DVD Menu Text Will Not Display

AAProds wrote on 9/16/2023, 2:54 AM

Gday all,

I'm making a DVD (shock horror you old dinosaur!). The standard templates have a box at the top of the screen for putting, I assume, a title for the DVD. For the life of me, I cannot get the text to show up.

The text with the button shows up fine.

I've tried a couple of templates and they are all the same: no text.

Any ideas from you DVD gurus?

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CubeAce wrote on 9/16/2023, 7:44 AM

@AAProds

Hi Al.

I don't have MMS 2024 but it seems to be working fine in MEP 2022.

Or have I got what you wanted wrong?

Ray.

AAProds wrote on 9/16/2023, 9:17 AM

@CubeAce

Ray, thanks for trying. I think your red-bordered text box was the one associated with the button?

The one that won't show text for me is the text box (with no button) at the top of the screen. Try with the default 4:3 or 16:9 template. There will be two text boxes; one under the button, and the problem box on it's own at the top of the screen.

CubeAce wrote on 9/16/2023, 9:42 AM

@AAProds

Hi Al.

I see what you mean even if I don't understand what you are seeing or what its significance is.

I can confirm your result.

Ray.

AAProds wrote on 9/16/2023, 9:56 AM

@CubeAce

Ray,

It's the top, black (empty) box. Double-click it to open up the editor and you'll see there should be text in the "Menu text" field: the name of the movie. But the text doesn't show on the screen in the box itself.

browj2 wrote on 9/16/2023, 10:08 AM

@AAProds @CubeAce

Hi,

Very strange. That box should be the project name by default that you can change. With only one Movie, it's blank even though there is text there.

Add a second movie and try the Burn screen again and the title will show now up.

EDIT: Found the solution, I think. Select that blank box, click on Edit under Design button and the text should show up.

John CB

AAProds wrote on 9/16/2023, 10:25 AM

@browj2 @CubeAce

Add a second movie and try the Burn screen again and the title will show now up.

Confirmed. Well spotted.

Delete the second movie, go back to the Burn screen and you can watch the text disappear.

Select that blank box, click on Edit under Design button and the text should show up.

That didn't work for me.

Another bug to add to my list.

CubeAce wrote on 9/16/2023, 12:30 PM

@AAProds

Hi Al.

You have to press OK before you will see the text with @browj2 's solution.

Ray.

AAProds wrote on 9/16/2023, 6:45 PM

@CubeAce

You have to press OK before you will see the text with @browj2 's solution.

Ray, yes, obviously that's the only way to close the design button editing screen. But it doesn't work unless you change the text.

CubeAce wrote on 9/16/2023, 9:46 PM

@AAProds

Did you try changing the text then changing it back?

Either I'm not getting what you you want to do or I'm adjusting the wrong part. I don't appear to be having problems. I don't need to change the text or do you mean any change to the text? I've been playing with the transparency. Changing the frame used from the video in the button etc. But even when I haven't saved the project and opened the program again later and loaded this, it has worked following John's suggestion.

Ray.

AAProds wrote on 9/17/2023, 12:35 AM

@CubeAce

Ray, here you go.

CubeAce wrote on 9/17/2023, 5:12 AM

@AAProds

Hi Al.

Perhaps they feel it's surplus to requirements when there is only one video on the DVD.

We don't know what Magix has had in the way of requests and maybe many users asked that the title not be repeated for single video movies. What's the saying? You can't please all the people all the time.

It seems an easy fix though.

Ray.