Q about Subtitle Streams / Buttons on Video / Transitions

Hi all
I have a few queries regarding Subtitle Streams / Buttons on Video / Transitions.
I am currently authoring a DVD where a 4 Button Menu is to appear on a Track. What I need to know most is whether I can navigate to the 4 individual Buttons' assigned assets with a DVDSP in-built transition [ie Fade to Colour].
More detail follows:
The DVD is educational / and navigatable kind of close to a CD-Rom. The Track with the 4 Button Menu runs for approximately 1 min 3 secs. It can be divided into three main parts. Part 1 duration 0 sec to 15 sec shows video only, Part 2 duration 16 sec to 30 sec shows 2nd video only, Part 3 duration 31 sec to 1 min 3 sec shows 3rd video with 4 Button Menu [using Subtitle Stream 1]... Now, the full 1 min 3 sec track plays seamlessly with the 4 Button Menu Highlights becoming visible at duration 31 sec with their visibility lasting to the end of the clip. The End Condition of the clip is to Loop back to a Chapter Point at the beginning of Part 3 duration 31 sec. The 4th Button in the 4 Button Menu [in Part 3] when activated will Navigate back to a Chapter Point at the beginning of Part 2 duration 16 sec. Buttons 1, 2 and 3 in the 4 Button Menu when Activated Navigate to 3 different Assets whose End Condition is to Return to the Button that made each of them play, at the Chapter Point at the beginning of Part 3.
What I need is for each of the 4 Buttons in the 4 Button Menu when activated to Transition to [using a DVDSP Fade to Colour Transition] each Button's assigned Asset. Furthermore, I need each Asset to Transition back to the Main Track at Part 3 duration 31 sec using the same DVDSP Fade to Colour Transition.
IS THIS POSSIBLE without replacing the Assets that I have already in the Project???????
G5 DP 2GHz / OS X 10.4.2, 1 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.2) DVD SP 4.01

i'm encountering the exact same problem with buttons over video in dvd studio pro. despite of the fact that the simulation within dvd studio pro works flawlessly, after buidling the video_TS folder and opening it in the dvd-player application, you can't hide the subtitles anymore (you can set the subtitle-streams in the menu to whatever you like but the subtitles never disappear). the same problem exists if i burn or build and format a physical dvd.
help is really appreciated! thanks in advance for every hint!

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Here's a quick run down of my project:
the client has a video program which should play two different ways. the first button on my main menu should play the video program with no subtitle streams on. the second button on my main menu enables the same program to be played only now with subtitles stream 1 turned on. the subtitle stream is serving as buttons that appear over the video which jump to other submenus.
my problem is that the first button, no matter what i've tried, still displays the subtitles stream though i don't want it to. i have one track of the video with two stories, 1 for display without the subtitle track and the other to display with the subtitle track. the button for the 1st story is set with the "view" option unchecked for subtitle stream 1 while the second is set with the "view" box checked...yet it still displays both! i've checked my disc options and the subtitle track's "view" is unchecked...
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i'm encountering the exact same problem with buttons over video in dvd studio pro. despite of the fact that the simulation within dvd studio pro works flawlessly, after buidling the video_TS folder and opening it in the dvd-player application, you can't hide the subtitles anymore (you can set the subtitle-streams in the menu to whatever you like but the subtitles never disappear). the same problem exists if i burn or build and format a physical dvd.
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Changing subtitle stream during playback of Video track

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Can someone please help me out with changing the subtitle stream during playback of a video track? The subtitle button doesn't seem to cycle through the 4 languages we have on the track.
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hey nipponese (great name)
when you press the subtitle button, does it restrict you, or does it not go through all 4 subs, or maybe even, does it go through more than your original 4?
do you have a menu, or is it just the video, audio and subs?
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I have a video in a track in DVD SP 3. In S1 of the track I have, near the beginning, a Subtitle Clip about 2 secs. long with text which describes the scene. No problem. Near the end of the track I have another Subtitle Clip in S1 but this time, instead of showing text it shows a button graphic of two little arrows for Buttons Over Video (which when activated make the DVD go back or forward). The graphic is in the form of a standard tif Overlay file as used for Simple Overlays for a menu - a white background with the arrows in red with a black border, all as in the manual. The arrows have two Buttons created over them.
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I have moved the Subtitle Clip (the one showing the arrows) down to S2 in case it is not possible to have two Subtitle Clips in S1, but no change. Also, I have added a large blob in the middle of the Subclip Overlay file to see whether the Overlay file got displaced, out of the image area, but the blob appears in its correct position.
What can I do please?
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Selected/activated button overlay in Buttons over Video

I have six different buttons over video, with one overlay.
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When I select and activate a button the overlay goes from white to red, and the audio changes to the specified audio track. So far, so good. But, when I want to select another button, the red overlay disappears, and I see the selected buttons white overlay. This is of course "default", but I'd like the red overlay to stay, indicating that I'm still listening to that audio track, even if I'm choosing between another button.
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Thanks Trai - I'll try that approach.
After trying all sorts of combinations to get 'resume' working, all I can imagine is it's not properly implimented in DVDSP or it's not properly supported by players.
A button on a menu with a target or 'resume' should according to the DVDSP manuals return to the point the user was at in a track when the menu was launched (see quote below).
I've tested on 3 hardware players as well as a PC player and Apple's own DVD player. Only a sony DVD recorder resumed to the correct place in the video track. The only other possibility I can imagine is that the buttons over video are in some way causing the problem when resuming? I noticed when the sony did resume to the correct point the subtitle stream being used for the buttons over video was no longer visible (even though a prescript on the track was forcing them to show)
<quote from DVDSP3 and 4 manual>
About Resume
If you jump to a menu while watching a track, for example, by pressing the remote control’s Menu button, the DVD player remembers what track you were playing and how far you were into it. A mostly unknown feature of DVD players is that you can press the Menu button while in a menu to resume playing the track at the same place you jumped from. Creating a button on the menu and setting its Target to Resume provides the viewer with a more obvious way to resume playing the track.
</end quote>

Is it possible to connect audio to subtitle streams?

Hello-
I'm putting together a guitar instructional dvd and would like to have tuning screens that would allow users to tune their instruments to tones provided on the dvd. I'd like to have users be able to select the strings through using a icons that would be contained in subtitle streams and, ideally, the selection of that stream would trigger the appropriate audio file.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks...

That sounds to me as if you'd like to put a clickable object into a subtitle stream, in which case I believe the answer is no. You can put buttons over video and make use of the subtitle stream to do so, or you can think a little about ways to structure the section you are working on a little differently.
For example, if I go to a menu which has six buttons along the bottom, each of which corresponds to a different guitar string then I can change the audio by clicking on a button.
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Set System Stream Au(1(audio file info))
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Alternatively, use standard menus, make six identical versions and set a different audio stream into each. Now, set each button to go to the correct menu, which will look the same but sound different.
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I figured out the problem so I'll wrap up the thread in case someone else runs into this problem...
I was using dvdSP's ability to "offset" the overlay file in order to make my highlights match up perfectly. For some reason if the offset differs from one overlay to the next in the same subtitle stream, it causes apple dvd player to crash.
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subtile(BOV) 1 had an overlay file offset to 0x & -4y & subtitle(BOV)2, my second menu, had an overlay file offset to 3x & -1y.
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Hey Everybody,
I'm working on a DVD that has some fairly specific requirements, some of which are negotiable, others of which are not. It's set up kind of strangely because of the limitations of the source footage, I'll try to describe it:
There are two tracks. Track 1 is an edited version of the source footage. Track 2 contains two angles, a continuous wide shot and a continuous close up. I tried making one track with three angles, but since Track 1 doesn't precisely sync up with Track 2, that didn't work.
When I took over this project, it was decided that the best way to work around the limitations of the footage would be to space chapter markers every thirty seconds in each track, so that the user can go from, for instance, Chapter 4 Track 2 to Chapter 4 Track 1 by pressing the enter key on the remote. Cumbersome but acceptable.
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Hello,
I'm new to this forum, and glad to be here.
I'm going nuts. I'm trying to author a DVD with 3 angles in DSP4.
My first test of the DVD worked just fine before I added the buttons over video. I was able to switch angles successfully by hitting the angle button.
But because so many users are using universal remotes, and some dvd players do not have angle buttons, , my client is requiring angles to change on the fly by either pressing the enter button to cycle through them, or the directional button. Up being main angle, left, alternate A, and right alternate B. I went with the latter.
When I test the dvd in simulator, my buttons over video work fine. Also success when testing with Apple DVD player.
But here's the rub. . .
On set top players I am only able to make one change of angle per marker, and also I am unable to pause,fast forward, or review.
It seems that when the button highlight is ticked, all playback functions are disabled. (Only on set tops, the apple software DVD player will sill pause, and ff, etc)
Now when I test burn again with out button highlight, I am able to use playback functions.
Is there another way I can accomplish this with out buttons over video?
I know of DVDs that change angle with the enter button, but I hoping like h_ll that it's not something that's only available to Scenarist users. Of course, I'm a mac head.
Thanks in advance,
Desparately seeking solutions,
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Not so! Several titles use the enter button to change
angles, but I know that these were authored with
Scenarist.
Not so! If you can use the "Enter/Play" button on the remote to change angles, you are activating a button onscreen (or an invisible one) to perform that action -- you aren't changing angles directly with that remote button. The DVD spec is the DVD spec, regardless of which authoring app was used.
Through my research I found out that the BBC wrote a custom
program to insert new invisible buttons every two
seconds, but a least I have a solution, albeit a time
consuming one, and that's make a highlight marker
every two seconds and paste my auto-action buttons in
there....every two seconds....
but at least it works.
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Please dispense with the idea that there are "programs" on a DVD that might do things DVD Studio Pro won't let you do. The only thing on a DVD other than video is the occasional rudimentary script, but even scripts can't be executed while video is being played.
Contrary to the operation of HD-DVD and Blu-ray, standard DVD players have no real RAM (just on/off registers for variables) and no operating system to speak of. It's always playing video, whether it looks like an actual interactive app or not. DVD players don't run programs, they are simply able to show still images and accept input, there is no actual software being run.

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