Scenarist navigation help please

[moggie]

Does anyone know how to set up a branching menu in Scenarist to do the following:

I have 12 video clips totalling about 1.5 hours. I would like to have a main menu that allows the user to select any of the 12 clips, OR play them all, one after another.

I have no problems creating a scenario to provide the branching, but am finding it impossible to do the chain ("play all") playback WITHOUT bringing in all 12 clips AGAIN as new PGCs and linking them in series, which doubles the amount of space required on the disc, which in my case, exceeds the single layer limit.

A program as complex as Scenarist MUST be able to do this simple task!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Moggie

[petar]

I don't own Scenarist (can't afford the damn thing but I'm saving) though I've played with it so I'll try to explain you from memory.

In the main menu for each button that plays each clip set one GPRM to, say, 0. For the "play all" button, set the same register to, say, 1. Then at the end of each clip (in the post command section) compare that GPRM. If it's 0 call the menu, if it's 1 link to the next clip.

Buttons can have only one command so you have two choices. (1) Set GPRM and link to the post command section of the PGC and do all the branching from there or (2) Create a new PGC for each button and link to it and then put the commands there.

However, the way you are thinking of doing it is also valid and shouldn't take double the space. Have you tried authoring it? When you create two titles and use the same clips in both, Scenarist should "re-use" the cells.

[adam]

This is an extremely simple process and the manual explains it pretty clearly.

Simply put, once a track has been created you can re-use it as many times as you want and it still is only stored once on the DVD. So you would create 13 titles on the scenario tab (one for each item and then one for the play all option). Obviously each item goes where it goes (clip 1 goes to title 1, clip 2 goes to title 2 etc...) for the final title, the play all one, just drag and drop each item one after the other, in the order you want them to play. That final title takes up no space on the disk, because it is simply re-using other items.

Then just set all your menu commands accordingly.

[moggie]

Thanks for the help!!

I tried authoring the disc as Adam suggested and it worked great.

My appologies for being blind AND stupid.

Thanks again guys!

Moggie