URGENT: "Back to Menu" for chapters in sub-menu

Gwenn · Post by **Gwenn** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:37 am

Hi everyone

I'm putting together a promotional video for my friends and have to send it out soon. Will be very grateful if any guru who see this post can help me out with an annoying issue.

I've read every tutorial and trawled through all the posts on Video Studio 10+ but haven't found any answer.

My DVD menu consists of a Main Menu containing 2 hotspots: "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection".

I've toggled the Share/Create Disc/Project Settings so that by clicking on "Play Movie", my entire presentation will play from start to finish and then return back to Main Menu.

By clicking on "Scene Selection", my Main Menu will transit to my Sub Menu containing thumbnails of 4 different scenes. I earlier created these scenes with the "Auto Add Chapter" function.

The problem is, no matter what I do in the Share/Create Disc/Project Settings, by clicking on each scene, that scene will play but instead of returning back to Sub Menu after the clip ends, it carries on to the next clip, and the next, and the next, until the end of the last clip.

What must I do in order to get the clips to return back to Sub Menu instead of playing to the movie's end?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:45 pm

I think you answered your own question when you stated "I've toggled the Share/Create Disc/Project Settings so that by clicking on "Play Movie", my entire presentation will play from start to finish and then return back to Main Menu." Remember, VS is mainly a video editor that can do a little DVD authoring. I don't think VS can do what you want. Maybe someone more familiar with Movie Factory or DVD Workshop can tell you if either of those products will do it.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:54 pm

Hi

The ‘Navigation Controls’ work on the main menu.

For each video file/clip that you add you get one link/thumbnail in the main menu page.

Each of the video files/clips can have chapters/scenes applied.

Again the navigation controls only affect the main menu.

The default setting being ‘Auto Repeat when………. (this will play forever)
Deselect this option and select ‘Continue to play next clip’
This will play all videos then return to the main menu

Select ‘Back to Menu’ and only one video will play then return to menu.

What must I do in order to get the clips to return back to Sub Menu instead of playing to the movie's end?

If you need go to the main menu, you have to use individual videos not Chapter Points.

Trevor

Gwenn · Post by **Gwenn** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:09 pm

Thanks everyone!

I realised what I must do shortly after making my post. As Black Lab says, Video Studio 10+ can't return sub-chapters to sub menus. And as Trevor says, the only way this can be done is via new individual video clips and not chapter points. The drawback is you can't have a sub menu which operates exactly like the main menu, which makes it quite limited if the movie is a complex one.

At any rate, I rearranged my DVD menu again, this time having only one menu, with one button for playing the full movie, the next four buttons for playing each scene of the movie as a separate "chapter", and by toggling to "Back to Menu", the menu works the way I want it to. Only drawback is, I can't have my main menu, which is quite a shame since I put quite a bit of effort into it. I wonder can Media Studio Pro accomplish what Video Studio can't?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:46 pm

I wonder can Media Studio Pro accomplish what Video Studio can't?

MS Pro does not have any authoring capabilites. You need to look into DVD Workshop or Movie Factory, as I stated in my earlier post.

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:29 am

Hello Gwenn,

You said in your original post...

My DVD menu consists of a Main Menu containing 2 hotspots: "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection".

How did you get two hot spots on your Main Menu? Do you have 2 video files in the timeline? And what DVD menu template are using for your Main Menu? Was it one of the default menus provided in VS10+?

Gwenn · Post by **Gwenn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:40 am

Hi blplhp

What I did in the beginning was to put 2 two video files on my timeline, the second one to which I added chapters. That was how I got two hotspots on my "main menu". I used one of Ulead's templates and replaced the white background with my own moving background.