[Jim Brook]

I’ve just found this thread because I am having the same problem with DVD Architect Pro 5.2.

It’s surprising because everything else with DVD Architect is better by far than anything other dvd creation sosfter I’ve tried before.

Admittedly the behaviour of “Top Menu” and “Main Menu” buttons on commercial DVDs is erratic, but they must be under control of some command available to the player because they do work well sometimes.

It would be good if Sony could plug this gap. I don’t like creating dvds which don’t take users back to the top menu when they click that button in the player.

[Jim Brook]

Alf, thanks for your reply.

Yes I did expand the tracks afterwards. Should I have done? Interestingly I discovered that the transitions which were in in the combined track had disappeared.

I guess my real problem is I don’t really understand the mechanism and limitations of multicamera editing. For example I don’t understand how the switching from one camera to another is achieved. It’s obviously not done using compositing envelopes because I see that they don’t change.

I can see that if I’m using multicamera mode to switch betwen synchronised cameras, then could be a tremendous boon -providing that I made all the correct decisions at the time. However I know that I’ll want to finetune the result to correct decisions made on the fly.

For example what about moving the switch cut back a couple of seconds, changing a cut into a transition or vice versa? And is it true that if I remove multicamera and go back to separate tracks then it is inevitable that transitions will be lost?

I know there’s a lot of questions here and I’m sure what I want to know is written or shown somewhere, so I don’t expect anybody to go through it all step by step. As I mentioned I have looked at some video tutorials on the subject and they all stop at the point when the camera selections have been made.

However I would appreciate a kind of a general comment about the limitations and inner workings of multicamera and the workflow options. Ideally I would want to be able to use the multicamera function to get things approximately right and then be free to make changes later, getting all the advantages without any disadvantages; but at present this doesn’t seem possible. At the moment using the compositing envelope still seems to be the best overall option because how it functions is completely transparent.

Thanks for any further help.

Jim.