Playing multiple movies automatically

I'm an iMovie/ iDVD neophyte, and I can't - for the life of me - figure out how to have the DVD automatically play the 4 iMovies I've imported to iDVD all in a row without first returning to the main menu. There's got to be a way to do this...HELP!

There's got to be a way to do this
Not necessarily! See my workaround in your other post....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=593132&tstart=0

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How can I play multiple movies on quicktime like a list format

ok one more time How can I play multiple movies on quicktime. When i click on open file it will only let me choose one movie to play.For example When ever I used windows media player I could drag my mouse over numerous files and it would play them one after another like in a list format. Can anyone help with this?
Thank you

I would like an answer on this also. It gets to be a hassle to play multiple files when playing on the television.

How can I play multiple movies on quicktime like I can on windows medplayer

How can I play multiple movies on quicktime. When i click on open file it will only let me choose one movie to play.For example When ever I used windows media player I could drag my mouse over numerous files and it would play them one after another like in a list format. Can anyone help with this?
Thank you

Hi Brennan,
Only HDMI is going to support audio & video on the single cable. Which MacBook Air do you have? Here's a great article regarding this - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4241. Also keep in mind that only the current generation of MacBook Airs support this. The previous generation, also with MiniDisplay Port would support HDMI but you'd need to run a separate line from the headphone port over AUX for audio.
The first and second generation models, which have micro-DVI, do not support audio. Regarding the RCA cables, Apple offers adapters that allow you to go to VGA and that would probably be your best bet. I do not believe there's a MiniDisplay Port to RCA solution out there, you'd need to do multiple adapters and that's always a questionable performance solution.

Can you play multiple movies in keynote on the ipad2 at the same time?

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Automatically playing multiple movies one after another

I want to put in my DVD and see a menu of 6 separate movie files (ie, I do NOT want to auto play the first movie).
But when I do click play on the first movie, I want it to automatically go to the 2nd movie and play that, then the 3rd, etc.
Is this possible?

Hi cornfellow
Welcome to apple discussions. If you happen to be working with chapter markers in either FCP or iMovie (version 6 for example) then iDvd has the ability to generate a play all button. But short of this, there is no way I'm aware of within iDVD alone to link different videos together like there is in DVDSP or Roxio Toast. I believe this has been covered a number of times on apple discussions / forums. For example:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1381250
iDvd does not have a play all check box like Toast does unfortunately (ie, see bottom left corner of image below). As already mentioned above, Toast is likely your best and most affordable option here. But if you have the time and extra money, then I highly recommend learning to use DVDSP also.
click here
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Can't play multiple movies in one window

I must be doing something wrong. I wanted to watch a series of video clips (all .mov) in quicktime, but not in 10 different windows. Isn't there a way to highlight 10 clips, and then "play all" and have them open up in one window? For some reason, every time I attempt this, I get 10 quicktime players opening up! I'd just like one at a time, and the ability to skip to through the movies like I would do in iTunes with music. I seem to remember doing this before, but now can't remember how. Any ideas?

The steps are correct but you've left out the one that adjusts the 2 through 9 movies position as compared to the others.
The first video would hold a position of 0,0 (upper left). When you add the second video you need to adjust its "offset" to position it next to but not overlapping the first. Since your videos are 100X75 you would set the offset of the second track too 100,0 (100 pixels to the right of the original and 0 pixels different in height). The third would be 200,0 offset.
On the second row your first file would be 0,75 (75 pixels below the upper video). The second file on the second row would be offset 100,75 and the third would be 200,75.
The third row would be 0,150 followed by 100,150 and 200,150.
You could add a slight "border" between each video and give it a color by using the bgcolor="your color" (standard html color codes) and adding that space by adjusting the offset plus your border width in pixels. Hollywood Squares style of video.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/03war/ one of my older files that uses multiple track video playback of a QuickTime file. The "TV" set is a track and the video that plays "inside" it is another. The still image movies are also separate tracks and QuickTime .mov files can hold up to 99 tracks.

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I can get each button to play the corresponding movie. After the movie plays, however, I would like the movie to automaticaly revert to the home state.
In this way, the user could randomly click around on the image, triggering various movies when the appropriate buttons are hit. I have seen this done many times- I remember an an image of a hanunted house, for example. When the user clicked on a window, it would open and a ghost would look out. Without having to then click a home button, a further click on the door of the house would cause the door to open, and a mummy to lean out. I'm trying to avodi having to repeatedly hit a "home" button before additional button hits could trigger additional movie clips.
I should probably mention that I've had to insert a stop command at the end of each movie clip, otherwise all the animations play sequentially, rather than one at a time, when a button is clicked. How do I tell Flash to procede from this stop command, at the end of each movie, back to home, so that further buttons can be pushed?
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change the .FLV movie (and autostart) when the user clicks a button
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I'm not sure what your objective is with this question.
Unless this is some sort of homework assignment, I can't see any
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matter a great deal. You can load in any number of files, flv or
otherwise, into an embedded Flash movie. You can then play these
files on demand using your own custom controls or an flv player
skin.
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9. Have a look at the information on the External API in the online
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Hello Forum members,
I am a total new comer in terms of flash and action script,
self-educated and Adobe forum and internet educated. I can now
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and even mute sound in a movie clip (not video). I am currently
using Flash 8, and waiting for CS3 (downloaded a trial, and like it
better than Flash 8).
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copy the timelines from the scenes, and add those frames to
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after the other in the main timeline. Or...
Keep Scene 1 and at the end of scene 1,
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or attach the final movie clip (mc_scene3).
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etc.
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Hello Again - I guess there is much that I do not understand.
I followed the tip above - or so I thought.
I have "buttons" on my movie clips that play the clip when
clicked.
I have placed stop actions in frame 1 of each movie clip.
I tried placing mc_scene2 and mc_scene3 on their own layer
in the timeline,
and put the code above in my actions layer (Scene 1).
it seems that nothing really works - the _visible property
seems not to work,
etc - I must be doing something wrong. What layer should the
two mc's be
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Eholz1

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I'm sure this question has come up before, but couldn't find it.
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You're on the right path but a little confused.
You adjust a video track location by using the offset. Default location is 0,0 (upper left corner). You may need your calculator to do the math.
Another concept that escapes new users of QT Pro is negative values. You can use a negative value (say -320, 0) to position a track 320 pixels from the original upper left corner. This will put two 320X240 movies in a side by side 640X240 player window.
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Excuse the probably simple question but I'm just starting off with Flash.
I have imported a few video trailers directly into flash and saved them as movie clips.
I want to be able to insert these movie clips onto the main timeline and play them one after the other, repeating once they have all played.
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Sorry for what is probably a simple thing to ask.
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