Playing movies sequentially or "Play All" function in iDVD

I have several 5-minute movies that I'll be burning to DVD. It's easy enough to have a button for each movie on the main menu screen, but is there a way to add a button to play all the movies on after the other?
I realize I could copy each movie into one big iMovie and use chapter marks at the start of each "sub-movie", but that's a lot of copying & pasting and opening & closing (I'm using iMovie 5). So if there's an easier way to do it in iDVD, then I'd prefer to take that route
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Hi desertcanine:
I think the iMovie route you mentioned may be the way to go...read this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1257734&#1257734
Sue

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Is there a 'play all' function?

i have four episodes on idvd, they all play fine, after each episode it then returns to the menu i then have to play the next episode manually, is there a way so that i could add a 'play all episodes' function so that they automatically play back to back? thanks

Hi
*Play All Button*
1. There are NO - Play All - button in any version of iDVD
2. It can be faked in several ways
• Easies 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.
• 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 - Never tested though.
• Using another program to do this eg. Roxio Toast™ where there ia a Play All button option.
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.
Yours Bengt W

Best way for play all function

i am making a dvd with 30+ three minute clips. they will be split up into different catagories. so each menu will have about 4-5 clips with seperate play buttons, and their end jump target will be the corresponding menu. i want to make a play all button without laying all clips on another track and setting that target. do i have use a script to do this, or is there another way to go about it.
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There are two basic approaches to creating a play all situation - the first uses stories and the second uses scripts. If you use stories then there are two approaches to that - first off, you can make a story for each individual clip so that you can play just that one clip and then go back to the menu. If you do this then the play all will be a button that points to the actual track. The markers in the track must not have jumps - the story containers will need an end jump and menu call setting though.
The second method using stories is to place end jumps on the individual markers to go back to the right menu. You can then add a single story and place ALL markers in that. This single story becomes your 'play all'. If you do put end jumps on the markers then you limit the possibilities for navigation, unless you then set the end jump to go to a script to evaluate where to go on from there.
In both cases all of the clips are in a single track. You can mix and match chapters in stories as you wish, placing groups of markers together in a story so that only that group plays through... think of a story as a play list and you will get the idea - add the markers that you want to play through, and away you go.
If you want to set this up with scripts then there are several possibilities. However, unless you have all of the clips as separate tracks then there really is no need to script it at all - stories should give you all that you need. You might use a script or two to get the navigation better, but with careful planning you won't even need this.

Play All track (with Story functions) not working

I'm using a single track as my Play All function for a dvd of several short films and using Story functions to have the individual films play from their own menus.
But the Play All track won't play all the way through though it does if I press >| (next chapter) button on my remote control. Each film plays fine from its own menu as an individual track though.

Play All Story would include all markers, a story to just play a section would include the marker for just the one section. You can put the markers in any order you like and can duplicate the markers. If you drop all the markers in the next button will work until the last marker in the story, then there will be no other marker left (but you can put a "fake" marker in the track to jump to for the last real marker)
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php

How do I get a "PLAY ALL" button on the main screen for iDVD?

I spent a lot of time creating a DVD with pictures and music, and the main screen when I play the DVD shows all of the different scenes, but when I click on one of the scenes, it won't continue to the next one. I have to individually plan every scene in order to watch the whole DVD, rather than just clicking on the first scene and letting it play through. How do I make it so that I can either create another button that will play the whole DVD through or make it so that it continues to the next scene after the previous one is finished??

You can't create a 'play all' button with iDVD. All your separate scenes are separate movies as far as iDVD is concerned. You need to assemble all you separate scenes into one movie in iMovie and then insert chapter markers if you want separate entry points.
Apple's pro DVDSP does let you link movies to obtain a play all function.

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I have 4 short movies that I want to put on one DVD. Three of them were created as slideshows in iPhoto, and then exported to iDVD. The fourth is an iMovie file I imported. All four movies show up in the menu, and each of them plays nicely when I select it and preview it.
What I'd like to do though, is be able to "play all" the movies, one right after the other, without going back to the menu in between. Is this possible?

Hi M
No there are no Play it all function in iDVD. In DVD Studio pro this is said to be possibly. But cost
and complexity might be scarry.
If movies are small - one might fake it by adding a fifth movie that contains all four in one set. Then
name this as "Play all". But this works only if there are space enough and if you can re-do Your
SlideShows in iMovie as movie segments.
Yours Bengt W

Creating chapters and play all

hi, i have a concert film. i recorded all the footage in by song, so i have 12 5+ minute files. I want to make a play all function, so the dvd will just play each song right after the ones before it. basically, how do i make each song a chapter and play all capabilities. i already made it so each song is its own film, but once the song ends, it retunrs to the menu....

In iMovie or iDVD, you can edit the songs one after the other in the same timeline to create one movie. Drop that movie into iDVD and you will get a movie that plays the songs in sequence. Also, in iDVD, you can a chapter for each song to give viewers the options of going to each one
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Chapters and Play all - how do I get this to work with a one hour project?

Hi
I have a one hour project and at the moment I have it in one track with a Main Menu, Chapter menu and a bridge menu for the loop point.
I have 5 chapters and want 2 functions to happen in my DVD structure:-
1. the Play All function
2. and the Chapters to play each individual chapter and then go back to the Chapter menu when it;s finished.
As my project is now, the play all feature won't work, it is like it's the CHapter menu.
In the past I've had a track for the play all and then separate tracks for each chapter. Is there a way around this - do I have to do that fancy encoding (which I have no idea how to set up.
I have 5 chapters and would love some help to construct this as I don't think the 2 hours would fit on my single layer DVD and it would be a lot more exporting work.
Hope you can help.
Cheers
Margie

You may want to use scenarios in this situation.
click the "add a scenario" button, an add as many scenarios as you have chapters.
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You will see a list of chapter appear on the left of your timeline area.
Drag the chapter you want to play solo to the empty list on the right ("scenario markers").
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Then link you buton to that scenario and repeat for the other chapters.
hope that helps.
tee.

New iOS play all video is gone

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Well. If they're not there, they're not there.
But I bet your music files are still there!
Look in here, do you see music files?
C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
If so, just drag all those files from WIndows Explorer into the iTunes library window.
If your daughter had a lot of ratings, the ratings will be lost, but she'll have the music back.
Here is a better explanation by Buegie.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=359492&tstart=0

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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).
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I have couple movies on the Apple TV. But Each time, I have press play to next movie.
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Is this possible? Any trick to play all movies on Apple TV without keep press play to continue to next movie.
Anyone know about this?
Cheeers

Ge0ph wrote:
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