I have a movie with a slideshow and a video i need help

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:47 pm

It's one picture. I want to show it for 5 seconds then have the movie begin. It previews fine on the computer but on the DVD player after it's burned the picture is displayed for half a second then the movie starts. I tried doing the slideshow for 8 seconds but still it was only half a second long. What's wrong?

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:51 am

No one knows the answer to this?

rwernyei · Post by **rwernyei** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:24 am

Do you want the picture to show for 5 seconds and then go to the main menu to play your movie or have the image as the intro to your video? First way would be to create slideshow and set image duration to 5 seconds and check the first play box. If it is the latter, use your video editor and set the image duration and then merge with video and render out MPEG2 and then import compliant file into DVDMF.

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:55 pm

It won't let me merge it for some reason... I want it to be the intro to my video.

rwernyei · Post by **rwernyei** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:05 pm

Use your video editor and insert image. Set duration time to 5 seconds. Then insert video. On the timeline you should have your image first and the video lined right up against it. Merged. Then create file and encode to MPEG2. Now, import into DVDMF and author to disc.

zrvl · Post by **zrvl** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:53 pm

silva086,

Did you ever get this fixed. I'm having the same problem.

If I create a video slideshow, it plays back as set up.

If I try to use this as the first video in a compilation, it plays only for a split second and then the second video plays.

Attempts at entering a slideshow with video react the same way.

If I check the file information on the video created from the slideshow, it shows a duration of only .033 seconds while the video is actually 33 seconds long (set to play the same duration as a sound file included with the slide).

This is driving me crazy. I'm pretty sure I've done this before but have recently upgraded to a faster machine with Windows XP. Could that be the problem.

Any help would be appreciated.