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Clown shoes
21st March 2004, 23:41
I am having a little problem making some multi aspect menus in Scenarist! I have created my still background and three different overlays, one each for widescreen, letterbox and pan and scan. the problem is getting Scenarist to recognise more than two ratios at any one time. One is always grayed out! If I select a 16:9 project, pan and scan is grayed out. If I select a Pan and Scan project, letterbox is grayed out! What am I doing wrong?

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GM006
23rd March 2004, 17:55
Well.... 16x9 video will ALWAYS letterbox on a 4x3 TV... so therefore only the L and W boxes are selectable... if the video is Pan-Scan then the player crops the sides off to make it full screen. In other words the video will NEVER letterbox if its set to pan-scan... and it will NEVER pan-scan if its' set to letterbox... so there is no use to have 3 sub streams for a menu. It will always be 2.
Clown shoes
23rd March 2004, 18:39
It's actually multi aspect menus I was talking about. I can produce working DVDs with wide and letter menus or wide and pan menus, but I wanted to be able to give the option of all three, depending on the veiwers choice. I would have thought it possible, but cannot work out how! :(

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dgoodbourn
24th March 2004, 16:33
The only way would be to have 2 menu sets, 1 letterbox and 1 pan-scan, and have the user select which one depending on their TV at the start of the DVD which would set which menu set to play through-out the DVD.
Clown shoes
24th March 2004, 18:00
No, I wanted it to be automated, depending on the players setting. It appears it can't be done then. Not a biggie really, just presumed it should be do-able. I could have sworn I had heard someone mentioning producing three overlays for menus. Oh well two it is then.

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dgoodbourn
24th March 2004, 18:32
You could possibly try using SPRM14 ("Player configuration for video"). Using it to set which menu set to use. Not sure how well it works though, and it would probably need a lot of testing, but might be worth a look. It generates the following values:

PAL 4:3L = 18
PAL 4:3P = 17
PAL 16:9L = 30
PAL 16:9P = 29

NTSC 4:3L = 2
NTSC 4:3P = 1
NTSC 16:9L = 14
NTSC 16:9P = 13

Let us know what happens. ;)