Menu Highlight Trouble

John 1274

Member Joined: Nov 29, 2008 11:04 Messages: 84 Offline

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Mar 01, 2009 16:27

Hey everyone,

I've edited a video in PD7 with a "Main Menu" and "Chapters" pages. I used highlighted arrows to navigate and everything is working great on all pages, except for one problem I'm having on the "Chapters" pages. If I bring up the "Chapter" page and navigate thru the chapters but don't select an item for 15 seconds, the highlight arrow jumps back to the first chapter on the top left. If I navigate back down thru the chapters again and don't select something within 15 seconds, the highlight arrow goes back to the top left again and so on.

This is really irritating, because if the 15 second time limit happens right as I am pressing the button to play the chapter, it sometimes jumps back to the beginning and plays the wrong chapter.

The "Motion Menu Duration" is set at 15 seconds, which is what I think is causing the problem but the "Enable Video Thumbnail" box does not have a check in it and the "Auto Menu Time-out" is not checked. Also I am using 6 video thumbnails without any motion per page.

I have recently produced a few videos with the exact same settings but did not have video thumbnails. I just used highlighted text but the arrow did not jump back to the top after 15 seconds.

I think the problem is somewhere in the 15 second "Motion Menu Duration" but I can't figure out why the highlight arrow jumps back to the top every 15 seconds, when I have "Enable Video Thumbnail" turned off.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, John Windows 7 64-bit 8 GB RAM, x64
AMD Phenom, IIx4 925 Processor
2800 Mhz, 4 Core, 4 Logical Processors
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Phys. Memory 7.99 GB
Available Phys. Memory 5.70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.3 GB

Bif

Member Location: San Angelo TX Joined: Aug 14, 2008 01:48 Messages: 147 Offline

Mar 03, 2009 15:10

This is a guess...

The way motion menus work (from other NLE's I've used) is that after the "menu duration" they "reset" and start over, so both when it starts and starts over the arrow is at the first menu item.

Try setting the menu duration for 30 seconds and see if that allows 30 seconds before the arrow returns to the "start" position.

The menu timeout when checked simply autostarts the video itself after the menu duration time.

John 1274

Member Joined: Nov 29, 2008 11:04 Messages: 84 Offline

Mar 06, 2009 14:48

Thank you bif for the reply!

I tried setting the time limit to 30 seconds, 60 seconds and so on and it does wait to that amount of time, before it jumps back to the first chapter in the list. The problem is, that by setting the time limit higher makes my project use a lot more space. Such as.....I've set it at 99 seconds (which is as high as it can be set) and then tried setting it at 15 seconds. My video took more than 1GB more space, just to set the duration at 99 seconds. I can't understand that, because I have no motion with the thumbnails. How can no motion use more memory?

One other thing I've noticed is.....when I design a chapter page with highlighted text and without thumbnail pics, the highlighted text does not jump back to the first chapter after the 15 seconds.

I'll have to keep fooling with it to see what I can find!

Thanks again, John Windows 7 64-bit 8 GB RAM, x64
AMD Phenom, IIx4 925 Processor
2800 Mhz, 4 Core, 4 Logical Processors
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Phys. Memory 7.99 GB
Available Phys. Memory 5.70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.3 GB

Bif

Member Location: San Angelo TX Joined: Aug 14, 2008 01:48 Messages: 147 Offline

Mar 06, 2009 17:55

Disk menus in PD7 give me more "fits" than anything else about the way this package works. But someone, I think it was RoberJOz wrote a bunch of tips or an article on menu creation that did more to help me get through creating a menu or two.

Try doing a search for "menus" or "disk menus" ("disc menus") and see what you can find. I know that helped me a lot.

John 1274

Member Joined: Nov 29, 2008 11:04 Messages: 84 Offline

Mar 06, 2009 23:00

Thanks Bif so much for your information. I really appreciate your help. I’ll give it a search and see what I can find.

Later, and have a great day! John Windows 7 64-bit 8 GB RAM, x64
AMD Phenom, IIx4 925 Processor
2800 Mhz, 4 Core, 4 Logical Processors
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Phys. Memory 7.99 GB
Available Phys. Memory 5.70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.3 GB

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 07, 2009 13:14

Try:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3522.page#20548
It was Robert(WA) from Western Australia.
Dafydd

Bif

Member Location: San Angelo TX Joined: Aug 14, 2008 01:48 Messages: 147 Offline

Mar 07, 2009 14:32

At least I got the first six letters of the name right...

(hanging head in shame)

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Mar 07, 2009 14:57

Thank God you've only got 3 letters in yours, Bip, no-one should get that wrong.

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