hold display on last frame

jbarchuk · Post by **jbarchuk** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:51 pm

Hi All!

At the end of a vid I have a title/credits screen, created from a clipped frame and edited further with text and such.

I would prefer that last frame to stay displayed until the *user* decides to shut things off. There's a web address and email addresses and if the user would like to write them down elsewhere they have only the 10 seconds I set that last frame to display to find pencil/paper/kbd/whatever to do that.

Yes I know the user can move a scrollbar (if there is one) to those last seconds to see it again, or maybe a 'rewind' button if the player has it, but not to denigrate the average user (too much) we must realise that the average user's microwave probably still displays a blinking 12:00 and they suffer enough agita finding the play and stop buttons never mind scrolling or rewinding. LOL!

I see plenty of posts describing how to create that last frame, which I'd already worked out, setting the time to display it and such and that all does work fine of course.

I'm half guessing that VS can't do this, or more accurately that it's a 'player' topic not a 'create' topic and that VS/DVD have no control over it.

Thanks much. Have a

day!

Jim
jb@jbarchuk.com

mitchell65 · Post by **mitchell65** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:03 pm

I think this is a player problem as when I play a video in VS then it stays on the last frame until I move the curser. When I play the same video in WinDVD 9 it goes back to the player emblem when it finishes as does my TV!

jbarchuk · Post by **jbarchuk** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:53 pm

Yep and with WMP for me right -now- it loops and replays because that's how it's set.

This is similar to the early HTML days when the DTP folks said (with EMphasis and ITALics) '*I* want it to display *THIS* way and *ONLY* this way and *NOTHING* else!' and all we could say was sorry, Dave, we can't do that for you

because web rendering is up to the web browser and they're all slightly to drastically different.

Not a tragedy though. At least in my case if the user has the DVD case they have all that info there too. I just want to get certain things in their face as early and often as possible.

I also wanted to get this specific thread in the archives to differentiate between the much more common 'how do I fade the last frame to black' threads.

Have a

day!

Jim
jb@jbarchuk.com

mitchell65 · Post by **mitchell65** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:41 pm

Had another thought Jim. Don't know who your intended audience is but you could always save the last frame as an image complete with text and add a note like "This video will close in 30 seconds." Edit the 30 to suit the amount of info on the frame. If it is really important you could put "Copy down this information, failure to do so could seriously damage your health"

A friend of mine has a notice outside his front gate which reads:
"NO PARKING IN FRONT OF THESE GATES
OFFENDERS WILL BE SHOT. SURVIVORS WILL BE SHOT AGAIN"
Nobody seems to park there!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:17 pm

Or place the following text "Press the pause key on your remote control!"