Getting chapter to stop after play.

[DngrsDan]

Drivin' me nuts (Ok...who's the wise guy who yelled "Short trip!") I have the navigation control in Project settings set to Clip playback: back to menu. But when I run the preview and click on one of the clips it will continue to play the following clip after it finishes rather than returning to the menu. The burned DVD does this too.
I am using VideoStudio 11 +, I had been using 10 previously and was able to make this work, it's been a while since I've made a video so I may have forgotten how I did this then. What am I missing?

Thanks,

DD

[GeorgeW]

You would need separate video clips to do what you are describing (in VideoStudio). A single clip with multiple "Chapter marks" will let you jump to a specific "chapter" (or scene), but playback will continue until the end of that Title clip (i.e. video clip).

Regards,
George

[sjj1805]

For further information please view:
Authoring a DVD

[DngrsDan]

George,
thanks for responding. However.....they ARE different clips, not just chapters in the same clip. I could understand it NOT going back to the menu if it was, but I have 4 different clips in the project.

[DngrsDan]

Steve,
thank you for posting all the information on authoring a DVD.
However what instructions you posted concerning my question:
"
Clip playback:
Select whether to play the next clip or go back to the menu after playback ends. This option is disabled when Auto repeat when playback ends is selected.

"
is what I asked about not working. And, no, I do not have Auto repeat enabled. It doesn't quit and go back to the menu after the clip is played.

DD

[GeorgeW]

Do you have any other options checked? Such as "Play all clips first before menu"

Are you coming from the VS Timeline, or are you going to the DVD Program, and adding separate clips

Regards,
George

[DngrsDan]

George,
no other options are checked. I'm not sure what you're asking about the VS timeline......I added the clips to the timeline then went to the Share tab and started to create the DVD from there.
I BELIEVE this is the same thing I used to do with VS 10, been a while, may have forgotten I did something else first.

Does that help?

Thanks for your time.

DD

[GeorgeW]

If you add 4 clips to the timeline in VS, they become ONE clip when you take that timeline into the DVD Module. This is different than if you go to the DVD Module, and add the 4 separate clips individually.

Regards,
George

[DngrsDan]

George,
then how do I add text, transitions, and music then? I seem to remember that I always made up my DVD's in the timeline-because I added all those things there before going into the DVD creator section. I would add the various clips and different effects in there then burn it.


Notice the confused look on m'face?

Thanks again for your time.

DD

[DngrsDan]

Maybe I'm answering this myself......would adding everything in the timeline then clicking over to the DVD module (I'm assuming that's the one where it tells you to drag and drop clips here? Is the DVD module the Storyboard view?) before starting the DVD creation fix my problem?

[DngrsDan]

What is the DVD module? I tried the Storyboard mode to create the DVD and it switches back to the timeline mode when I hit the Share tab.

[Ken Berry]

If you want four separate videos (called "titles" in video editing parlance) on your final DVD, you have to have four separate projects. So you have your video for Title 1 in the timeline (or storyboard) of the Editing Module. You make your cuts, add transitions, titles (in the sense of word overlays), music etc. Then our advice is that you go to Share > Create Video File > DVD. Note that this converts your project to DVD compatible mpeg-2. You then do the same with the other three projects.

Then, when you have all four mpeg-2s, go to File and start a new project. Don't bother about giving it a name -- the objective is to clear the timeline (or storyboard). Then when you have an empty timeline, you select Share > Create Disc > DVD, and the burning module opens. (That is what is meant by the DVD module...)

You select the Add Media button in the top left of the burning screen and manually add each of the new mpeg-2s to the burning "timeline" in the order you want them on the final DVD. Note that it is the new mpeg-2s you add and NOT the four project files...

Then you select your menu template. Note that now you will have four separate icons or titles on the main menu page. You can then break each of them down into chapters if you want. And doing it this way means that Steve's excellent tutorial above will make more sense, and the Return to Main Menu etc buttons should all now work as advertised.

Finally, the timeline view main video channel should show a long continuous depiction of a whole project, and you can zoom down to individual frames if you want. The storyboard view on the other hand will only show a single icon for each video clip in a project plus any transitions you add between them. The storyboard view in effect is only to compose your ... er ... story in general terms. You switch to timeline view to do the fine editing. But both are part of the Editing Module. The burning (DVD) module is a separate sub-program.

And finally, I should note that you can still do it your way (i.e. editing in the timeline then jumping straight to the burning module and inserting the project file) BUT if you want four separate titles in the menu, you still have to have four separate projects each saved separately. And when you have saved each of them (but not converted each to a separate mpeg-2), you do as I outlined above -- start a new project to empty the timeline, then open the burning module, then use the Add Project File button to add each of the 4 project .vsp files to the burning module, then proceed as above.

However, we suggest that it is better to first produce a separate mpeg-2 for each project and use them. Too many things can and do go wrong when you expect the burning module to do its 'normal' things, which are already complex enough, without adding the requirement that it also convert the project files to video on the fly as part of the burning process. (I take it you realise that project files are NOT video files -- they are only text files which tell Video Studio what video files are included in a project, where they are located on the computer and what editing has been done to them.)

[DngrsDan]

Ken,
thank you for all your information. It is truly appreciated.

As I've stated it's been a while since I've done this myself, I just don't remember doing it as you instructed. But it's possible that I did do it that way previously. Made each section as an mpeg, with the music added, and then brought them in and added the transitions, etc.
I know I've done it before (had the clips end after playing and returning to the menu), it's just that I couldn't remember HOW I did it!

Again, thanks for your help. I'll give what you suggested a go this weekend.

DD

[Ken Berry]

Made each section as an mpeg, with the music added, and then brought them in and added the transitions, etc.

That is NOT what I suggested at all. My suggestion is to do four discrete, totally separate projects, doing ALL the editing (titles, transitions, music, voliceovers, etc) in each and producing an mpeg-2 of each project. Each is stand-alone.

If you produce 4 separate mpegs but put them all back in the editing timeline together and add transitions and proceed as you have already done, you will only end up with one file (either a new mpeg-2 containing all four videos or a single project file which is inserted in the burning timeline) and you start all over again with your original problem...