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Help..Deadline Looming – DVDA Navigation Question
Hoping I can get a little help on doing something that has got to be really easy, but I’m a little out of practice and this job came up quickly.
I’ve been asked to produce a short 10-12 second visual bump with audio for a national sales meeting next week. It will be used as a transition between speakers at the convention (meaning as a Presenter finishes their presentation and leaves the stage this “visual bump” is projected onto two big screens on both sides of the stage. (sort of like when presenters are pushed off the stage at the Academy Awards :^)
When the bump ends – they want the image (which is a PNG file and now part of the final AVI output file) that I had imported into Vegas to stay up on the screen until they need to reply the bump for the next speaker.
The times between speakers could vary from 20 to 60 minutes (meaning the image may need to stay static on the screen for a while. At which point the tech engineer will need a simple way to hit “play” and start the bump from the top.
I’ve produced the bump in Vegas 6.0 and am attempting to master the DVD in DVDA 2.0.
Can anyone assist in giving some direction as to how best to do this.
Many thanks in advance….
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Take a look at my DVDA authoring help needed thread and see if Edward’s reply helps you as well as it did for me.
This was done with DVDA 3 so I’m not sure if it’ll work with 2 but you have nothing to lose except some time. -
Thanks Mike – I followed the directions and got it to work.
One small problem though. When my “bump” ends and goes back to the main menu with the PNG that is “Holding” – there is a slight “resetting” of the image where it appears to be doing some with the aspect ratio. The final frame of the bump seems a little more “compressed in size than that of the PNG (although I used the same 720 x 480 image for both.
This is a small problem and it won’t prevent me from having this thing done on time, but I hope it won’t be to “jolting” to the audience when projected on 2 large screens….
Thanks for your help – it’s much appreciated.
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Thanks Charles. Your solution solved my aspect ratio changing that I mentioned to Mike, but the PNG file would not give me the option of “hold” or “Loop” – only “stop” or “link”
Am I doing something wring with the set up?
Thanks again for the input…
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just make the png the end action and hold at the end of your video. then hit play to restart the video when needed.
Charlie
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I don’t have my vegas machine on now, but try making the png art your “main menu” and have the video return to that.
Charlie
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Thanks – I’ll give it a try…..
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That did it….thanks for the help!
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