Making a "Play All" button.

[thief_]

I have around 10 AVI clips which I have imported into Sony DVD Architect. I have created the Sub Menu for Chapter Selection, but I'm stuck on what is probably the most simple item- creating the "Play All" button.

What I want to do is, when the "Play All" button is pressed, the 10 video clips will play, one after the other, showing the whole movie. But the only way I can see this working is by loading all the clips into ONE HUGE AVI file and importing that into the project and linking that to the "Play All" button.

Any help would be welcome.

[influenza]

On most (or all) commercial dvds the layout for such thing is as follows:

pgc1
clip1

pgc2
clip2

etc

Play all
One pgc with all clips combined.

This won't mean that you'll use double the space btw. You're just reusing the same video through different pgcs.

I don't know if your software is capable of doing that. I know that dvd-lab pro has also an easy solution for that. You create different movies for all video clips and after that you create a playlist in which you add all individual clips. You set the play all button to play this playlist. This is very easy to accomplish in dvd-lab pro.

You can download a fully functional 30-day trial here. (http://www.download.com/DVD-Lab-Pro/3000-7970-10334208.html?part=dl-DVDLabPro&subj=dl&tag=button)

[frigga]

Does anyone know how to do this with Maestro?

Originally posted by thief_
I have around 10 AVI clips which I have imported into Sony DVD Architect. I have created the Sub Menu for Chapter Selection, but I'm stuck on what is probably the most simple item- creating the "Play All" button.

What I want to do is, when the "Play All" button is pressed, the 10 video clips will play, one after the other, showing the whole movie. But the only way I can see this working is by loading all the clips into ONE HUGE AVI file and importing that into the project and linking that to the "Play All" button.

Any help would be welcome.

[frigga]

I found the answer in another forum:
Use playlists. Make a playlist for each movie, by right clicking the movie. Set up the end action for the last chapter of each regular movie to follow each other (and the last one to go the main menu so it doesn’t loop forever. By the way, the next and previous key assignments seem to supersede the end action assignments.) Use this chain to link the play all link to. Then for the individual movie links, link them to the playlist versions of the movies, and change the end action of the last chapter of the playlist version to return to the main menu. (It will not work the other way, playlist settings override main movie settings, but not vice versa. The main movie settings set the general settings and then only a limited amount of override is allowed through the playlist versions.)