Scenarist glues cont.

[kurbads]

I started discussion about Scenarist making completely compliant and working but somehow strange looking layout DVDs. Since I run into breach of forum rules the post was blocked but I received confirmation to continue the discussion.
I am creating DVD with main menu of selecting tracks and submenu of selecting audio.
The main menu has to be in Title menu - to have access to all title sets, but audio menu has to be in root menu to of each individual title set. The audio submenu has another trick - it starts video when language is chosen.
Here is how it looks:
1) Main menu of video track selection pointing to sub(audio)menus in each track
2) Submenu pointing to video and main menu
3) Submenu command list starting the video when audio is selected
The Scenarist produces the following result:
The main menu is in VIDEO_TS.VOB file. The sub menus are in VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_2.VOB. They are squeezed there as a first frame. At the same time thy are present as separate files in mux directory. My questions is why these submenus are not in the VTS_01_0.VOB and VTS_02_0.VOB files, why these files are not present at all. Where do I have to put sub menus so they appear as a separate VTS_0X_0.VOB files?
Please read signature carefully before posting. Do not tempt me into trouble asking irrelevant questions.
The link to blocked post is https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=302282

[lordsmurf]

This is why, when you actually buy the software, it comes with a learning seminar and documentation.

[kurbads]

I have documentation PDF and tutorial PDF. I did go through it. It took me two weeks to author my first multi menu, multi language, multi subtitle DVD in Scenarist. They were realy interesting weeks of exploration. Now it takes 10 minutes without processing times. And now will anybody stick to the point? Do I have to read everything from start? Maybe someone has attended the seminar?

By the way in screenshot one can see that the first frame of video is menu. It is left from previous authoring. I had to demux authored dvd and get one title from original 2 disk set and reauthor from beginning because I somehow spoiled the disk while copying from disk to disk and giving away the master. Never copy from disk to disk and give away master, the disks can gather errors this way.

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[kurbads]

Thank you, I gave up smoking. I think professional sphere is too overcowded to enter, besides here is not too much work for authoring DVDs. We do not make much films here in Latvia. I do not intend to work with video professionlally, I just thought maybe someone knows the answer.

[videopoo]

Hi Kurbads

Were Back!

You put your menu in a title. It needs to be in the VTSM for VTS 1. Create a new language for VTS 1 which is really just creating a Menu PGC. Drag your menu asset into that PGC and link/jump your Button to the title.

This this the reason why your first frame is the menu

Menu are put into the VGM or the VTSM not in titles. Titles are for your video clips

[kurbads]

Easy, was it?
I made a layout and got nice clear result:
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_02_0.BUP
VTS_02_0.IFO
VTS_02_0.VOB
VTS_02_1.VOB
VTS_02_2.VOB
VTS_02_3.VOB
I usually forget to Autoroute buttons in Scenarist, that's why I need menus to be accessible in PGCEdit. Or sometimes I forget to set appropriate transparency to menu subpictures. Rebuilding whole project in Scenarist takes too much time even I am using 3 different hard drives for source, mux and target directories.
Here is how I built the layout:
1) Main menu from VideoManager points to audio menus in VTS 1 and VTS 2.
2) Set audio menu post command to Jump to Title
3) and 4) Set button commands to 5) and 6)
7) and 8) Set post commands of video to Jump to main menu

[crusty]

This is why, when you actually buy the software, it comes with a learning seminar and documentation

The Scenarist manual is the most unhelpful and poorly written piece of crap to ever see the light of day, as for the free seminars not everyone lives in the USA or Singapore.