All thumbnail selections work - except one!

[Dillon]

First off, I want to commend you gurus for your in-depth knowledge and thank you, especially ggrussell, for assisting me with your answers to others. I usually learn that way or by trial and error, but this one has me stumped!

 

In MyDVD, I named my main menu movie link "title selection" (text only) and linked it to several thumbnails. I right-clicked, selected desired scene, applied motion and everything looks great. All but the very first one. The only thing different from this and the others that I can tell is that it has the lock on the "chapter edit" thumbnail so it is, effectively, the "play all" thumbnail.

 

Is this set so that this particular thumbnail cannot be changed? If so, why does it allow me to select a scene? As it stands now, only the intial frame appears as a thumbnail image and the motion menu does work on it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

(Please excuse the duplicate posts, everytime I hit submit, the "this page is not available" page showed up)

[MichaelN]

I have the same problem. I can not change the thumbnail for the first chapter regardless of what I try. I got around it by using VLC (a media player) to take a snapshot of the frame I wanted, and then used that for the button. It doesn't fix the problem, but at least you won't have a black box for a button.

[Dillon]

First we need some definitions as used BY THE PROGRAM.

 

ANY video that is added to the MAIN MENU (first menu) is called a 'title'. These are treated as individual movies. As DEFAULT after playing from that button, the viewer will be taken back to the MAIN MENU.

 

BY DEFINITION, any button on the main menu is NOT A CHAPTER button even if you decided to treat it as one. EMC uses the same definitions as used by commercial DVDs. CHAPTER buttons are ALWAYS on a submenu on commercial DVDs which usually only has ONE movie. Chapters and commentaries are always on submenus.

 

As for the button image problem, I can't reproduce it. Which DVD style are you using and which BUTTON style are you using? I can change the image for ANY button style that has a thumbnail.

 

This occurs on both EMC 9 and 10. Basically I strung about 20 cartoons together so the other 19 are anchored to the first. Then in 'edit chapter' I used the 'update 'chapter menu(s)' option so each cartoon can be accessed directly from the menu. Yes, they are treated as chapters but are actually they're own individual titles but the fact remains that the FIRST one has a thunbnail that can note be edited and all others can!

[ggrussell]

First we need some definitions as used BY THE PROGRAM.

 

ANY video that is added to the MAIN MENU (first menu) is called a 'title'. These are treated as individual movies. As DEFAULT after playing from that button, the viewer will be taken back to the MAIN MENU.

 

BY DEFINITION, any button on the main menu is NOT A CHAPTER button even if you decided to treat it as one. EMC uses the same definitions as used by commercial DVDs. CHAPTER buttons are ALWAYS on a submenu on commercial DVDs which usually only has ONE movie. Chapters and commentaries are always on submenus.

 

As for the button image problem, I can't reproduce it. Which DVD style are you using and which BUTTON style are you using? I can change the image for ANY button style that has a thumbnail.

[grandpabruce]

This occurs on both EMC 9 and 10. Basically I strung about 20 cartoons together so the other 19 are anchored to the first. Then in 'edit chapter' I used the 'update 'chapter menu(s)' option so each cartoon can be accessed directly from the menu. Yes, they are treated as chapters but are actually they're own individual titles but the fact remains that the FIRST one has a thunbnail that can note be edited and all others can!

 

That's the way the software works.