This is dealing specifically with the case when you have a main menu and a scene selection menu on your DVD, and you want to use a "transition video" for transitioning between the main menu and Scene Selection's Page 1 that both works consistently, and has no delay between the transition video and display of the scene selection menu.
A little background: Sony's DVDA doc suggests that for transitions, you create a button, set the button's "Action" to invoke the transition video (stored in the root of your project), then set the transition video's "End Action" to invoke the target. I've found this works fine for creating a transition between the main menu and playing the "all chapters" video. However when using this approach to create a transition between the main menu and "Scene Selection (page 1)", I've not been able to get it to work; it works fine in "Preview", but the rendered DVD image jumps directly from the main menu to Scene Select (page 1), without ever playing the transition video. (I'm using DVDA 3). Possibly you've experienced the same issue. Also, with this approach there is the potential issue of a delay or black screen after the transition video, while your DVD moves to the scene selection menu.
I have an alternative approach for creating a transition video between the main menu and Scene Selection that has worked well for me. It's a little bit of work, but I think it may be more error-proof for playing on DVD players, and has absolutely no delay between the video's end and the scene selection menu displaying.
- I set Scene Select (Page 1)'s Background to your transition video. The video should flow in this manner: Screenshot of the main menu, followed by your desired transition effect, followed by the Scene Select menu's background image. Then set the loop point to where the Scene Select menu's background image begins. With the approach I'm stating here, the transition video flows immediately into the scene select menu, with no delay.
- This creates one little "hiccup": The button from Page 2 that invokes Page 1 will of course cause the transition video to play again (since it's the background for Page 1). If you actually want that to occur, you're home free. If not, then you can eliminate it by doing the following: Right click the Scene Selection menu and select "Insert > New page". (Let's say your scene selection menu had 3 pages, so this new page is Page 4). Set the background of Page 4 to be the Scene Select menu's background image. DVDA auto-adds a link on Page 3 to invoke Page 4; remove that link (so Page 4 is now orphaned). Copy all chapters/buttons from Page 1 onto Page 4 (effectively making it a "duplicate" of Page 1). Finally, set Page 2's button that invokes Page 1 to instead invoke Page 4.
Hope someone gets some value out of this. It got me out of the weeds (my "main menu > transition video > scene select menu" was not working at all on multiple DVD players when I used Sony's approach), and eliminated any delay between the transition video and scene select menu appearing.
A little background: Sony's DVDA doc suggests that for transitions, you create a button, set the button's "Action" to invoke the transition video (stored in the root of your project), then set the transition video's "End Action" to invoke the target. I've found this works fine for creating a transition between the main menu and playing the "all chapters" video. However when using this approach to create a transition between the main menu and "Scene Selection (page 1)", I've not been able to get it to work; it works fine in "Preview", but the rendered DVD image jumps directly from the main menu to Scene Select (page 1), without ever playing the transition video. (I'm using DVDA 3). Possibly you've experienced the same issue. Also, with this approach there is the potential issue of a delay or black screen after the transition video, while your DVD moves to the scene selection menu.
I have an alternative approach for creating a transition video between the main menu and Scene Selection that has worked well for me. It's a little bit of work, but I think it may be more error-proof for playing on DVD players, and has absolutely no delay between the video's end and the scene selection menu displaying.
- I set Scene Select (Page 1)'s Background to your transition video. The video should flow in this manner: Screenshot of the main menu, followed by your desired transition effect, followed by the Scene Select menu's background image. Then set the loop point to where the Scene Select menu's background image begins. With the approach I'm stating here, the transition video flows immediately into the scene select menu, with no delay.
- This creates one little "hiccup": The button from Page 2 that invokes Page 1 will of course cause the transition video to play again (since it's the background for Page 1). If you actually want that to occur, you're home free. If not, then you can eliminate it by doing the following: Right click the Scene Selection menu and select "Insert > New page". (Let's say your scene selection menu had 3 pages, so this new page is Page 4). Set the background of Page 4 to be the Scene Select menu's background image. DVDA auto-adds a link on Page 3 to invoke Page 4; remove that link (so Page 4 is now orphaned). Copy all chapters/buttons from Page 1 onto Page 4 (effectively making it a "duplicate" of Page 1). Finally, set Page 2's button that invokes Page 1 to instead invoke Page 4.
Hope someone gets some value out of this. It got me out of the weeds (my "main menu > transition video > scene select menu" was not working at all on multiple DVD players when I used Sony's approach), and eliminated any delay between the transition video and scene select menu appearing.