Slideshow before menu

Hi everyone, I have a question- I want to put a slideshow before the menu and I want no one to skip it. My slideshow is a single picture with some restriction infomation. I set it to 6 seconds. How can I disable the buttons "next chapter" and "previous chapter", so people could not skip the information in the slideshow?

Select the slideshow in the project panel. In the properties panel, by "Operations," click on "Set." Set it to "none."
Some users have had trouble getting this to work. I don't recall what the issues were.

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Button appears a second before menu

Has anyone experienced this problem......
I have three videos on a dvd, so three buttons on the menu page. Once first video plays and fades out, I have it set to go to menu page - 2nd button. That is all fine except that you see the button pop up over the black a second before we see menu page. Same thing happens when going to third button. Does anyone have a clue? The buttons are just a shape chosen in DVD Studio Pro. Thanks for any help on this matter.

By the way it only does this on dvd player with tv, not when played on computer.

Intro clip plays before menu starts, but has a few frames of black. I need it to be seemless, please help!?!?

Hello,
So Im in Encore 6. I have a timeline with video and audio selected with first play, so it plays as an intro before the main menu.
The intro clip connects to the menu, however there are a few black frames during the transition to the main menu and I need this to be seamless.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You won't know until you play from a disk whether it is seamless or not. The Encore preview is not reliable.

Possible to have an intro video play before menu?

This may be a DVD Studio Pro task, but am wondering if it's possible, in iDVD, to have a short (5 sec) video clip play first thing, before the menu appears.
Thanks in advance!

This may be a DVD Studio Pro task, but am wondering
if it's possible, in iDVD, to have a short (5 sec)
video clip play first thing, before the menu
appears.
Thanks in advance!
No need for DVD SP - you can easily do it in iDVD 6.
In the map view, the well on the left is the autostart well for content that will play before a menu shows. Just drop your short video in that well.
F Shippey

Short video before menu

I'm putting together a video with a client. He wants to have a short segment of the video play immediately as the DVD starts right before the menu, probably less than 20 seconds. I could only figure how to have video playing on the menu screen not before. I'm sure this is possible I just can't figure out how...
Any help?

You can make the intro as a trck and make it first play, but I usually prefer to build the intro onto the front of the main menu. This way I can have seamless audio and video with no pause when it resolves to the main menu. Set the loop point on the menu to delay the appearance of the buttons until the background resolves.
Even slicker is to make two versions of your menu, one with intro and one without. You can make custom audio for the one without so this can loop cleanly, and the intro can still have continuous audio through the first play through of the Intro_main menu.
Hope this makes sense...
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Video before Menu skips

Hey guys,
I'm trying to finish a DVD in Studio Pro 3. I've more or less got the hang of the program.
When the DVD starts, I want to have a quick 5 second graphic of my company logo fade in and fade out, then go to the menu. Easy enough.
But, for some reason, the intro video stutters and skips a few times. I've tried re-exporting the clip from FCP and have made an entirely new clip in FCP and exported it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The video clip has a jerky motion to it no matter what. I've tried everything I can think of to overt this but nothing seems to do the trick. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
pat

Patrick
FCP will not set the Max Rate, what you should do is export the movie as self contained and then use Compressor (sending it from FCP to Compressor is another option, but self contained seems to work better andd quicker.)
The 2 hour version may (not sure if it does, do not have settings) drop the Max Rate but it would drop thee average rate.
What you should do is check the settings by double clicking the preset in the preset window.
What you can do is also "make your own".
Take a look at this movie here
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/qc.php
to see how you can make your own settings - note the AC3 settings in particular for items that you should check/uncheck.
The m2v section (which is actually first) just shows how the controls work in general and do not mean they have to be your actual settings.

Como publicar los slideshows por menu

tengo una pagina web la cual tiene un portafolio con varias subpaginas, estas a su vez tienen diferentes diapositivas cada una. cuando le doy preview puedo ir al portafolio y dar un click en la subpagina que quiero ver y me muestra las diapositivas correspondientes pero cuando la publico y quiero hacer lo mismo me muestra todas las diapositivas. Como puedo evitar esto?

Hi
If you can share the site url, it would be helpful to get the idea of the issue that you are facing.
As I understand , the slideshow open automatically when you go to sub pages , this can be due to the settings you have used for autoplay, please uncheck that and then try.
If I am missing something , please let me know.
Thanks,
Sanjit

Video intro before menu

Does anybody know how I can create a video intro that plays first thing when a DVD is inserted into the player and then leads to the first menu on the disc?
In other words, this video would come on as soon as the DVD starts playing, then possibly pause on its last frame, and that frame would become the background of the first menu. Then the buttons and links would appear when the video ends and the menu begins.
Any idea how I can create this? And possibly make the music be continuous between the video and the menu?
Thanks,
Fernanda.

Few approaches
1.) First set first play for the disc to either the track you want or the menu
2.) If a track is first play (better form) then have the last frame be the background of the menu you are going to and set the jump from the track to the menu
or
3.) http://dvdstepbystep.com/motion.php and http://dvdstepbystep.com/useelements.php (still a good idea to have the first play be a short track even of a couple of seconds of black then set end jump to the menu)

Needing help making a Slideshow in Premiere 7

Back in 2008 several contributors on this forum helped me make a slideshow using Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4, which I am forever grateful for. It was a long process as I had never made a slideshow before, but after much labor I created a wonderful slideshow of my Alaska photos with music. After a lot of reading I decided to upgrade to Elements and Premiere 7, which I was able to actually do for free. I purchased the Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 7 as I was told this would be a great resource to help me out. Well, here I am two years later trying to make a slideshow again and still as confused as ever. I am trying to make the slideshow in Adobe Premiere Elements, as I was told last time it was easier to do it that way if I wanted to add music to it. I am just getting started and am already confused.
My first question is: Am I best off making the slide show in Premiere Elements rather than Photoshop Elements? I want to add music to it.
I have tried using both the book that came with the program and the Muvipix book and I am lost on step one.
In the Adobe manual it says to deselect the Show Video and Show Audio buttons. Why do I need to deselect these?
In the Muvipix book it tells me to select a number of clips amd then either right-click on them or click on the ">>" button to access the "Create Slideshow" too. I can't find the ">>" button. How do I access the the "Create Slideshow" feature?
I have a question about the stills that show up in the panel. Many actual photos appear in this panel. However, there are also a large group of boxes with two swirling arrows, one green and one red. Why are they there rather than actual photos? I have tried double clicking on a few and they all bring up the same photo folder from "my pictures." I am confused.
Sorry if my questions seem very basic, but this is not what I do for a living. It is a once every couple of year hobby. Perhaps if I ever get it downpat I will do it more often.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I am sure I will need a little more handholding. I have been looking for the last two years for a class on this program. I know that is what I need. However, none have been available in my area.

Thanks for the response Steve. I am hoping it will be easier this time around.
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These photos were still on the harddrive. I checked in Photoshop Elements and they needed to get reconnected. Here is what I think happened. When I download my photos, they go into MY PICTURES. When I move them from where they automatically get placed by the program, into a folder of my choice, they seem to get "unconnected". I was able to reconnect them and now they appear in Premiere Elements. Thanks for the tip which actually led me to a solution.
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I did read about Show Docking Headers and did follow that instruction. That was the first thing I did, actually. However, when I am in Premiere ELements, I still don't see where I find the Create Slideshow tool that you mention on p. 59. I am a bit confused with this option. I can move the photos I want from the panel to the Timeline, but I am confused as to where the "Create Slideshow Tool" is located.
Thanks again for your help.I know I will get this done, just very slowly.

IPhoto will not play iTunes music in slideshow

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Assuming this is for iPhoto on your Mac:
Launch iTunes use the File -> Library -> Organize Library -> Reorganize Library menu option. Then quit and relaunch iPhoto.
Credit to user keysandfood who found this solution.
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I've done photo slideshows before, but tried this one in iPhoto and now can't get to a DVD. Should I use iDVD or iMovie? Thanks!

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