'Play One' or 'Play All' PGC Menu Design

[insite]

Okay. I'm assembling a DVD containing multiple independant films. I have Scenarist and DVD Studio Pro at my disposal. In the menu for this DVD, I want to be able to select a single PGC (single film) to play (then jump back to the menu) OR have a 'Play All' Button that will play all of the movies beginning with the first. (like the Play One/Play All option some commercial DVDs use for deleted scenes)

I've got the individual films in separate PGCs, but can't figure out how to set the jumps to return to the menu after playing an individual film. For instance, if I choose the third film from the menu, it will play the third film AND all subsequent films. What I want is for it to play the third film and jump back to the menu.

Preferably, I'd like to be able to do this in DVD Studio Pro as I have all this stuff on a Mac, but Scenarist will do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dvdboy]

I'm not sure on the exact details as I don't have Scenarist open in front of me.

Basically you want to set a gprm to tell the player whether they are watching one film or all films.

When the user presses the play all button you want to set a gprm to say 1, and then play the first film.

When the film reaches the end and runs the post command you want to check this gprm. If it equals 0 then return to the menu as you selected an individual film. If it equals 1 then you are doing a 'play' all and it should go to the next movie.

On the last movie, 0 would return you to the films menu for example while 1 could return you to the main menu.

Hope that Helps

DVD-Boy

[insite]

Definitely a good start! Thanks!


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[auenf]

or, have 1 more PGC, that has all the movies end to end.

Enf...

[insite]

I am a dumbass. For some reason I was thinking that if I did an extra PGC with all the films, I'd have to import the video assets twice (doubling the DVD size). Apparently not. :-) Created one title with each film clip linked from the menu to the clip back to the menu. Created a second title with the films playing all start to finish. Haven't created the DVD yet, but this should work just fine.