My menus are going wrong when I burn to DVD

Little Red Light · Post by **Little Red Light** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:20 pm

Hi
I'm making a fairly complex educational DVD with about 20 video clips
and 25 menus.
It all worked very well in the first draft including the burned discs.
The client then made some amends, I re-streamed most of the video
clips, re jigged some menus and it all worked fine in the "Finish" stage.
But when I burn to disc I get bad links on the menus and play lists.

Menus are text only over Jpegs created in Photoshop, & my patches on
DVD Workshop 2 are up to date.

Can you help?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:45 pm

how many total buttons are on the bad menus (including Home/Next, etc...)?

Were the menus setup using the Menu Wizard, or did you create them from scratch?

Little Red Light · Post by **Little Red Light** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:57 pm

Menus are made from scratch, Backgrounds in Photoshop and all text with
DWS2. Typically there are three text items with links, but there is quite a
lot of text with no links.

If I reorder the menus in DWS2 then different menus have bad links, bad
menus to the back of the queue...weird.

pauley · Post by **pauley** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:54 am

When you say:

I re-streamed most of the video clips

What did you do?

I encountered problems when I modified a video and kept the same filename. Thinking DVDWS would just get the new video, and remember all of my menu links and chapter points. This does not work. By the time I had tried to pull in the mpeg as its own file, the DVDWS file was so messed up, I just had to start over.

Pauley

Little Red Light · Post by **Little Red Light** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:19 am

To prevent my own confusion as to what I had amended and what I hadn't
I did rename all the MP2 files. I also posted this problem on creative
cow and someone seems to think there is a problem in DWS2 with text
menus, but pictures work fine....anybody?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:25 pm

I've created dvd's with just text buttons, and they have always worked ok. But I never had to go in and change things around (like I think you did). If they worked before you modified the dvd, then perhaps it's getting confused with the modifications you ar emaking...

Try clearing out the DWS_TS Folder for your project (so it won't be able to re-use anything from prior builds).

If that doesn't work, you might have to start from scratch...

Little Red Light · Post by **Little Red Light** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:14 am

I'm trying it now, if I do have to start again I just hope I don't get the same problem. This has shaken my faith in DWS2 a bit, am I unlucky or is the programme a bit unstable?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:12 pm

clearing out the DWS_TS folder didn't help?

The program worked initially -- it seems that depending on the type of changes you try to apply after the fact might introduce some navigation problems (as you are seeing).

I'm not sure why, but I remember for one user clearing out the temp files helped her situation...

Little Red Light · Post by **Little Red Light** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:48 pm

Actually.........YES IT WORKED. I also dumped all playlists and relinked them, then I had to check it and burn a new DVD, then I had to check the disc, so it all took a while but YES IT WORKED.

THANK YOU