Motion menu shows first 30 seconds of each menu-item, anyway

martindekker · Post by **martindekker** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:39 pm

Hi,

The items of a motion menu always start playing at the very beginning of the concerning video-clip, even if I set it to start at another point in the movie. Anyone else experiencing this?

Martin

randazzo · Post by **randazzo** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:19 am

It's not possible to let it start at any other point in VS9. You will need Moviefactory 4 for this. (Or perhaps VS10).

Jean-Pierre

RussellH · Post by **RussellH** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:53 am

So why do they provide the option then? I noticed that as well.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:50 am

Changing the picture to be displayed in the menu does not change the start point of a clip - merely the picture shown on the menu.

martindekker · Post by **martindekker** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:02 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the reply... I have MF4, but haven't used it yet. So I guess I have to start playing around with it. Still odd that the option is in VS9, but not working. It's not very clear from the UI that this is just for still images (haven't tried that one, but that always worked in VS8).

Martin

martindekker · Post by **martindekker** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:12 pm

Brian,

As I may not have been very clear in my starting post, just to be clear... I would like each preview in the motion menu to start at an exact point in the linked movie. When clicked on the preview in the menu, the connecting movie should start from the beginning.
I mean, that always worked for still images as well, one could pick an image from any point in the movie and have that as a thumb in the menu. The movie would then indeed start at the beginning when clicked on the thumb.
Anyway, it's not that important

It's just that I normally have my movies fade in from black and now in the motion menu it means that every 30 secs all thumbs go to black, which does not look smooth. I'll see if MF4 supports what I would like to see.

Martin

randazzo · Post by **randazzo** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:59 pm

Martin,

Het is zoals het is. Deze optie wordt pas bij MF4 geboden.

Jean-Pierre

martindekker · Post by **martindekker** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:01 pm

Thanks all for your help... I managed to get it the way I wanted, using MF4. Cheers!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:11 am

After editing my video footage with Video Studio, I use DVD Workshop to create the DVD itself.

I too like to have motion clips on my menus that point to somewhere other than the very start of the film (with the fading in etc) and also motion clips other than thumbnail representations of the sub-menus.
I achieve this by creating the DVD and including underneath (or alongside) the motion clip, a text link.

I then create the DVD burning it to the hard drive. I then use another piece of software called Menuedit to remove the "Motion buttons".
http://menuedit.dimad.net/home.html

This leaves the motion thumbnails in place but they can no longer be selected. All your navigation is done via the text only links.

Using this method I have made several very pleasing menu's.