Motion Menus

[Down1oader]

Hi im currently putting some home movies on dvd i have them on svcd what i have done is copy the mpgs off the svcd and created a dvd with dvd lab my problem is the motion menus in dvd lab how do i create a menu that would have one movie playing at the top and one movie playing at the bottom of the screen having each movie only play whilst it is highlighted by the user, ive seen this done on commercial dvds i was wondering how to do it, thanks. oh one other thing if anyone knows a fix for stopping the dvd from playing mid movie it should go to the menu but it doesnt it skips it one way of fixing this was to turn autoresume off on windvd is there a proper fix?

[guns1inger]

There is a tutorial on the DVD Labs site http://dvdlab.net/dvdlab/tutorial/switchmenu.html
which does pretty much what you are after. It uses a still background, but you should be able to drop a clip in in it's place and go from there.

[Down1oader]

did the tutorial its not what im after, fixed the motion background comile bug error just went back to ver 1.3

[guns1inger]

What you really want is two very large motion buttons (half a screen each) which stop and start based on having and losing focus. I'm not sure if the standard version of DVD Lab can do this, however the scripting in the pro version might give you more control. Maybe download the beta version and have a play.

[andkiich]

I would say investigate the "switched menu" tutorial. Menu 1 would have the motion menu at the top, and the stil at the bottom, while the second menu would have the motion at the bottom and the still at the top.

Then you could create a frame or group hot spot around the top and bottom respectively, then have DVD-Lab "switch" to the other menu when you press up or down.

The easiest explanation would be to combine the motion menu tutorial with the switched menu tutorial.

[guns1inger]

I had the same thoughts when I was writing my previous reply. The issue I could see with this approach would be that the still would not match the point where the motion was meant to stop, so the image would not pause and resume, but jump back to the beginning, which wouldn't look so smooth.

Having said that, I can't think of another way to do it easily.

[adam]

Down1oader

What commercial DVD did you see this feature on? I didn't think this was possible in the DVD standard (except with DVD Extra which is just html). It sound like a really cool idea.

[freestyler]

It's all done using auto-actions on 2 diff menus. It's done best when the menus have no audio though.

[adam]

That still doesn't explain anything. When you switch to the other video part how is the first one going to freeze on the correct frame? The only way to do that (that I can think of) is to have many many of these video menu's and use gprms on each one to jump to the correct one according to how much time has passed on each one. I doubt it would be very seamless either.

I just can't wrap my head around how this could be possible, so I'd like to get my hands on one of these commercial DVDs to play with it.

[freestyler]

I'd bet money that these "commercial" dvds all restart. Stopping the menu on the frame doesnt sound possible. The audio won't resume either.

[petar]

Never seen one. Since I started making DVDs myself I pay special attention to the menus of the commercial DVDs (to get creative ideas) and they all restart. And I've seen every DVD in my store.

Some are carefully done and it's not very noticable (the scenes don't contain great deal of changes and the brightness/darkness of the whole clip doesn't change much, plus the windows are not very big).

[adam]

If you don't mind the restart (which I think is unavoidable) then you can easily have the audio play seamlessly throughout. Instead of switching between two menu's just have it switch between 2 angles in the same track.

[freestyler]

DVD Lab doesn't do multi-angles.