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knoblauch
10th April 2005, 17:11
All I want to do is add some buttons at a specific start time location during a motion menu loop.

I have created a track with 3 scenes. added 3 subpics to these 3 scenes. made some button highlights for the last 2 scenes where I want these button activated. And at the cell cmd of the 3rd scene I let it jump to the 3rd scenes to continue menu loop.

All these are done in most of comercial dvd menus as I saw. And in the simulation mode I tested the menu loop, it works as what I planed.

The problem comes when I compiled the dvd project and use windvd to watch it. The button never shows during playback.

I used pgcedit to check the loop menu, it tolds me that there is no menu in the pgc which just looked fine during simulation mode before!

Ok I copied the highlight from scene 3 to the first one, so all three scenes has its own button highlight, and updated these in scenario mode. Recompile the dvd project.

Using windvd watching, this time the buttons appears in the first scene of that loop menu, but there are no buttons again in the 2nd and 3rd scene. After checking using pgcedit, I found there are no buttons in 2nd and 3rd cells in that pgc.

So what have I done wrong? why doesn't scenarist compile the button highlights of 2nd and 3rd cells into the output?

by the way, I used scenarist 3.0.0


P.S.: I know you can make two menus for this one menu, one for the movie part, one for the looping menu part. But what I tried above should also work, isn't it?

Zeul
11th April 2005, 08:10
Scenarist is a PITA for highlights. To ensure that the buttons are actuall created in compile (they will always show in preview mode), make sure that the scenes are >1s in length and that the start of the sub/highlight either start at the begining of the cell exactly or are >14 frames from the cell start.
so:
scene location: 00:00:30:00
sub/highlight either start at 00:00:30:00 or > 00:00:30:14
if you put them between 30:00 and 30:14 they will show on preview but never actually get created in the VOB!

knoblauch
11th April 2005, 09:41
Wow, thank you Zeul! My problem was exactly what you said above. I checked those highlights last night, one of them was ONE frame after the scene beginning. Now everything works fine ;)

mpucoder
11th April 2005, 15:29
@Zeul :goodpost:

Zeul
11th April 2005, 19:14
glad i could help