Play all?

buckv wrote on 7/15/2004, 11:59 AM
Question: Is there a way to? see below:
This is what I'm doing- I want a menu with a play Feature button(This will play from Chapter One to the end). I want a button for each song(I'm doing music videos), which will play only the video when selected and then link back to the menu. Last, I want a button that will play all videos right in a row and then go back to the menu. Reason, The feature has interviews in between videos and I want a way to bypass these if needed.
Any help would be appreciated. I do understand how to do the first two things with the ins and outs ,but I am confused on the Play all button.

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GaryKleiner wrote on 7/15/2004, 2:23 PM
If you want a Play All button that skips over some of the media, you need to create end actions from one bit to another.

Since you already have set the separate chapters with individual in/out to use for individual chapter play buttons, you cannot set the end actions on those or you will mess up the individual play.

If you make copies (duplicates) of the individual play chapters and set the end actions on THOSE to play one after the other, that should give you what you want.

Gary
MrMikeC wrote on 7/16/2004, 12:37 PM
I'm currently using DVD Workshop 2.0 and am having a similar issue I think with the "play all titles" function. the following is from a post I put up on a DVDWS2 forum. Will DVD Architect 2 fix this issue? see below:

Going back to the button issue: On my DVDs, as with most other DVDs there are two motion buttons on the main menu. One reads "Play the Video", the other reads "Segment Selection." Pressing Play the Video is linked to the play all titles function in DVDWS2. The segment selection button is linked to another menu wherein the user can select what chapter he wants to view. This is where the problem comes in. Assume the user presses play the video, he presses the button, chapter 1 starts, chapter 1 finishes, chapter 2 starts. When chapter 2 starts, he decides he wants to skip to the next chapter so he pushes the button ON his remote control to advance to the next chapter. Now assuming he's not having the other problem about the button not doing anything, he will go to the next chapter. So he watches this chapter all the way through and at the end, he is returned to the main menu. This is what I meant by saying that the "play all titles" function is disrupted when the user advances to the next and/or previous chapter via the remote control. Does it make more sense this time? I doubt a lot of people are going to watch it LIKE a movie because it's an instruction video tht will take some time to master because of the content, but still, I'd like to fix this if possible.

Mike
MrMikeC wrote on 7/17/2004, 11:42 AM
anyone know?
buckv wrote on 7/26/2004, 12:45 PM
How do I do this without making buttons to go along with the duplicates?
ScottW wrote on 7/26/2004, 1:11 PM
Ok; I'm assuming that everything has been rendered as one large MPEG/AC3 file and that you are using DVDA 2.0.

Start with a menu project.

Drag your movie onto the main menu. This will be your play-all button.

Then for each individual video that you want, drag the movie onto the menu again; double click on the button to navigate into the movie and set the appropriate in and out points.

Now, for your "play all videos without feature button", start by creating a sub menu off the main menu. navigate into the sub menu; delete the button that links you back to the main menu. Drag your movie onto the sub menu for each individual video. So if you have 5 videos, you'll have 5 buttons of the main movie on the sub menu.

navigate into each button and set in/out points on the movie for the appropriate music video.

Then, on the sub menu, select the end action for the first movie to link to the second movie; 2nd to 3rd, etc. You may need to set the end action from within the movie when you were setting the in/out points - I'm doing this from memory. The last movie will need to link back to the main menu (you don't want to come back to this menu, so you need to explicitly change the end action to link back to main).

I will say that I usually find it better to start naming my menus and movies before this point - so using the tree navigation window, I may change the name of the top menu to be "Main Menu" - the submenu would be "Play All Clips" for the name, or something like that. I do this because it's easier to identify exactly which item I want to link too. You get a bunch of menus running around and they all end up with the name "Menu" or "Movie" as the link name, and it's a pain to get the linking right.

Now, back at the sub menu; delete the background. Delete any title text. Change the button format of all the the buttons to "Text Only" and delete the text. For the sub menu, change the selected button/activated button color sets to "none" (again from memory, it's the last option on the color set selection drop down).

The sub menu will have an option to activate a button after timeout. Select the first movie button as the button to activate and change the timeout value to 00:00:00.29 (as low as you can go).

Now, go back up to your main menu and click preview.

When you click on the "Play all clips without Interviews" button you'll go to the submenu, but should almost immedietly go right to the first button/movie on that menu, which will play, link to the next, etc. and then finally bring you back to the main menu (assuming you got the linking right).

--Scott
buckv wrote on 7/26/2004, 2:30 PM
WOW, I think I got it. I hope Sony adds an easier way to do this in the future.
Thanks Scott