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[kcwillie]

I'm brand new to this DVD stuff so I bought the full version 8.  Everything loaded fine.  Now I'm trying to make a movie of about 100 pictures from a recent trip.  I got them all into one movie and that worked OK.  Next I wanted to create chapter for each loaction.  I can create the chapters OK but now the movie only plays in chapters.  I can't play the whole thing at once.  

What have I done wrong.  The docuemntation talks about linked buttons and setting buttons to do certain things.  What I think I need is  a "Play all" button.  I can't get any of the buttons to allow me to see the settings.

Any ideas on what I did wrong.  Maybe I can't break a whole movie into chapters to play just certain sections at a time.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate any help I can get.

[ggrussell]

Doesn't sound like you did anything wrong. Just need to back up a step.

When you 'Add Video' to MyDVD, it automatically creates a button that plays that movie or slideshow.  IF you right click and 'edit chapers', there is check mark at the bottom to create a submenu with the thumbnails. When you UNCHECK that, teh chapter marks are still there, you just won't have the submenu.

That is one option.

The second choice is the same, but this time BEFORE marking chapters, copy the first button to the clipboard.  Move the button temporarily.  Then paste the button back. Rename one of the buttons 'Play All'. Rename the second button "Select Scenes" (or whatever).  THEN right mouse click on the scenes button and 'edit chapters'.

This way you end up with two buttons that point to the same video. One plays the entire thing. The second will take you to the submenu wit thumbnails.

[mondschain]

hi I just read this and keep trying to get it the second way you described it so that I would have two buttons.... I am doing something wrong as attached in the pic cant get the second button back .... I copied the first button then deleted it ( I dont know what the clipboard is and how to paste it there) after pasting it back I cant get a second button.

I tried to paste a pic of my problem in here but dont know how to

thank you for any help

[ggrussell]

mondschain, on Jul 21 2006, 10:32 AM, said:

I copied the first button then deleted it

Why did you delete it?  What you want to do is make a 'copy' of the first button.

Click once on the button you created when you added a video.
Hold the Control key and hit "C". That copies it to the clipboard.
Move the button slightly cause the paste will be in the exact some position
Hold Control and hit "V".  This pastes the button back.

You  should now have two buttons that point to the same video. Rename one 'Play Video' ( or whatever you like).  Rename the second one 'Select Scenes'.  Right click on this button and EDIT CHAPTERS.

[starrigger]

Thank you for those instructions, which helped me figure out the same question.  But one thing that I'm left having trouble with is thumbnails for the buttons.  There are two parts to this problem:

1) The option to change thumbnail is greyed out for the "copy" of the button labeled "scenes."  It seems permanently the same as the "play all" button.

2) On the chapter submenu, I get the option for changing thumbnails, and it lets me go through the whole process of selecting the thumbnails, but in the end I'm still left with the "no image" crosshatching in my buttons.  

Any idea what could be causing that?  

Jeff

Edited by starrigger, 24 July 2006 - 02:10 PM.

[ggrussell]

What video card do you have?  Make sure you have updated your video card drivers and DirectX.  I know this sounds like a generic answer, but Videowave and MyDVD depend heavily on DirectX and good video drivers.

[starrigger]

ggrussell, on Jul 24 2006, 04:17 PM, said:

What video card do you have?  Make sure you have updated your video card drivers and DirectX.  I know this sounds like a generic answer, but Videowave and MyDVD depend heavily on DirectX and good video drivers.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ver. 6.14

Yes, I've updated my drivers and DirectX.

The DVD build failed.  No error msgs, but when I tried to play the "burned" files from the DVD folder in PowerDVD, there were no menues, and my chapter points were gone altogether.

[ggrussell]

Hmmm....  My last computer had the FX5200 and i didn't have any problems.  Have you downloaded the latest drivers?  91.31 (jun 23)?  Also the lastest DirectX (jun 2006)?

[starrigger]

ggrussell, on Jul 24 2006, 08:48 PM, said:

Hmmm....  My last computer had the FX5200 and i didn't have any problems.  Have you downloaded the latest drivers?  91.31 (jun 23)?  Also the lastest DirectX (jun 2006)?

Yah.  I also discovered, on closer examination, that the second build attempt only caught the first 20 minutes of a 1:20 video.  

I now have VW grinding away (I'm not on that computer now), outputting my finished video as a DV AVI file.  I'm going to try importing that into Sonic MyDVD 6, and see if I can get it to work that way.  I don't want to spend the rest of my life finishing this DVD!

[starrigger]

starrigger, on Jul 24 2006, 10:09 PM, said:

...outputting my finished video as a DV AVI file.  I'm going to try importing that into Sonic MyDVD 6, and see if I can get it to work that way.

That worked beautifully.  I don't know what the problem is with Roxio's MyDVD, but when I imported the same video into Sonic MyDVD 6, I had no trouble at all.  Clean build and clean burn.  

I suppose it would be interesting to see what would happen if I imported that finished DV AVI file into Roxio (rather than "sending" it from Videowave as an edited project, as opposed to an intact movie file).  But right now, I don't think I want to spend the time.  

Truth is, although it has fewer bells and whistles, I think the Sonic MyDVD is a stabler and more reliable program than the "upgrade."