My Dvd Defeats Me With Menu Order! :-)

[AAKAlan]

I have just authored a project with nine short movies.

 

The style I'm using has those animated thumbnails.

Fine so far.

 

However, I can't figure out how to get them to play in the right order.

Let me explain - When the finished movie loads, the third button is highlighted not the first!

 

Using the "Movies" tab of the Project view, I can re-order my clips using the "move up" and "move down" buttons. All clips are in the right order.

 

But the button order on the "Menus" tab of the Project View doesn't change, and I cannot find any way of changing the order (like a z-order or tabbing order) of the buttons! My first button is the first movie on the "Movie" list. But it's the 3rd button on the "Menu" treeview. How do I get it to be the first in both lists?

 

Do I have to add movies to the project in the order I want them to run? And I can't change them after I've done that?

 

Any help greatly appreciated. I've authored a bunch of DVDs with MyDVD and Pinnacle 9, so I'm not really new to this stuff.... just baffled by the user-interface.

 

Thank you!

[Jim_Hardin]

Unless someone knows a good trick – the order that you add the clips controls the button order and it cannot be changed???

 

[AAKAlan]

Unless someone knows a good trick – the order that you add the clips controls the button order and it cannot be changed???

 

Thanks for the comments, Jim.

 

Good news. I found a solution, though it is bizarre. No one ever accused Roxio of developing high-usability interfaces!

 

You can drag buttons in the "Menu" tab of the Project View window, and drop them on the parent menu.

The effect is quite unexpected: whatever you drop there goes to the bottom of the list! (Not the top - go figure). However, in my case, I could just drag-and-drop buttons 1 and 2 and the -real- #1 (the first movie clip), simply floats to the top.

 

So, it's sort of a reverse queue. You can control the order by dropping buttons to the bottom of the list.

 

Not very intuitive, but it certainly solved my problems last nigh.

 

Thanks for taking the time.

[Jim_Hardin]

Thanks for the comments, Jim.

 

Good news. I found a solution, though it is bizarre. No one ever accused Roxio of developing high-usability interfaces!

 

You can drag buttons in the "Menu" tab of the Project View window, and drop them on the parent menu.

The effect is quite unexpected: whatever you drop there goes to the bottom of the list! (Not the top - go figure). However, in my case, I could just drag-and-drop buttons 1 and 2 and the -real- #1 (the first movie clip), simply floats to the top.

 

So, it's sort of a reverse queue. You can control the order by dropping buttons to the bottom of the list.

 

Not very intuitive, but it certainly solved my problems last nigh.

 

Thanks for taking the time.

Good One!!!

 

I tried it and it does work. Can’t recall but there was another software package I used that worked that way. When you have 10 or 12 items to reorder it took some thinking

 

[ggrussell]

However, in my case, I could just drag-and-drop buttons 1 and 2 and the -real- #1 (the first movie clip), simply floats to the top.

Idon't think what you are doing is 'by design'. I would say most likely the button defined as teh 'default' play button is what floats to the top. To change the default play button, do not select anything on the menu and View/Settings. First item at the top of that dialog box is a drop down list. This defaults to the first video added.

[Jim_Hardin]

Idon't think what you are doing is 'by design'. I would say most likely the button defined as teh 'default' play button is what floats to the top. To change the default play button, do not select anything on the menu and View/Settings. First item at the top of that dialog box is a drop down list. This defaults to the first video added.

I am a little slow today Gary – got picture?

 

What he describes does work although I agree it was probably not intended to Keep in mind the goal here is to Change the Order of the buttons.

 

[ggrussell]

I didn't try it. Just guessing. I always plan ahead and add the videos in the order I want them. I think the most I've ever put on one disc was 4 or 5 videos.

 

I can't figure out what he was doing although I have accidentally reordered buttons before by dragging them around in the menu tab., but that isn't consistent or repeatable for me. Reordering the video in the movie tab doesn't affect button order for me.

 

In this example, I re-ordered to movie1,2,4,3 in the menu tab, but when I click Preview and use the remote control, the button selection order is still 1,2,3,4. So it would appear the order in the menu tab has no bearing on the actual button selection.

 

Reordering the button vertically 4, 1, 2, 3 , changed default button to 4. Remote up/down still goes through the buttons as expected. Remote left button works as expected, but the remote Right button is messed up.

[AAKAlan]

Gary,

 

My experience is a bit different <sigh>.

Which just goes to show that 1) none of us really know how the clips get ordered and 2) the onlilne help sucks!

 

In your second illustration, you said that the position in the "Menus" tab doesn't effect the tabbing order. But I have found that it does.

 

The way I changed the order there was to drag a button from the list and drop it on the menu that contains it. Everything goes still for about 15 seconds, then the one you dropped goes to the bottom of the list. And it does indeed change the remote's tabbing order. Not to mention that the first one at the top of the treeview (just below the menu entry) becomes the new default button.

 

It's also odd that changing the buttons' -display- position vertically changes the order. Too bizarre!

 

That wouldn't have worked for me at all, as I needed three rows of three buttons each (the buttons were animated thumbnails). Both the wrong default button and the right default button were in the same row - the first.

 

I have one last question for you.

 

In your first image, you showed a dialog to the right of the screen. How did you open it? I can't even find that anywhere. Menu option? Icon? Button? That's the dialog I was looking for.

 

Thanks for taking the time!

 

Alan