Assign audio to a button
Hi there
I am building a complex dvd with loads of different menus.
On one of the menu, I am trying to assign a specific audio to a button without ever leaving the menu page so that I keep access to the other button at all time. Each button needs to be assigned to different audio tracks.
If anyone has any ideas how to do this, any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Vee
This is possible but its a little clunky. You would need to duplicate your menu to match the number of audio tracks. Assign each button to Auto Activate to the next menu containing the new audio.
So if you have 4 button which will need 4 different audio tracks you would need to duplicate that menu 4 times while having each menu hold different audio. From there set each button to auto activate to the appropriate menu. Navigation will be slow since each toggle between buttons must focus the laser on another menu in your title.
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on run
open (choose file with prompt ("Choose movie file(s)") ¬
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with multiple selections allowed)
end run
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{"Sound Track 4", "LFE Screen", {"LFE Screen"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 5", "Left Surround", {"Left Surround"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 6", "Right Surround", {"Right Surround"}}, ¬
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list channel_layouts_map : list of {trk, trk_new, layouts}
trk = (string or integer) name or index of source sound track
trk_new = (string or integer) new name for source track (integer i denotes original name of sound track i)
layouts = list of audio channel layout for channel(s) in source sound track
Mono
Left
Right
Center
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Left Surround
Right Surround
Left Center
Right Center
Center Surround
Rear Surround Left
Rear Surround Right
Left Total
Right Total
Discrete-0
Discrete-1
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e.g. 1
{{"Sound Track 1", "Left", {"Left"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 2", "Right", {"Right"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 3", "Center", {"Center"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 4", "LFE Screen", {"LFE Screen"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 5", "Left Surround", {"Left Surround"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 6", "Right Surround", {"Right Surround"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 7", "Left Total", {"Left Total"}}, ¬
{"Sound Track 8", "Right Total", {"Right Total"}}}
e.g. 2
{{1, 1, {"Left", "Right"}}, ¬
{2, 2, {"Center", "LFE, Screen"}}, ¬
{3, 3, {"Left Surround", "Right Surround"}}, ¬
{4, 4, {"Left Total", "Right Total"}}}
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1) open f
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end repeat
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close
end tell
end tell
end script
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