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When I was testing, the loop point didn't spawn in the buttons. They appeared the minute the video started, looking glaringly out of place

However.... I did find this:
http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=102394

And combined with the documentation, I was able to figure it out all out. Its a really wayward process, but essentially you create a subtitle track. Force it to be always visible. Drop a full screen graphic, in four shades, then create the overlays, and button zones over video, then select color matching for the specified shades (which doesn't work as neatly as one would hope). It took me awhile to get the shades to work properly.  In order to make subtitle graphics buttonable, you have to create a button marker. Also notable, you can only have one track visible at a time thus one graphic for all the buttons on the screen. Your overlays become a little more space limited.

Its not an actual menu at this point so I'll still have to create a menu which I can just script to divert back to the intro movie at the chapter point when the video starts. 

I suppose I really should force myself to really get DVD Studio Pro down... When I was at UO, there was a course in it but it was from 6-9, and during that term I already had 12-6 classes during the days it was offered. I think 9 hours of straight class in the same room would have tested sanity.

Hmmm, this will be good to know for a project I have in the works right now... thanks Droo.

-mark

Greg Grant wrote:

can transitions have audio?

I doubt the ones generated by DVDSP can, but you can create custom transitions using whatever video app you use. It's nothing more than a video/audio track in between 2 menus.

Greg Grant wrote:

I've created a video track, assigned it as a transition. It works, except the audio doesn't play...

To be honest, I don't know how to "assign transitions," per se. I actually never use the transitions feature in the app. What I do is set it up so that when the user activates an option, the transition video is played (as if it were a normal video track--no different than, say, the feature presentation), then have that video lead to the target menu.

Play Main MENU->(press button)->Play Transition TRACK->Play Next MENU

Well assigning transitions as mentioned basically plays a video file between the menu and track.  So you create a video track, place whatever in it, and then assign it as a transition on a button. When button is pressed, it plays that interium video and then goes to the said video track. However it doesn't seem to play the audio which seems odd. I'll try using a PCM audio track.