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swattum wrote on 4/3/2003, 11:00 AM
I don't think you can. Another option though might be to put your main menu background image as the first frame in your background video. If it's only one frame long, it's not likely to be seen when play starts - once at the end of a non-looped video, DVDA seems to return to the first frame of the video.
way2slo wrote on 4/3/2003, 11:15 AM
yeah, sounds right to me, i never thought of it.
i will give it a try tonite, let u know whats going on.
thanks!
swattum wrote on 4/3/2003, 4:31 PM
I was just trying this, and both WinDVD and my Sony DVD player are stopping on the last frame on the background video. I was mislead by what I was seeing on some other material I had.

So it looks like you should just be able to have your last few frames be your menu picture.

Sorry about that.
way2slo wrote on 4/3/2003, 8:13 PM
swattum
i just tried it and it works on DVD-A preview. do you mean i might have problem playback on a dvd player?

you rock :)
thanks again
swattum wrote on 4/3/2003, 8:34 PM
I'd try it on actual playback just to be sure you have what you want. My source material was fooling me.
way2slo wrote on 4/3/2003, 9:21 PM
what i did is, i cut the last frame and paste it at the beginning. render as mpeg-2, import in DVD-A, preview the clip, playback the whole media, when it stops, it goes back to the first frame(copy from the end frame). so i think i m ok then.

thanks a lot for your help
yirm wrote on 4/6/2003, 1:28 PM
I did this. Even though in the DVDA preview, the last frame turns black, on my DVD player, the last frame sticks, as desired.

Another way of doing it would be to use an introductory video and have the last frame of that video be a static bg image for the menu.

-Jeremy