More dvd lab questions

[sterankin]

I have been trying for days now to get my menus sorted for my wedding dvd and keep hitting brick walls. What I want to do sounds pretty simple on paper so hopefully some kind soul can explain exactly how to do the following.

I will have 2 menus - firstly should these be VGM or not (VTS?) or does it matter.

I have rendered 2 different mpeg2 files for each menu so they are motion menus with audio. NB there are no buttons in the videos as I was adding those separately. Maybe this was a mistake as the buttons and text I placed on the menu dont show up. I read you have to render the menu but that didnt work as it rendered cell 1 and put buttons on the render when there should be no buttons on the cell 1.
If Ineed to re-export the menu videos with buttons and text from my video editing program, how do they become clickable?? I mean, if they are part of the video is there a way to make that area of the video a button?


Menu cells:
I created 3 cells for my main menu. First cell is an intro that is played once only. Second cell is looped and has the active buttons as such. Third cell is only played when "Play All" is clicked - its like a fade out before the main movie starts. Do I need a case select so that the main movie is played after cell 3 has finished or is there another way to get main movie to play after cell 3?


On my second menu, how do I get the button to link to menu 1, but to cell 2 of menu 1. It plays cell 1 and I dont want it to do this. Is there some command for this?

Thanks for any help on this, its melting my head

[guns1inger]

Use a register to store a value. When a button is pressed, put a value in that register. After cell 3 plays, check the value, and select a title according to the value. This way you can have cell 3 play before any title selected.

Have a read of the Motion Menu Cells section of the DLP help file.

I also have a some handy links to some great cell based posts in the forums, but they appear to be down at the moment

[sterankin]

Thanks gunslinger.
I am able to get the cell 3 to play when the button is clicked - and after cell 3 is played I can get it to play the movie. So that part is sorted.

Still cannot get the following:
- On my second menu, how do I get the button to link to menu 1, but to cell 2 of menu 1. It plays cell 1 and I dont want it to do this. Is there some command for this?
- similarily, when the movie ends - how do I get it to go to cell 2 of menu 1 and not cell 1?

Hope you can help. As you are aware the mediachance forums are down

[Alex_ander]

- On my second menu, how do I get the button to link to menu 1, but to cell 2 of menu 1. It plays cell 1 and I dont want it to do this. Is there some command for this?
- similarily, when the movie ends - how do I get it to go to cell 2 of menu 1 and not cell 1?

In pre-commands of the first-play PGC write some non-zero value into a free GRPM. Check that value in main menu PGC pre-commands. If it is 0, link cell 2. In the second command line (will be executed instead of previous command if that value is not 0), (re)set that GRPM to 0. So all further main menu calls (from any place, incl. buttons in other menus) will start it from cell 2. Only first playback action will start the menu from cell 1.

[sterankin]

OK this makes sense so thanks very much, but how to actually link to cell 2 - as in whats the command?

[Alex_ander]

Something like this in main menu PGC pre-commands (replace # with your GRPM number):

1 if (GRPM#==0) LinkCN 2
2 GRPM# = 0

[sterankin]

Pre command of first play:
GPRM15 = 0

Pre command of Menu 1:

if (GPRM15 == 0) CallSS VTSM (menu ROOT, rsm_cell 2)
GPRM15 = 0

error on line 1: Line 1 :'' You can't compare with number for CALLSS

any ideas?

[sterankin]

lol I was typing mine as you posted! Will check it out and see!

[Alex_ander]

In first play you need to set smth. like 1 (not 0)

[sterankin]

right it still not working when I make the dvd and play in WMP

Here is hwat I have:

Looking at connection in DVDLP:
I right click on first play which is a green icon.
I click edit on PRE Commands sequence for box A on the left
on Line 1 I have: GPRM15 = 1

Next I right click on Menu 1 in connections and choose edit VM commands.
Again I choose custom pre commands, box A on the left to edit it.
Contents are:
if (GPRM15 == 0) LinkCN 2 (button 1)
GPRM15 = 0

On Menu 2 - The button to go back to menu 1 is just links to menu 1 and has no commands.

Any ideas?

[Alex_ander]

GRPMs 11-15 are already used by DLP internally and can't be used for custom programming (there's a warning in help file).
What do you see at playback?

[sterankin]

I noticed that too when I took the screenshot so I changed it to GRPM4 but its still not working.

The dvd plays as normal when it is first played, so it goes like
Menu 1 (cell 1)
Menu 1 (cell 2)

But when I go to menu 2, then click on the button linked back to Menu 1, it plays cell 1 for some reason.

Not sure what I am doing wrong..

[sterankin]

Ha - got it working now, I has missed one of the GPRM15's and should have changed it to a 4!
Thanks!