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Play a chapter and return to the dvd menu
ClancM
Senior Member Location: New York Joined: May 26, 2011 22:19 Messages: 175 Offline
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I'm making a DVD of a school performance that has multiple acts, i put a new chapter at the begining of each mini performance and want to make a dvd menu where you click scenes then select a chapter, it plays then it goes back to the dvd menu. Is their a way to accomplish this in PD9?
JL_JL [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline
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Yes, instead of chapters each "act" needs to be its own pds project which will be a "title" in pds menu terms. The menu option setting controls what happens after a "Title" is played, not a chapter. Chapters are always played consecutively. "Titles" are created by importing more than 1 pds project into the "Create Disc" module.

You can do what you want, play a selected scene and return to the main menu by having each act a seperate pds project, not simply chapters in a one project.

These posts and referenced content within give you some details
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/13628.page#64241
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7497.page#30399

Jeff
ClancM
Senior Member Location: New York Joined: May 26, 2011 22:19 Messages: 175 Offline
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Darn, i was afraid that was the only option.
Thank you for the reply.
Unfotunitly becuase each one is part of this one project (and there are many) i think it will best not to do it this time.
JL_JL [Avatar]
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Quote: Unfotunitly becuase each one is part of this one project (and there are many) i think it will best not to do it this time.

Sometimes not too bad, if you had 15 acts copy your intital pds file 15 times and name them act1, act2, act3.... Then edit each one and delete all except for the one act you are trying to keep for each pds file. You really don't have to do any more editing and all the edits you did can be maintained.

Jeff
ClancM
Senior Member Location: New York Joined: May 26, 2011 22:19 Messages: 175 Offline
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Hmmm, i never thought to copy the project first. Thanks, i'll try that!
bonagege [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Italia, Lombardia GMT + 1 Joined: Jun 25, 2011 16:32 Messages: 187 Offline
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Hi
I use the custom menu with several chapters or title on the same page.
The unresolved issues are:
1) does not automatically return to the home page after reading a chapter or title, but continues the vision of the entire movie. 2) This thumbnail image of the chapter is always a video of commencement of the chapter and not a still image.

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