event driven video clips on VTS

[samifox]

Hi

Im using DVD-Lab pro.

I like to setup my VTS flow like the shrek 2 VTS setup….meaning I want to open the DVD with one video clip and when the user trigger a link I want to play another video clip while the music is being seamless although the clips.

How can I achieve this?


THanks
S

[GeorgeW]

Can you point me to the section of the DVD that does this? If I go to the "Scene Selection" menu, everytime I hit the next group of scenes, the music changes.

[samifox]

when i gave the shrek 2 example i meant only to the event driven clips desire....about the music ...is my own one.

[samifox]

hi

can i? or cant i have specific video responde to a user choice?

can i? or cant i have seamless audio track among all the menues?

thanks
S

[reboot]

You need to split audio into cells. Each cell plays in order, based on the menu chosen. It must be linear, or the audio doesn't appear seamless, and is done with switched menus.
You can have any video/movie play based on user input. It's all in the way you design the menus.

[GeorgeW]

I think samifox is trying for this:

One audio track playing in the background while switching menus (but the audio track continues to play without interruption)? For instance, say there is one song for all menus -- when switching between menus, the song should play continuously without pausing or starting over...

[samifox]

GeorgeW is rght...and yuo also rebbot.

have you writen any guides about this?

[guns1inger]

You cant do it in any authoring program. Seemless audio is not possible because jumping assets or cells jumps video and audio. The best you can hope for is to try to hide the transitions in fades etc. Switched menus are simply different menus linked to gether and designed in such a way as to appear to be one menu. Again, changing menus will cause a change in the audio. If you put the same song on all menus, switching menus wont keep the music going, but simply restart it at the beginning.

[reboot]

There's one way you can attempt to get it done.
Take your audio track, break it up into chunks, the exact same length as your motion menu. Make each menu with successive chunks of audio.
On some players, it will still "burp" between switches, and some will play more smoothly than others.
As I said above, this works for a linear menu sequence, but if the user pushes the back button, it's gonna play the audio associated, and not be seamless.

[GeorgeW]

There's one way you can attempt to get it done.
Take your audio track, break it up into chunks, the exact same length as your motion menu. Make each menu with successive chunks of audio.
On some players, it will still "burp" between switches, and some will play more smoothly than others.
As I said above, this works for a linear menu sequence, but if the user pushes the back button, it's gonna play the audio associated, and not be seamless.

I don't think that will work, because you don't know when the viewer is going to hit a button during the current menu. It could be in the middle of a "chunk" of music...

[garrisonkw]

Is it possible to change the end action of a menu without actually going to another menu/video clip? If so, you could just set the end action to be a different menu and edit the music such that the ending of menu 1 matches up to the beginning of memu 2. Is this doable? From a DVD programming standpoint it seems like it SHOULD be doable, but I don't know if any authoring programs support it.

Just my 2 cents.

[canadateck]

I dont think this can be done Like GeorgeW said you dont know when the user will Click to go to the next menu.
The only way I see that you can even get close to this,would be to set the End Action of each menu to change the Linking structure every 1 or 2 seconds to match the next menu,This would take hours of work and tons of menus,And on most players the transition to another menu is not seamless there is a pause from one to the other.

[reboot]

garrisonkw, that's the general idea. It's not seamless though, and the work involved isn't worth the hassle.
If you want seamless audio, you need to have the menus switch with no user intervention, disable all fwd and rew buttons etc. Force them to watch/listen to the sequence you want. Very frustrating if it's a long intro that nobody want's to see anyhow.

[garrisonkw]

I think you may have missed my point. I haven't gotten to deep into DVD programming - the sort of stuff you have to know ifoedit pretty well to do. I know a button can change the audio track or subtitle track or can point to a menu or video clip. Can a button also be set to change the end action of a current menu? If so, click the button, the end action changes and when the menu has played itself out, the chosen menu or video starts.

When the user clicks wouldn't figure into things.

[reboot]

Sure. Two links on the menu. 1 is default action, which activates after a specified time. The button is an alternate action, with a delay.
WHEN the user clicks wouldn't matter, but WHAT he clicks may screw things up, unless you disable some of the options.