Urgent: DVDSP help: Play All Button

[brinks]

So I've been handed a project that the previous editor was fired from. I was given a DVDSP project with 17 separate tracks and about 9 menus. I've worked for this company before on this same project the year before, So I know what should have been done. Long story short they fired the guy that outbid me on it this year and brought me in to fix his mistakes with a 1 day turn around time.

So for the question: Is there any way I can make a simple play all button for the 17 separate video tracks without scripts or taking everything back into FCP and making it one video track and building different stories for the individual buttons. Everything works except the play all button. Last year I did everything with one video track and created the stories. I just don't have the time to do that again.
Thanks!!!!

 

[Reflex Films]

set up a new track,

call it play all- on the menu you want it to appear on
Drag the 17 separate tracks into the track editor for this "play all track" track

drop in chapter markers into the same timeline if you want them

double check your end jump points so the menus all flow as you intended

you are done!

 

[BFever]

set up a new track,

call it play all- on the menu you want it to appear on
Drag the 17 separate tracks into the track editor for this "play all track" track

drop in chapter markers into the same timeline if you want them

double check your end jump points so the menus all flow as you intended

you are done!

yeah, this is what I've learned to do too, space on the DVD permitting, it works!

 

[VGurcu]

you are done!

He is done only if all the 17 clips have been compressed with the same bit rate, as DVDSpro doesnt allow you to mix different bitrate assets on the same timeline.
Only solution is to write a script.(not a story) It is not complicated, you just have to play with the commands in the script.

 

[David Saraceno]

Learn the capabilities of using "stories" in DVD SP.

How To Make A Play All Button in DVD SP

 

[brinks]

Thanks guys! I had to go the script route. That was the only feasible way in the amount of time I had with the amount of space left on the DVD. That was quite the challenge. I think I'm going to be spending a little more time learning scripts for sure.