Having a text card come up at the beginning of a DVD same way the FCC warning does

[George Mandl]

The easiest way to do this is to add it to the head of your sequence in FCP before exporting.

HOWEVER…. if you’ve already exported your movie, you can create another little sequence and program the DVD to play this first before your feature begins.

Step 1. Make your FCC warning video in FCP, and export it.

Step 2. Program this as your first play in DVDSP.

Step 3. Program the end jump of your first play as the feature.

You can play around with this too. For example, you might want the first play to be a main menu, and then when you select “your movie” on the menu, it actually goes to the warning, which then automatically goes to the feature. The key is to play around with the “first play” and “end jump” settings in DVDSP.

Hope this helps.

[Chris Guevarra]

Thanks for the quick response, George! I really appreciate it.

I think I may have confused you however. To clarify, what I would like to do is have the “FCC Warning” play before the actual DVD menu comes up (instead of it coming up right before the FCP sequence and after you press “Play movie”).

Once you insert the DVD into the player, the very first thing that should pop up is the “FCC Warning” and then the main menu should come up with the “Play Movie” button in it.

Sorry about the confusion 🙂

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com

[George Mandl]

That’s easy.
Just play the FCC warning (which is technically a 10 second video clip with fades) as the first play of the disc. Then program the end jump of that to your main menu.

[Scott Sheriff]

What ever asset is marked as ‘fist play’ is the first thing the DVD will do, hence the term first play. The first play can be a menu, or other asset like a moving clip.
Export your title card as a separate element. Then you can bring that asset into DVDSP and make it the first play. Then make your end jump be whatever you want to go to next.

If you attach your warning title card to the beginning of your piece, instead of making it a separate asset it will play every time the actual piece is played. Not very elegant, and annoying. If the warning is a separate asset, you can make it so that it only plays once when the disc is first is inserted, but not on subsequent replays of the disc on that particular insertion.

Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com

[Chris Guevarra]

Awesome! I knew there would be a simple solution to this.

Thanks a bunch Scott and George for your prompt solution!

-Chris

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com

[Bill Lee]

Oh, and of course you have to disable all of the remote buttons while it is playing for more of the “Anti-piracy” warning look and feel. 😉 Oh, and your warning should be at least three minutes long, so they really, really, really know and understand that this DVD is a rough cut. 😎

Track Inspector>User Operations:>Disable All.

Bill Lee
You could also put some previews of your coming video projects before the main menu too, and make them unskippable too! 🙂

[Bret Williams]

And after the warning, don’t forget to add 5-10 previews for old movies that the user can’t skip through. Gives you that true hollywood dvd feel as well.

[Chris Guevarra]

LOL! Or maybe I’ll just make an “FCC warning” that at first feels like a 2-minute trailer to a crime suspense movie and tells the audience that if they ever bootleg this DVD that the Interpol is going to burst through their windows and arrest them and hunt down their family. Oh wait…

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com