Play All option

I've been making music videos of my granddaughter's softball team. Each video is a separate iMovie project running three and a half to five minutes, depending on the song I use. I export each video as a QT movie at full quality, then bring these into iDVD so the finished DVD will have three or four different videos on it.
I did this earlier this year for her basketball team, and each video shows up on the menu screen as a selection that can be played. I wanted to add a "Play All" option like you see on many commercial DVDs, so all the videos can be watched in sequence without returning to the menu screen, however I could see no way to do this. You have to select one of the videos, it plays then returns you to the main menu when it finishes.
Is it possible to have a Play All option when bringing multiple QT movies into iDVD? I've got version 3 of iDVD. If it doesn't work in that version, does anyone know if a newer version allows this?

In iMovie, sequence what have been your separate iMovie projects into a single, compiled iMovie project. You can add chapter markers at the beginning of each segment.
When you bring the single, compiled project into iDVD you can have the chapter markers automatically listed (see Preferences) on menus as scene/segment selection options. Or you can choose not to list the chapter markers as scenes and still have the capacity to fast-forward on the tv or monitor remote to move from segment to segment.
Given that you have enough space on the DVD, then, you'll have one compiled movie and also separate movies for each segment. I personally like to access the segments as separate movies (as you've already arranged) rather than as scenes.
I'm speaking from my experience with iDVD 4--hoping you have chapter markers in iDVD3!

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Best way to create a seperate Play All option...

On my sub-menus I have an option to Play All of the video titles for that sub-menu. What is the best way to do this? I was planning on creating one time line with the corresponding video clips for each sub-menu. If I do it like this will I have double the amount of data using space on my DVD?
I haven't had the chance to experiment myself... I am waiting on footage to render as I type.
Thanks,
Robert

Robert.
Are these titles all joined together, or separate clips?
If the former, then point the "Play All" to the first chapter, and then create a series of Chapter Playlists, one for each clip, and point the submenu buttons to these. The end actions should go to the submenu they were called from.
If the latter, then set up a series of ordinary playlists.
For "Play All", create a playlist with every clip in the correct sequence.
For the individual clips, simply point the buttons to the individual timelines, and have their end actions reverting to the submenu they were called from.
Hope this helps.

Is there a 'Play All' option for DVD menu?

Hi,
I was hoping someone can possibly help here... I have created a DVD menu in iDVD with 8 separate movie items each with their own button (with underlined feature), but with no sub menus or additional pages.
Incidentally, these items are home movies, transfered from old Hi8 tapes, edited in iMovie then added to iDVD.
The 8 items have all successfully loaded to the iDVD menu and will play when each item is selected (in test mode).
However, I was hoping to also add a 'Play All' button so that the whole DVD content can be played as one continuous piece if required, rather than being limited to being able to play only individual items at a time and then having to return to the menu page in order to select the next item.
Please can anyone offer any help here? I'm very new to Macs/iDVD etc so simple, basic guidance would be much appreciated!!!
Many thanks,
Robin-UK

Hi Robin
Welcome to apple discussions. I use Toast (personal choice only) in this situation since it has a play all check box. But then you don't get the fancy menus.
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There is no such check box within iDvd for selecting play all but you can set up iDvd's preferences to address scene selection menus when a movie/s is added. And here's how you do that:
A second option might involve adding the 8 separate movies to the slideshow feature within iDvd for continuous play. And yes you can add photos as well as movies to idvd's slideshow feature with a number of added benefits which I won't go into here. But if you want more info on this procedure just look at a few of Old Toad's prior posts / replies on this iDvd forum.
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software / products that may be mentioned in this topic. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information above at your own discretion.
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The "play all" option has been removed from music on Genres, Albums or Artist

When I am in the mood for certain genres such as classical or R&B, I used to be able go straight to the genre and at the very top of all the songs in that genre I could choose "play all". However, since this last update, that option has disappeared. I tried using Siri by making requests like "play classical" but as we all know, Siri can be testy most times and it gets really frustrating.
Apple, please bring back this option, we all don't always just want to listen to playlists.

If I turn it off can I still sync new music that I buy and want on all devices?

Apple TV Needs a play all option

as the title states, i hate creating playlists and the ease of use is not there..... i have a few cartoon shorts i love just continuously playinf but would like to just hit a play all button.......

Provide feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Does the iPhone support a "Random Play All" feature?

After reading the iPhone manual on-line, I did not see direct support for a "Random Play All" option.
Please tell me that this was an omission in the manual and it is directly supported by the iPhone, because this is a deal breaker for our family if it is not directly suported.

It might help if I had any idea what that feature was.
Do you mean a shuffle feature-where it randomly picks music tracks and plays them?
If so-the 3g iPhone has it.

PLAY ALL - simple? Or no?

Simple SD dvd, 3 tracks, one = 79 min, 1 = 3 min, 1 = 4 min...client also wants a PLAY ALL button. It's about 4.4 GB now. How do I make a PLAY ALL option without causing problems for the end jump on the tracks? How to make a PLAY ALL button/option?
Thanks
K

You cannot use a story structure when you have three different tracks. Stories are sub-sets of the track they are in, and cannot have chapters from different tracks added to them.
You also don't need to go back to FCP - all you have to do, assuming your footage is all the same format (if you have some 4:3 and some 16:9 then you will need to either use a scripted solution or go back to FCP) is take the footage from each track and add it to a single track, one section after the other. You've already compressed it, so just drop all three MPEG files into the same track.
You can then add a chapter marker at the end of the clips (no need for the end of the last one) and use a story structure to get a play all. There are two ways to do this... but in your case you should add all of the chapter markers for the ends of the clips into a single story, and set the menu call and end jump for the story. Your menu then needs a button that points to the story container (and not the track or any chapter marker). The chapters within the story will play back, and the end jump for the story will take place when they all have played back.
As for your last question - yes, you can do this, but you'll need to script it. it's not particularly hard to do, but if you've not done any scripting then I'd go with the story based method above. If you want to see the scripted solution, go back to here: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-3/
or here for a longer (but certainly simpler) method: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-1/

Is there a "play-all" type feature?

Hi...I'm making my first DVD with iDVD and I was wondering if there is a way to have a "play-all" option. Basically, I have a bunch of small video clips in a sub-menu that I would like to have the option of viewing individually or all in a continuous mode, similar to what you would see on a movie's special features.
I have searched and know that you can "loop" videos together, but it looks like if you do this, then you don't have the option of playing them individually. Is there a way to create an optional "play all" feature?
Any info would be great. Thanks!

Not as you are describing, but you can do a work around. Move your clips into imovie and create a continous movie.During the process add in chapter markers between your clips. Then share the project to idvd. You will get a play movie (to play the entire movie and a scene selection menu that will have your individual movies in it. You can then rename the play movie and scene selection buttons to whatever you want. Or, you can click on folder icon at the bottom of the screen and move the clips around.
David

Connect Independent Clips (Play All)

Hello,
I am new to DVD Studio -- have a fairly simple question I think:
I am making a DVD that will contain a number of short vignettes/films. Each film is independent of the other but I would like a "Play All" option so a viewer can easily watch one after the other after the other.
I know I can accomplish this by compressing all the clips into one big movie, making chapters, and having the chapters selected return to the main menu, but I don't want to have to put all the clips into a single mpeg file (I would rather do subtitles and everything independtly on a clip by clip basis as I work on them).
So, is there an easy way to make all the independent clips play back to back ? Is that the "story" feature ? I played around with it but couldn't figure it out.
Thanks,
Damon

Stories would be the easiest approach and the easiest way to do the stories would be to place them all on one track with chapter markers between each clip
The Play All Story would include all Chapter Markers
If you want just to play a section you add just the marker to the section
For instance if there are 3 clips, with Markers 1,2,3 - PLay All Story would have markers 1,2,3 - Just section 1 would have just marker 1, etc.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/passelections.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php
There are also other approaches, for instance you can make two stories for each seperate track, so track 1, 2 & 3 would each have a Play All Story and a Play Sol story (each would be identical with one marker, the difference being the end jumps for the stories would be either set to the next track you want to play (Play All) or return to the Menu (Play Solo)
And the last way would be scripting.
Button action would be to a script
mov GRPM (whichever you want) SPRM 8//this sets the GRPM to the button that was pressed. Buttons are in increments of 1024 so easier to divide by 1024 to keep track
div GPRM (whatever), 1024 //makes it 1-4
//assumes button 1 is play track 1, button 2 is play track 2, button 3 is play track 3, button 4 is play all
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 1
Jump Track 2 if GRPM = 2
Jump Track 3 if GPRM = 3
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 4 //both selections 1 and 4 will go to track 1 to start
Then the end jumps for each track (could be rolled into one script but you can make a few may be easier to follow)
So for track 1
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 1 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 2
So for track 2
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 3 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 3
Track 3 will always return to menu since it is last in either event, so just set end jump

Creating play all button

Hi,
Took a quick look at the help regarding creating a "play all" button from 6 separate chapters. I did not find if this can be done. Any idea's?
I have not played with chapter markers - perhaps this is what I need to do - if so I'll have to recreate the seperate chapters or movies in to 1 then add chapter markers. (If I read this right that is what may work).
Thanks
Bill

There is no 'Play All' option in iDVD.
You need to merge your 6 clips into one movie in iMovie HD 6 - NOT iMovie '08 - and create chapter markers.

Play all and individually

hi all
i have a disc that has one track with 21 different small videos. i want the option of playing one in particular from a menu with all the options in it, and i want it to jump back to the menu when it finishs. however i also want a play all option, so that if you select play all, you can watch all of these videos in sequential order without jumping back. so far i havent figured out how to get both, just one or the other. i tried a story and it screwed up my ability to use the original tracks chapters for end jumps. help please!
austin

Depending on the amount of media, you could do one of two things:
1.) make one master clip ("play all") with chapters, then making a story for each chapter
2.) compress the "play all" clip as well as individual clips for each segment
Either would work, and I would say that if you're working with less than an hour of media you can use the second option. The benefit of the second option is that you can sometimes do a little more with transitions between segments in the "play all" section if you can make separate clips for the segments to play them individually.
At least that's been my experience.

How can I play all the songs in one genre in iOS7's music app?

Suppose you want to listen to only blues music. In the music app in iOS 7 I can't find a way to select all the songs from one genre. When you select "genre" it takes you to a list of artist in that genre but there's no way to select all the songs. In previous iOS all you had to do was select "all artist" and then "play all songs". In iOS 7 I can't seem to find that option. I've tried using Siri but if the genre of music you have is not in English then Siri won't understand. Also Siri only works if it's connected to a network. What if your not connected and you want to listen to just Blues. Is this option not in the music app in iOS 7 or am I over looking something?

Found the workaround... you are correct, this option was available in prior versions and now it is not.
In any Music app view scroll to the top to unveil the search box.
Search for your genre.
Search results will show all artists matching your query, and if you scroll above that there is a 'Shuffle All Songs' option.

How do I get my iPhone to play all albums by any given artist in consecutive album track order like it does on an iPod?

When I select an artist on my iPod Classic and then select "all albums," I can play multiple albums consecutively without losing the track order of each individual album. On my iPhone 4S, however, when I select an artist there's only the option to select "all songs," and it lists all the tracks alphabetically and plays them in that order, making it impossible to listen to one album followed by another. It isn't a problem if I select one album at a time, as the tracks then remain in their original order from the album, but it won't keep the proper orderings if I want to play all of the music by an artist and select "all songs." Is there some way to change it so that when I view all tracks by an artist I can see them and play them in their original intended track order, not in the alphabetical listing order?

Delete the file and re-download again.

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
Yours Bengt W

Cd/mp3 player was not playing all tunes burned to disk

Got my Mojo workin'.
That's a TDK "Mojo" CD-MP3 Digital Jukebox.
Sit back and relax while I tell of my Grand Journey of Exploration. (There is a question below too.)
I had made a some iTunes playlists of MP3s, and decided to burn them on CD-R disks for my portable player. I had them all sorted by Artist and Album. The burn process seemed to go well, but when I loaded the first disk into the Mojo, it seemed to scan the entire disk and count all the tunes. It finished counting after it found all 193 titles. However, when I tried to play them, it would only play the first 26 tunes or so. (Another disk I had burned at the same time (different playlist) gave similar unsatisfactory results, something like 19 out of 186 tunes.) I knew the Mojo was not a current model, and thought maybe there was some weird file incompatibility thing going on.
I popped the disk into my son's CD/MP3 player ("Koss" brand), and it managed to find 30 or 40 of them. A bit better, but not perfect.
I tried it in my DVD player, and it was able to play all 193 tunes. In fact, it loaded and started playing quicker than I had ever seen it do before. It usually thrashes and whirs for an annoyingly long time.
The odd thing was that the Koss was able to play all 76 tunes on another disk I had burned over a year ago, on my wife's Mac, with a version of iTunes for Mac System 9.2. Unfortunately, those files were gone from her Mac so I couldn't see what the iTunes setup was. I was thinking maybe the newer version of iTunes had a bug or something.
Then I inspected the old and new disks in the Finder and noticed that the new disk had a bunch of folders with the Artists' names, and each artist folder had folders within them with Album names, and the tunes were inside those folders.
The old disk (which worked fine in the Mojo player) just had the MP3 files and no folders whatsoever. I knew I was onto something, but I couldn't figure out how to burn a folder-less MP3 disk from iTunes, as opposed to doing it manually via the Finder.
I searched Apple.com > Support > Discussions > iTunes for Mac > Importing & Burning in iTunes for Mac yet again, this time using "folders" for the search term, and up popped several threads where people wanted files organized by folders on disks:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1464192
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1791538
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=781976
... which brought me to the document "iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD", at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60931
So, I removed the columns for "Artist" and "Album" names from the playlist, and burned it, et voila! it worked just fine in my Mojo, which plays all 193 tunes. (Too bad I didn't fix the ID3 tags beforehand.)
Now, for points:
I had the playlist sorted by Artist, and here are the first four titles (of 193)
Title ____________ Artist____________
Relative Ways ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Mistakes & Regrets ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Jubilation 20 Minute Loop
Queen of Pain Alkaline Trio
Muffin57 All Natural Lemon And Lime Flavors
... etc.
Then when I remove the "Artist" column so that it only shows the Titles, it resorts like this:
Title ____________
Blacken My Thumb
Buckler
After School Thunder
Futuristic Genitalia
Once In A Lifetime (Cul De Sac)
... etc.
This is not the same as it was, nor is it alphabetical by Title.
If I click on the Title column header of course, it is ordered alphabetically by title, like this:
Title ____________
(Do Not Feed The) Oyster
(Got My) Rock Pants On
3 Away
27
68
Adventures In Conversation
After School Thunder
Algorithm Of Desire
Alive and Amplified
... etc.
Other than dragging all 193 tunes, one at a time, in order manually, how can I keep the original play order by Artist, without creating folders on the burned CD?
There is talk of "Copy to Play Order" in the iTunes Help/Support files...
To use this command, Control-click one of the songs in the playlist,
and choose "Copy to Play Order" from the shortcut menu. Tip: These
steps also apply to a playlist you have reordered directly (by clicking
on one of the column headers like Artist or Album).
... but I don't see that option when I Control-click anything. The bottom menuitem in the popup menu is "Clear". Same results with Right-clicking.
300 MHz "Blue & White" G3 Mac OS X (10.4.7) iTunes 6.0.5

Hmm. I see that the spaces have been chopped out in part of my first post, and it appears that I cannot edit it.
For clarity's sake, these are the Artists' names, in the partial listing for Ordered by Artist example in my previous post:
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
20 Minute Loop
Alkaline Trio
All Natural Lemon And Lime Flavors

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