[Jim Prisby]

This NIST site has all of that kind of info and more. There is quite a descrepency on the longivity of DVD’s identified here…100-200 years, 30 years, Some reports elsewhere claim they start to degrade after 3-5 years. There doesn’t seem to be a definite answer you can give to a client. But, the care and handling guide listed on their site seems reasonable.

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/index.html

[Jim Prisby]

Since I didn’t have a left column as you identified but only one column I suspected and then confirmed that I had somehow dragged the right column over the top of the left column and that’s why I wasn’t seeing the other commands. When I tried to drag from the left side of the column it revealed the “hidden” left column. I couldn’t tell that I had done that otherwise. Thanks so much, Ed, for helping me discover that. Now everything makes sense. Maybe a few others can learn from this.

[Jim Prisby]

After digging further into this DVDA problem I had in not understanding what you meant by “Destination Button” in my Media Properties I realized that it is supposed to be a visual choice on the menu along with “Destination Chapter” and others. Those choices are not showing up. As an example, when I drag 2 clips to a menu 1 page and then double click on one of the clips and then click on “End Action” the choices I have under Media Properties are:

Link
Most Recent Menu
Start
N/A
No Change
No Change
No Change

When I change “Most Recent Menu” to Menu 1 my choices are:

Link
Menu 1
Start
Default
No Change
No Change
No Change

When I choose “Default” I can chose which button I want the highlight to be on when I return to menu 1. No where are the choices for the “Destination Button” and others. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

[Jim Prisby]

I have this problem sometimes and found that if I save the DVDA project then exit and restart DVDA it no longer shows that the files need to be recompressed.

[Jim Prisby]

It worked! The key was not to choose “Most Recent Menu” but the actual menu name. Thanks so much for your patience. I didn’t know DVDA had this capability. In all of the DVDA traiing DVDs I’ve watched I’ve never seen this demonstrated. Was this new in DVDA 3?
Thanks again for your support,
Jim

[Jim Prisby]

Did they say when Cinescore would be released?

[Jim Prisby]

I have Sonicfire Pro 3 and was thinking of upgrading to version 4 but when I saw Cinescore I decided to get more info. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Jim Prisby]

Thank you very much for the info, Jay

[Jim Prisby]

Edward,
Sorry, I’m missing something here…I fully understand how to set the destination to the menu with the end action but where do I set the destination button to the button I want highlighted? I don’t see that selection option anywhere in the Media Properties.

[Jim Prisby]

Gary,
Thanks for the reply but what I’m talking about is the button highlight automatically advancing to the next event/chapter button on the menu, not for that next event/chapter to start playing immediately. You describe how to do this in great detail on your DVDA training DVDs which requires making an extra copy of the menu page for each event/chapter. That method requires a lot of extra work especailly if you have a lot of chapters. I would like to have a simple setting that gives me the option to choose that setting or leave it at the default.

Thanks