Disk Menu Navigation Button Problem

jbanderson

Newbie Joined: Jul 05, 2013 19:23 Messages: 15 Offline

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Jul 07, 2013 11:10

Hi, I'm new to PwerDirector and still trying to learn.

I'm doing a fairly large project producing a DVD of a choral performance. I want to have the 17 or so songs be chapters, so users of the DVD can choose to jump to a particular song. I've learned how to insert chapters and how to make a menu in the "Create Disk" section. What I have at the moment is a menu with 4 chapters per page in the scene selection pages. Everything looks and works fine in preview.

However, when I burn it to DVD, my stand-alone DVD player's remote control doesn't work right with the navigation buttons. My chapter buttons work fine. I'm talking about the "Home, up, forward, back" buttons that are used to go between pages. They don't highlight when selected, so it looks like the arrow keys on the remote aren't working. However, I found by experimentation that it is stepping through the buttons and I can blind select them, but I can't see any indication of what is selected. I can run the disk on my PC and the highlights work. It's only on my DVD player I have a problem. It's an older Samsung Blue-Ray player (1st gen) but has always worked fine with commercial DVDs.

I've looked for information about how to control the behavior of these buttons, beyond the button style, but it looks like there is only the default and they can't be altered. Is that right? Am I missing something?

Is anyone else have this problem? Is it something in PowerDirector or could it just be my DVD player? This disk will eventually distributed to many people, so it will be run in lots of different machines. I'd like to know it's going to work right in all of them.

Sorry this is long-winded. I'd appreciate any advice.

jbanderson

Newbie Joined: Jul 05, 2013 19:23 Messages: 15 Offline

Jul 09, 2013 21:09

Just bumping this back up.

Is it possible to modify the disk menu navigation buttons beyond choosing a one of the built-in styles?

ShadowsOfKnight

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2013 18:29 Messages: 23 Offline

Jul 10, 2013 02:21

I take it you are using one of the template menus that comes with PD. If so, may I ask which one you are using? I can give it a try and see if I get the same problem.

You have the ability to import your own button icons, as well as the associated highlight, when you go into Modify on a template. That's what I was hoping to take a look at if you tell me which template.

I too have had some strange menu button behavior. I created scene selection pages with 3 selections per screen going down the screen (not across). I indented the one in the middle, so I could squeeze them together vertically. When it got to the disc, from choice 1, you could only move with right arrow to get to choice 2. Once you got to choice 2, there was no way to get to choice 3, which was below and to the left. Neither down or right arrow did anything. You had to go from 2, back up to 1, and then you could go down arrow to 3. Typically, right arrow will continue to go left to right, down the screen through every choice. Not very good default behavior.

jbanderson

Newbie Joined: Jul 05, 2013 19:23 Messages: 15 Offline

Jul 10, 2013 16:41

Hi ShadowsOfKnight,

I've managed to get control of most of the "modify menu" functions and have tired this with both the standard templates and ones I've made myself. My chapter buttons work fine.

The thing I was asking about originally was the "Home, up, forward, back" buttons that are used to go between pages. There just doesn't seem to be any control over those. You pick a style and that's all you can do.

BTW, I tried my DVD on a portable DVD Player (Sony) and it worked perfectly, so the problem was with my old BlueRay player. I can live with that, even though it makes me a little uneasy about people playing it on various machines.

I haven't played with importing highlights. What format should those be? Can I make images (gif or jpg)? How do you control color and so forth?

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Jul 10, 2013 17:01

Hi,
High lights are PNG file I just create a "chapter button" and the mask, then use the actual highligh Button (you have to play with the transparency < > to get the effect, then pick a color for the high light.
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