Changing scene selection menu action

I'm trying to create a DVD with a particular theme. Everything works fine until I try the Scene Select button in the Preview Mode. When the Scene Selection menu comes up it is using a theme from a previous project. I am unable to change this to the theme being used in the first menu for this project.
How can I cancel the old project theme out of the Scene Selection menu?
Or how can I change it once I've started a project using a particular theme?
Thanks for any help you can give!

If you go to the main menu and then Advanced/Apply Theme To Project, it won't do that? If not:
This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.

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I will try and make this question as unconfusing as possible. I have a DVD with a basic menu screen. It offers to play the whole film or go to the scene selection menu. When I go to the scene selection menu obviously I have the option to do just that. When I select a scene (or chapter) it will play it. My question is, if I have picked the wrong scene or I just want to go back to the scene selection menu, how do I make that happen? If I press menu it will just take me back to the main menu. It seems tedious to do it that way to keep having to go back to the main menu then to the scene selections menu. In short
What do I need to do to make the dvd go back to the scene selections menu when it was the last one selected?

What do I need to do to make the dvd go back to the scene selections menu when it was the last one selected?
You can also program the remote control's functions specifically for your DVD. It's not easy to understand in the manual but it's all explained. For instance, you could program the TITLE or MENU keys to return specifically to the scene selection menu. The problem with changing the programming is that's how the key will work for your entire disk unless, of course, you can figure out how to use the user memory registers and write a little script that will have conditionals.
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In scene selection mode, can you make iDVD return to the scene selection menu after playing that scene without continuing to play all the other scenes?

After selecting one scene from the scene selection menu, the following scenes play automatically, as if it were in "play movie" mode. Is there a way to stop that behavior and have the DVD return to the scene selection menu after playing just the selected scene?

OK
So what You want is a "Play All" button resp. a "Play one Chapter at a time" one.
Then
BAD News - There are Non ! in iDVD
GOOD News - it can in part be faked.
read on
Play all resp. one chapter at a time
Play All Button
1. There are NO - Play All - button in any version of iDVD
2. It can be faked in several ways
• Easiest and most fault proof way is to make a doublet movie containing All and with
Chapters set to match. It will take up x2 space but is easy to understand and produce.
Cons: Tried this in iMovie’11 by Exporting out each part as a full Quality QT.mov then Importing back into new events and putting these into a new project (Play All project). Resulting DVD had Audio that was OK (as parts) - BUT the picture was very bad and standing photo were cut of in height. So the Play All movie has to be created from same material and exactly in the same way as the individual parts + then Chapters has to be set to match.
• It's said that one can put all movies into a Photo/SlideShow and this will also
give the function of a Play All button - Tested - and ONE HAS TO un-cheque - Scale pictures to TV-Safe area else it will be a black frame all around and a small picture !
Mike Evangelist1
You might be able to get close to what you want by using a slideshow in iDVD. (It's not widely known, but you can put videos in a slideshow.) If you set the slide duration to manual, playback will pause after each movie/slide, and you can continue with the 'next' button.
3. Using another program to do this e.g.. Roxio Toast™ where there is a Play All button option.
Summary
a. Making a Play All movie with same care as the individual Part movies - gives a very Good Result
b. Using Roxio Toast™ - also an usable way to go
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I'm new to dvd studio pro & thought I was on the right track when I created chapter markers in Final Cut & exported as a quicktime w/ markers, but the dvd studio program either does not recognize the chapters, or I do not know where to look for them. I'm finding the manual very confusing, as it does not appear to directly say how to make up a scene selection menu using the chapter markers. Maybe I'm reading in the wrong place?
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Take a look here for a workaround if markers not showing up (there are others)
http://dvdstepbystep.com/fasttrackover.php
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4568425&#4568425
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http://dvdstepbystep.com/passelections.php

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Hello: I've successfully created a scene selection menu using chapter markers. Looks good, but when I go into simulator and check out the scene selection menu, I noticed that the video begins to play from the marker points without stopping. How do I create an end or loop point for all the chapters that are displayed on the scene selection menu?
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Thank you for your reply. However, I think I've done a poor job describing my issue. What I have is a motion picture that I want users to be able to choose "Play Movie" from the main menu, or "Scene Selection." If they choose "Scene Selection" they get the menu with the chapters laid out. If they choose a chapter, then they can jump to that part of the movie and watch it from that point on till the end. I've got all that working.
My problem is on the scene selection menu itself. The video samples that are shown in each chapter window or button start up and don't loop back, so essentially, if you jump to the scene selection menu, you're watching the movie from several different start points, and it just runs on till the end if you don't turn it off. I like the fact that you can view a video snippet in each chapter window, but I want to be able to limit how much is played and have it loop back.

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Hi there,
I'm currently working on the DVD for a feature length film. The DVD includes working video special features and I'm trying to install a scene selection menu now. Unfortunately when I press a button corresponding to a chapter it plays maybe the first frame before returning me to my scene selection menu. The same thing happens when I try to "Preview From Here" on a specific chapter, when it is right clicked on the timeline. The chapters have no overrivdes or end actions attached to them. Any idea how to solve this problem?
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It works now. I clicked the Preview DVD playback triangle button (as I had done before) and waited for the main menu to appear. After mousing over the words "Scene Selection" the yellow circle was adjacent to scene selection I then clicked on the words "Scene Selection" and was taken to the scene selection menu showing the 3 scenes I had set up.
My mistake before was in clicking on the yellow filled-in circle. Nothing happens.
In design mode (with the four submode buttons shown) navigation is not predictable.
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Is there a way to do this? In each scene selection menu, I'd like to have DVDSP automatically create a subset of selectable menus based on the total number of menus and the number of selections in each menu.
For instance, you often see something like "1-8", "9-16", etc in each scene selection menu of a DVD. I thought there might be a way to automate this process, much like DVDSP already automates chapter connections and navigation buttons between menus in tracks with embedded markers.
I suspect I'll have to do this manually, but I thought I'd see if anyone has come up with something. The reason I'm asking is that I have to create 6 dual-layer DVDs with around 50 chapters per DVD, 8 chapter selections per menu. Each DVD will have different content, but the menus will look the same. It would be nice if the user could jump from, say, menu 1 to menu 7 without continually pressing "Next" and this was process was automated to save me a little time.
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The closest I've come to this is saving a template.
I do a lot of DVDs that are similar in content -- say, three tracks each with a basic menu -- so I saved the overall project without any assets and just with "place text here" for text placeholders. When I make a new DVD, I just copy that template project, rename it, then add my assets and enter in the text descriptions for each of the tracks.
Even if you have a different number of tracks from disc to disc, if the basic layout is the same (especially the number and hierarchy of the menus), you could just have the maximum number of tracks and menus you'll need for the project and the maximum number of buttons you'll need on each menu. Then when you make an actual DVD, just delete the tracks/menus/buttons that aren't used.
For example, say you always have one main menu and up to five submenus, and each submenu has up to four tracks. Make the template with the main menu, buttons pointing to the five submenus, and four tracks on each submenu. Go ahead and add the twenty empty tracks to the project, point all the submenu buttons at the tracks, set the end-jump and any other details on each of the tracks, the "back" button on each submenu pointing back to the main menu (or your "1-8", "9-16"), etc. Then say you make a DVD that only has three tracks on one of the submenus... Easy; delete the extra button on that submenu and the corresponding empty track.
And if you're using a Photoshop layered file, save a template of that, too. Keep all the text stuff as text layers so you can edit it later. Then make a copy for a specific DVD, modify any text, etc. All the images should be in the right place, and assuming the text is in the same position and you have your buttons set up right in DVDSP, everything should still line up, even after you change the text (1-8, 9-16, etc.).
I've found it saves me a lot of time since I don't have to remember to set the end-jumps, the custom "menu" remote option (when they hit "menu" on the remote while in the middle of watching a track), etc. All I do is drop the assets in, drop the right asset onto each empty track, and put in the text on the menus describing each track.
I don't know of an automated way for it to figure out how many submenus you have, either. Which is why I put the maximum that I'll have on each menu for the template. It's much faster and easier to delete the extras on each new DVD than to try to line up new buttons and/or images consistently each time.

Encore CS5 main feature and scene selections from same Video?

Hi all,
I have tried to search for a previous thread, in case there was one, but cannot see it. So, would really appreciate your help, please. I have contacted Adobe helpline when I first got the programme a few years ago, but always ended up speaking to people who did not know themselves. This took up a lot of time and still not resolved.
I usually author Blu-rays in Encore CS5 and cannot seem to grasp how to use the same video import to both, link to the 'Play Main Video' (so it plays the full video) and use the same timeline for scene selections.
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My 'workaround' to this has been to import the main video and import a cut down version of scenes edited in Pre Pro CS5. This takes up more file space and I am sure slows down the encoding/ converting to image file.
I would like to import the video once only. Use a link to play full video and use the scene selection menu to select the scenes.
I hope I have explained my dilemma clearly.
Thanking you in advance.
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It stops because you probably put end actions on each chapter.
There are two main methods for chapter play if you have created a single video for the whole movie (so it is on one timeline).
The method that puts end actions on the chapters requires you to use overrides, and is difficult for many users.
The easier method is using chapter playlists. Create a CHAPTER playlist, put one chapter in it, then link the chapter button to that chapter playlist. There will be one chapter playlist for each chapter. Each chapter itself has no end action set, and you set the end action for each chapter playlist to "last menu."
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Adding Selection menu has caused burning problems

I'm using iMovie9 version 8.0.4 with iDVD version 7.0.4. I first burned a project with only the Play button. Was able to change the title (ie, used a different title in iDVD than the one used in iMovie) with no problem. However, after adding chapter markers and having a Scene Selection menu I find that if I change the title of the DVD (the Play button) it will spit out the blank DVD when I try to burn. If I allow it to keep the title imported with the iMovie project it will do a burn. Has anyone else experienced this? I don't see a way to change the title of the iMovie project to match the one I want to use in iDVD without creating a new iMovie project. I thought of doing that then...what? importing my existing project to the new one and renaming it? Is that possible? Don't want proceed any farther without getting some advice because I fear losing the project that I have put so much work into and having to start anew. Any suggestions?

Ah. File/Save as Disc Image. Too easy. After waiting about an hour I fired up the MacBook and tried again. Burn went fine. So I guess the limit, at least on this computer, is two consecutive discs. However, back to my original problem of changing the title in iDVD so that it differs from the one in iMovie. At that particular juncture I hadn't tried to burn any discs. I simply opened iDVD, changed the title, (same project I had burned the day previously using the same title from iMovie) tried to burn and the disc was rejected. If no one else has had a problem with a burn after changing the title when there is a Scene Selection menu, then maybe it's something else. However, it burned OK after I changed the title in iMovie to match the one I wanted to use in iDVD then republished (had to make a few minor changes first in iMovie because it wouldn't allow me to publish the same movie again with only a title change). I really appreciate your help and will give you "Helpful" credit for your responses but can't mark this solved until I'm certain that there isn't some kind of eccentric incompatibility issue using iMovie9 version 8.0.4 with iDVD version 7.0.4 involving the title change. Many thanks to you and all the people who have been so helpful in the forum.

Scene Selection JPEGs Problem

I've made an iDVD and used garage band to set up the chapter markers. I then shared the movie with iDVD. The scene selection menu is set up nicely. I have put different images on each scene selection page. The DVD intro page has a different picture too in the back ground. The whole thing looks great when we check it all out on the computer. We burn a DVD and then when we play it on our DVD player/tv an image (jpeg) file that is on a scene selection page shows up on the introduction page of DVD, on top of the image we selected, why? Also, at times when using the "pass through" theme on the scene selection page instead of it having the moving text on the bottom of the page that says "scene selections 1-6" is says "Pass Through Chapters", but not on each page.

Nope, that wasn't the problem. I have even started with a fresh iDVD project, deleting the original. I am using iDVD '08, but chose the pass through theme from the 7.0. For some reason when the DVD burns it changes the ending photo on the menu page. It changes to one of the images I chose for one of the scene selection menus. I've tried different things and still have the same problem. Is it just a bug or a problem I am having using a 7.0 theme in iDVD '08? I have made quite a few coasters of dvd's that are not how I intended them to look. Also, after importing (sharing) from garage band, the first of three scene selection menus has "pass through chapters" moving across the screen instead of "scenes 1-6" as it should.
Frustrated here.

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