Folder of Videos as Menu Button?

I have about 200 short videos in five folders. I want each folder to be a menu button and when you press it, all the videos inside will play as one long movie.
For example, the first folder is "Monday", the next "Tuesday", etc. These are clips from a recent vacation organized--obviously---by day.
Can this be done?

anyone? can this be done in Toast?

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I have a home video of a wedding I am trying to burn to a DVD using iDVD. I have 7 chapter markers in the movie and I would like to use still clips from the video as the icons in the chapter menu buttons. However, once I select "still image", I can no longer scroll through the entire movie to select the image I want. Instead, it only gives me the first 1 minute 37 seconds of the clip. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
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Nevermind, I have figured it out.

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Using DVD Pro (version 4.2.1) for the first time, and I've discovered a lot of fun elements. Here is a question about the remote control settings.
I want people to be able to return to the +main menu+ if they want while playing the track, by pressing 'menu' (and I've found the resume feature, too). However, the track has chapters, which are assigned to 3 chapter menus. So, when they are playing a particular chapter, i want them to be able to return from it to the +chapter menu+ it came from, by pressing the 'menu' button.
However, this doesn't work: when playing the video track, pressing the 'menu' button takes me to the chapter menu assigned to that particular chapter, not the main menu that I assigned to the track.
Well, I see in the handbook that the marker remote setting takes precedence over the track setting ... so which would you find preferable:
1. when the viewer is playing the video, the menu button: goes back to the main menu.... then when the viewer is watching a particular chapter, pressing 'menu' also goes back to the main menu, instead of the chapter menu, so viewer has to navigate back into the 'scenes' menu
or
2 when watching the whole video, pressing 'menu' takes the viewer to the chapter menu and then has to 'up' to the Main menu.... and therefore when watching a chapter only, 'menu' button returns to the particular chapter's menu, which is fine.
I thought I would have the 'menu' button return to the chapter menu:: up button for faster/easier access to the main menu, for viewers just watching the video, and convenience for viewers watching a chapter.
What is the more experienced opinion?
thank you
Elizabeth

Hal MacLean wrote:... 'Stories'. If you are playing the track from your main menu, then the menu call for the track should take you back to the main menu. If you are on a chapter menu and start playback then instead of going to the chapter marker, go to a story that contains the chapter marker instead. The story can also have a menu call and end jump set.
Ahh!
The thing is, if you start a chapter playing, do you want the footage to continue to the end of the track, ....
Yes, that's exactly what i want, and as above, for the chapter in the chapter menu to return to that chapter menu
If the former, put all of your markers into a single story and set the menu call to go back to the chapter menu.
Thank you!
I had already created stories from the second track on the dvd, with each one having an end jump back to the story menu and as no one had replied to this post, i had decided to make the chapters in the main track into stories too, but wanted them to continue into the next chapter. In fact i'd already created these 11 stories, some with 2 chapters in them, when I read your post.
So i did as you said and put all the chapter markers into one story, with no end jump for the chapters, but a menu call from the story to the 'chapter' menu instead of the main menu. Much cleaner than the way i had started to do.
And it works just the way i want it to : track's menu call is to the main menu, 'chapter' menu calls are to the chapter menu. Thank you so much!
Elizabeth

How do I get video clips out of menu button?

iMovie 9.0.8 iDVD 7.1.2
I have a 90 minute video with 11 chapters. I found in "edit" menus something called populate drop zones" and clicked it for main page and two sub menu pages. When trying to burn, I got the error message "- There seems to be too much motion menu content in your project. Correct this problem before you continue burning this project."
Fine, I'll take out the damned videos out of the menus....BUT HOW? There seems to be no way to "unpopulate drop zones" I tried dragging a photo into the menu buttons without success.
I shouldn't have to start over and wait another hour for iDVD to read my iMovie project every time there is some change to make to drop zone content.

Sounds like Revolution and there's only one dropzone in the top menu. Type Command + i to bring up the info window for that menu. The dropzone will be the one in the middle:
It'll be the same for the submenus.
iDVD allows up to 15 minutes of playing time in motion menus. If you're referring to the buttons for the individual chapters you can change the button type to just text. Or if the video in the drop zone is longer than 15 minutes just add a still photo to the drop zone instead of a movie.
You can get an idea of the total menu playing time in the Project Info window:

Press the Menu button after stopping the video does not go back to Menu

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Small problem on a DVD burnt with DVD Studio Pro: when a track is playing, pressing the Menu button gets the user back to the Menu (good); but if the user has pressed Stop first, DVDplayer refuses to go back to the menu and says "unauthorized".
Is there a setting somewhere in DVD Studio Pro to correct this before I burn other DVDs of my project?
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On one Studio DVD after pushing stop I was able to get to the menu by pushing the menu button.
There are no authoring options in DSP to accomplish this.
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I am using DVD 08 with iMovie 06.
I set my chapters using iMovie 06. When I shared with iDVD 08 everything looked OK.
I normally do six scenes however this time I wanted eight. In the past when using iDVD 08 (or iDVD 06) there is always a blue arrow in the scene selection menu that when selected would take you back to the main menu.
For some reason I do not have the Blue arrow. I was able to create a new "Title Menu Button" but none of the options I can find is the default blue arrow.
If iDVD defaults to the blue arrow in this location why can't I find it as one of the many choices iDVD gives for a Title Menu Button?

Hello, Ziatron,
I use the same, iM6 with iDVD 8.
I am not sure I follow you. You mean that you make 6 or 8 chapter markers for this movie?
What theme are you using? If you use a theme that places 6 scenes on a submenu, iDVD will automatically create a second submenu with the remaining 2 scenes. Each submenu has 2 arrows to allow you to go back to the previous menu, or to the next submenu, except the last submenu which has only 1 arrow to go back to the previous menu.
If you want all 8 scenes on the first submenu, you can go to the submenu with the last 2 scenes and select them, then 'Copy' then go back to the first submenu and 'Paste' them. You may have to reposition the scene titles to accomodate the new ones. Be sure to go back once again to the submenu and delete the copied scenes. When you do that, go back to the previous submenu where all 8 scenes are, and you will see that the forward arrow to the last submenu is no longer present, since there are no longer any scenes to be in a separate submenu.
I have made over 100 movies, each with many scenes, but I don't have any submenus that show an arrow to return to the main menu, unless there is only one submenu.
If you want to add an entire submenu....say of extra photos/videos/etc. you can use the + button on the lower left of the iDVD screen to add. A folder will appear on the menu to which you have added the submenu, and when you open the folder, you will see the new submenu, with its return arrow.
You can change the folder icon to just a title using the 'Buttons' tab, but you cannot create navigation arrows yourself.
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5-Gen Nano Menu Button Not Working

My first post - Cannot get the Menu button to function on my 5th generaton Nano, always has functioned before. So I cannot get it to perform a reset! When I toggle the Hold switch & then hold the Center & Menu buttons down simultaneously, the Ipod turns off but I never see the Apple logo! Tried this while connected to different USB ports, while connected to external power, and while unconnected.
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I have reinstalled Itunes, and restored the Ipod to no avail!
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You posted to the wrong area of discussions. This is the 5th Generation iPod group (the video full sized iPods that were released previous to the "Classic" models). If you are asking a Nano question, you want to post to this area...
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HT2729 How can I maintain folder structure when copying more than 1 folder of videos to the iphone?

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I have a video tutorial course that I would like to be able to view on my iPhone, the only problem is that it is broken down into 6 folders - 1 for each subject.
And if I add the whole course to be synced via iTunes it gets copied ok. But it loses the original folder names that the files are stored in on my PC
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To follow how I solved this it might be good to know what I started with:
I have a main folder which I called 'Music Theory' and 6 sub-folders: 101, 102, 103, ....etc.
with up to 20 or so videos in each one.
Note: Only import one sub-folder at a time into iTunes and then do all the following actions BEFORE importing the next sub-folder:
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Select all the imported videos (hold down the Ctrl + A keys on the keyboard simultainiously).
Right click and select 'Get Info'
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Tick: 'Remember Position'        and from the Drop Down Box choose: 'Yes'
Now click on the 'Video' Tab of the 'Multiple Item Information' window and edit:
The 'Programme' text field (I entered Music Theory) This will be the main heading for all the folders that I want to add to this series.
The 'Series' text field (I entered 101 for the first sub-folder)
Now click the 'OK' button.
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The first part is now done!
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Menu button jumps to wrong submenu

Hi, I'd consider myself an advanced DVDSP user, I've used my own problem solving on this one and was hoping it is a known program glitch...anyone seen it before?
My main menu has four buttons linking to sub menus. When one of those buttons is selected it will play the video transition properly but then jump to a menu that has the background of a different menu, but the buttons are all screwed up. The buttons jump to various places throughout the DVD with no rhme or reason.
After my problem solving didn't turn anything up, I crossed it off as a freak incident and rebuilt the menu...which solved the problem. But then the same thing happened to another menu.
One noticible detail...everything works great in the inspector, the problem only occurs upon building it and viewing the video_TS folder in DVD Player or from the burned disc on a standard player.
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I've got to finish this up and record to DLT...I'm a little nervous about getting back the pressed discs with some random problem that didn't show up elsewhere.
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You still don't have an answer?? Give us a chance! This is a voluntary group you know - all users of the software just like you. Between your first post in this thread and the second is less than half an hour.
To answer your impatient question, the menu button is supposed to go from menu to track and from track to menu. It doesn't jump about randomly at all, it simply moves from one domain to the other. If yours is jumping randomly then you really need to examine that bit and sort out why first of all.
If you really want to disable the remote control menu button whilst in a menu, have a look in the user operations of the property inspector in the advanced tab. You can disable menu calls there. Mind you, it will make your disc somewhat unusual and go against a few established conventions... better to teach your viewers how to use the navigation than to simply disable it for them.

Adobe Encore Menu Buttons

I have a menu that works find when I preview in on my pc. it highlights the buttons and when I press play it plays the linked video.
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I have tried doing everything stated in the support page about resetting, reinstalling, safe mode, restarting pc etc.
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I have a javascript folder based process for allowing a person to step thru a list of pdf files performing an action on each file.
A menu button is used which executes a function to sign and close the current file and open the next file in the list.
When I execute this function from a menuitem (in a submenu under Tools as the parent) everything is fine and the files can be processed and stepped thru.
However users have asked for this command to be more accessible by placing it on the Acrobat toolbar.
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Windows displays a Data Execution Prevention windows.
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"Adobe Acrobat 8.2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. etc"
The windows event application log shows an entry
Faulting application Acrobat.exe, version 8.2.5.241, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x656c6946.
Category (100) or None, Event ID 1000 or 1001.
Does anyone know how to resolve this.
Assistance is appreciated.

Button code that fails is as below - in config.js (now trys to execute the Tools menu function that works "SIGN");
exec = app.trustedFunction(
function(filename)
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// script = "Function - DST_batchsign_addSignButton";
app.beginPriv();
console.println("\nDST:Batchsign_addSignButton");
global.version_DST_batchsign_addSignButton = "1.0";
var oButObjsign = {cName: "SIGN_ONCE ",
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Hi folks...
I hope someone can help me. I just tried using my IChat again today and noticed that I can not make video or audio calls at all. Both buttons are completely
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I noticed too that I do not have a com.apple.ichat.plist on my machine at all.. is this normal?
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Hi,
The first thing that strikes me is that this is a Jabber account.
You cannot Video to Non iChat sources.
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iChat Video with Jabber IDs is iChat to iChat only.
Also check the View Menu > Show Statuses
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Turn that off as well and you get a Buddy List like yours (no green icons for Buddies).
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Deleting Buddies
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