insert them in Maestro. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Later.


Acerjen

[slk001]

In your CONNECTIOINS window, leave the CHAPTER ENDING ACTION option box empty. Then your DVD will default to the next chapter (which is what you want). I guess that when you put something in this box, it requires the player to find out what you want, then find the address of what you want, then go there. Since the addresses are in the main VIDEO_TS.IFO file, there will be a pause while the player moves the read head over to this file to find the address of the next sector.

As for motion menus, the menus that you mentioned are not a bunch of "little MPEG clips", but only one clip made up of the many little MPEG clips. I have only made motion menus containing just one video in the background. There may be other, more easy methods, but the way I would tackle multiple videos would be to use LAYER and MASK commands to create a video with the first clip, encode this, then again for the second clip, then encode this, etc, etc, until I was out of clips. There are programs that probably can do this, but I am not familiar with them.