#Dvd studio pro story tutorial movie#

The Play Movie button will start at the beginning of the track and play through to the very end of the video and then return you to the main menu. I have renamed the button 'Play Movie' and targeted the button to the video track.Р”В«oth buttons have been renamed. Selecting the button in the Canvas opens the button in the Inspector. Option drag the first button to create a new second button. We now need a new button that will play movie. As you can see below, I have renamed each of my menus.Р”Р„fter creating your Chapter Index menu the audio and video tracks will now show up in the DVD SP timeline, showing the Chapter markers.Р”В«ack at the Main menu I have changed the name of the button to 'Chapter Menu'. If the Canvas window does not switch to the new Chapter Index menu automatically, select the new menu from the menu drop-down window. In this case I have more than six chapters so there is also a 'Next' button for navigating to the additional Chapter Index menu(s). There will also be a 'Main' button for returning to the Main menu. Upon selection DVD SP will create the Menu with buttons that will link to each of the chapters. You do not have to keep the background of the Chapter Index menu, you can replace it with a still or motion video.Р”Р‡or my Chapter menu I have selected Templates > Apple > Leader Index. If you have more than six chapters in your video, DVD SP will create an additional Index menu for the additional chapters and create a 'Next' button to link to the additional menu(s). Most of the stock Index templates come with six buttons. This new menu will display a chapter button for each chapter. You will then be prompted to 'choose Template or Layout Style' and you will want to select an 'Index' template. Now that there is a button in place in the menu, drag the video track (the audio track will come along for the ride) from the Asset window down onto the button and select 'Create Chapter Index make connection' from the drop palette. In the Palette window I have selected a button from Shapes > Apple > Buttons and dragged it into the Canvas window choosing 'Create Button' from the drop palette. Because I'm not using a template I will need to first create a button in the Canvas. If you use a stock template you will have plenty of buttons on screen. In order to create a Chapter Index you must have a button in the Canvas to apply the 'Create Chapter Index' to.

In this case, rather than use a stock template I have applied a still image (Taxis) to the Canvas and set it as my background (Set Background). With your assets in place you'll need to select a template for your DVD menu. When the export has been completed drag the audio and video exports into the Assets tab in DVD SP, shown below. Once you have finished your FCP movie with Chapters markers in place, you can export to Compressor or as a QT (not with Conversion) self contained movie. The only limitation is that you can only use chapters to build stories from a single video track.Р”В«efore we start in with Stories, lets go over the basics of setting up a 'Play All' and 'Chapter Index' DVD project. All you need to create Stories is a video track with chapter markers, you do not need to create or use a Chapter Index. You can do this chapter by chapter or you can group any number of chapters, in any order, into a single Story. When we create 'Stories' in DVD SP, each chapter is treated as a self contained chapter, enabling us to set an End Jump at the end (of each story), so that when the chapter (story) has finished playing we will be returned to the Stories menu. 'But I want to be able to play one chapter and then have it return to the Chapter index menu so I can choose another chapter to play.' DVD SP does provide a means to achieve this. Upon completion you are returned to the main menu (not Chapter index menu). This process continues until all of the remaining chapters have been played out. When selecting a Chapter to view from the Chapter index menu, after that chapter has finished playing, the next chapter begins to play automatically. However, there is one issue which seems to be an inconvenience. After burning a DVD everything works as advertised.

You have created your masterpiece in FCP with Chapter markers, encoded the video and in DVD SP created your DVD menu with a 'Play All' button and a 'Chapter Index' menu button.