Still tryi8ng to get menu transistion media to play

[John Rofrano]

> I have a main menu in DVD Arch that has 3 seperate videos on it. I set the end action-destination of one of them to my transistion media.

Not sure how you are doing this but this is where you are going wrong. You cannot change the destination of a button that is created by dropping a video onto the menu. If you look at the Action property for that button you will see that Destination is grayed out and lock to the original video. (which is exactly what you are experiencing.)

You need to insert an Empty Button. Make the Destination of the Action of that empty button start the transition video. Make the End-Action of the transition video start the real video. Make the End-Action of the real video return to the menu.

~jr

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[Rick Rintala]

John

Thanks, I finally got it.

Now another question.

Can you make the highlight on a link or video delay in showing its self for a few seconds after that menu page is showing? Let me explain

I have introduction media playing on my DVD, when it finishes it goes to my main menu. I wanted to have my menu title on the left side of the screen, and the have 3 menu selections on the right side of the screen, I wanted them to fade in 1 at a time. but currently as soon as the page displays the highlight underline ( what im using ) is displayed before the text displaying the choices. Can you delay that highlight?

Rick Rintala
Flying Finn Video Services
Bedford Texas
http://www.flyingfinnvideo.com

[John Rofrano]

> I wanted them to fade in 1 at a time. but currently as soon as the page displays the highlight underline ( what im using ) is displayed before the text displaying the choices. Can you delay that highlight?

Yes, but not one at a time. When you set the End-Action of the menu to Loop, there will be a green marker inserted at the first frame. This is the menu start position. Moving this marker to the right, will delay the display of the menu items. This includes the title so you may have to add some of the items to the menu video in Vegas so that only the highlights are left to be displayed. They will display all at once so while you can create a video of them fading on one at a time, I would only display the highlights after all three are visible.

BTW, I cover all of this and more in the VASST Absolute Training for Vegas+DVD training series on Disc 3: Introduction to DVD Architect.

~jr

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