I've been poking around the HELP files, doing a lot of experimentation (without much success), and browsing the forum but I'm still having problems. The most useful post I've found is:
- Have an Intro video that plays start to end, then repeats, either in a window or full frame (at this point I don't care)
- Has a Play button that starts playing the single movie
- Has a Chapters button that takes user to a screen with buttons for the 9 sections of the movie
- Each Section menu has from 3 to 11 Chapters
Both the Intro video and the main video (the movie, for lack of a better term) are VideoWave 9 (VW9) projects.
The main video (movie) has the "chapter" points defined (clicking on Edit Chapters shows all 96 chapters).
In the Project View, Movies tab, I see a film clip icon with a "1" inside it and to its right the name of the intro VW9 project. On the line below I see a film clip icon with a dark center to its right the name of the main movie VW9 project.
In the Project View, Menus tab, I see an icon that looks like a target (or female coaxial connector) with the name of the project to its right.
Below it as an indented sub-item is a film clip icon with a "1" inside it and to its right "Intro Movie:" followed by the name of the intro VW9 project.
Below that is (unindented) what appears to be a menu icon with the word "Play" to its right.
Below that and indented is an icon with a dark gray square in a white square with the name of the main movie VW9 project.
MY QUESTIONS:
1) I set an "Intro Movie", using the Intro VW9 project I'd created. I can't figure out how to get it to show in the little video window on the main menu or full screen. Yes, there is a little video window in the current menu style. Instead I see the first frame of the Main movie. I haven't figured out how to change this.
2) I tried creating 9 separate submenus from the main menu. That didn't work. The template has room for 6 and apparently my attempts at adding three additional buttons were not what MyDVD9 expected as very strange things happened and then it locked up. My thought was to create 9 submenus (one for each major section of the "movie") and then under each of those I'd create submenus for the various chapters. That didn't work, and among other things, I couldn't figure out how to assign a specific chapter to a specific submenu button.
Obviously, I'm going about this the wrong way, and to quote one of my artistic friends "your problem is that you are approaching it like a programmer or engineer", but then they can't figure out what to do either.
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johnkorb
I've been poking around the HELP files, doing a lot of experimentation (without much success), and browsing the forum but I'm still having problems. The most useful post I've found is:
http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...amp;#entry22469
If there are better ones, please let me know.
WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO:
In MyDVD 9, accomplish the following:
- Have an Intro video that plays start to end, then repeats, either in a window or full frame (at this point I don't care)
- Has a Play button that starts playing the single movie
- Has a Chapters button that takes user to a screen with buttons for the 9 sections of the movie
- Each Section menu has from 3 to 11 Chapters
Both the Intro video and the main video (the movie, for lack of a better term) are VideoWave 9 (VW9) projects.
The main video (movie) has the "chapter" points defined (clicking on Edit Chapters shows all 96 chapters).
In the Project View, Movies tab, I see a film clip icon with a "1" inside it and to its right the name of the intro VW9 project. On the line below I see a film clip icon with a dark center to its right the name of the main movie VW9 project.
In the Project View, Menus tab, I see an icon that looks like a target (or female coaxial connector) with the name of the project to its right.
Below it as an indented sub-item is a film clip icon with a "1" inside it and to its right "Intro Movie:" followed by the name of the intro VW9 project.
Below that is (unindented) what appears to be a menu icon with the word "Play" to its right.
Below that and indented is an icon with a dark gray square in a white square with the name of the main movie VW9 project.
MY QUESTIONS:
1) I set an "Intro Movie", using the Intro VW9 project I'd created. I can't figure out how to get it to show in the little video window on the main menu or full screen. Yes, there is a little video window in the current menu style. Instead I see the first frame of the Main movie. I haven't figured out how to change this.
2) I tried creating 9 separate submenus from the main menu. That didn't work. The template has room for 6 and apparently my attempts at adding three additional buttons were not what MyDVD9 expected as very strange things happened and then it locked up. My thought was to create 9 submenus (one for each major section of the "movie") and then under each of those I'd create submenus for the various chapters. That didn't work, and among other things, I couldn't figure out how to assign a specific chapter to a specific submenu button.
Obviously, I'm going about this the wrong way, and to quote one of my artistic friends "your problem is that you are approaching it like a programmer or engineer", but then they can't figure out what to do either.
Thanks in advance for your help!
John
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