Multi-Dimensional Chapter Menus

[WestbrookNH]

Is there a way to present two different chapter menus for the same MPEG file in the burn module?

I'm creating a retrospective slide show of the year 2006.

I'd like to be able to present a chapter menu that divides the slide show into months and another chapter menu that divides the slide show by events.

I haven't been able to figure a way to do this.

Likely that there is not a way to do this, but I thought I'd at least ask.

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[GeorgeW]

How long is the slideshow? If short enough (and space allows), it might just be easier to include two versions of the file -- one in EVENT order, and the other in MONTH order...

Regards,
George

[blplhp]

George's response got me to thinking in a little bit of a different direction. It¡¦s not so much as a limitation on the VS chapter menu capability as it is a limitation in the chapter points themselves. In order for you to have to these two chapter menus, you would have to have two different sets of chapter points on one video file.

You could try this: VS will give you only one chapter sub-menu with each video file in the authoring timeline. Since you only have the one video file, you will only get one chapter sub-menu. Choose the appropriate template to your liking, and choose to have 6 video thumbnails or 6 text lines per menu. Select your 12 chapter points based on the 12 months of the year. VS10 will then give you two pages within your one chapter sub-menu, 6 on the first page and 6 on the second page. Go back to your chapter selecting page and then select chapter points of your "events". These should hopefully appear on page 3 and so on of the same chapter sub-menu. The only thing I'm not sure what VS will do is if you choose an event say in February, based on the timecode of that event in your video file, will VS place that chapter between your January chapter and February chapter on page 1 of your chapter menu, or will it place your event chapter after the December chapter point because you selected this event chapter point after you selected the December chapter point. It all depends where VS places your 13th chapter selection. If its strictly timecode based, it won¡¦t work. If its sequentially based, it just might work. If it works, at least you will have a separate page within the chapter sub-menu for your events and they will be kept separate from the monthly chapter points. Let us know if this works or not.

[WestbrookNH]

George, the slideshow will be more than an hour, with zooming, panning, and music, so two versions on the same project on one DVD with best quality is not feasible.

blplhp, your idea sounds like it has legs.


I will definitely try that and report back to the forum by updating this thread.

I'm still about a month away from being done, because we are creating our own music.

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