How to insert title screens between sections?

Arthur-LW wrote on 7/6/2013, 6:29 AM

Greetings.
Movie Edit Pro MX is version 18 and you are patched to the latest version 11.0.6.4 (UDC2).

I have a video compilation with several parts (scenes) that I would like to break up (separate) with blank (black) frames that have intros for each section giving each a descriptive title.  How do I insert a blank field between each scene and edit it?


Also I would like to have each separate scene listed in the main menu but have the option to "Play all" or just select between the scenes from the main menu when the DVD first loads (just like movie DVDs allow you to do). 

Is this possible and if so, how does one go about it?  This is well beyond my level of expertise... 

Arthur

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yvon-robert wrote on 7/6/2013, 9:52 AM

Hi,

A standrd DVD has main menu and submenu. Two action from main menu are possible : 1) Play the entire movie that is normal action or go to Submenu. The submenu can plaw different scene and most of the contains thunbnail picture or live miniature movie. This is the last step to produce DVD and use chapter that you define in your movie.

Check on WEB video training or buy the DVD training for MVP.

Regards,

YR

Arthur-LW wrote on 7/6/2013, 10:04 AM

A standrd DVD has main menu and submenu. Two action from main menu are possible...

No kidding?

Whoda thunked it.

Anybody have anything I can actually use?  Links even?

johnebaker wrote on 7/6/2013, 4:36 PM

Hi

. . . .No kidding?  Whoda thunked it. . . . .

The people who designed the standard DVD structure

Look up Chapters in the installed pdf manual - under Help in the program.  This should explain the procedure.

Re the black gaps with title - create a space between the clips where you want the title and use one of the titles available in MEP on the Title tab in the space - again look up Titles in the manual.

HTH

John

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Arthur-LW wrote on 7/6/2013, 4:45 PM

Hi

. . . .No kidding?  Whoda thunked it. . . . .

The people who designed the standard DVD structure

Look up Chapters in the installed pdf manual - under Help in the program.  This should explain the procedure.

Re the black gaps with title - create a space between the clips where you want the title and use one of the titles available in MEP on the Title tab in the space - again look up Titles in the manual.

HTH

John

I was being sarcastic, John.  If I didn't know about DVD structure, what would I be doing trying to find out how to create it in Magix?  You at least pointed me somewhere..... 

I'll report back when I've researched your suggestions.  Thanks for responding.

Arthur

johnebaker wrote on 7/7/2013, 2:48 AM

Hi

. . . . I was being sarcastic, John.  . . .

I thouht you were hence the   

On a more sreious note

See this post (if you have not already done so) for the DVD structure.

As an example, here is an image showing titles in between some images (video etc are the same) - title 1 is where MEP normally places it - on track 3.  Title 2 has been moved to fill the gap between the images.

 

HTH

John

 

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PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

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Arthur-LW wrote on 7/7/2013, 6:01 AM

Hi

. . . . I was being sarcastic, John.  . . .

I thouht you were hence the   

On a more sreious note

See this post (if you have not already done so) for the DVD structure.

As an example, here is an image showing titles in between some images (video etc are the same) - title 1 is where MEP normally places it - on track 3.  Title 2 has been moved to fill the gap between the images.

 

HTH

John

 

You're always there, John.  May it always go well for you in life. 

 

 

I'll look into this latest post of yours in the next day or two.  Haven't gotten to the DVD structure (Chapters) as yet.  That's a whole 'nother ball of wax.  There is no such thing as a "DVD Structure" straight tutorial in the Help file that says directly how to do it like in the movies.  LOL  As far as I can see, in the burning section there is a choice of jumping to menu or contunuous play, but nothing I found gives one the choice of "Play Movie" or "Scene Selection" (plus Extras, etc.).  Instead yoou have to cobble together all sorts of stuff in different areas and decipher all the terms and piece them all together.  That's my next project after these titles between scenes.

 

I did find the black screen thingys with text.  Met my share of problems there, but eventually got it done.  You gotta constantly expand and contract the timeline to get at the black frames to work on them, i.e fade them in, shorten them (I think the default is five seconds but I prefer about two or three).

Somehow, if I faded out the previous scene, then moved the black frame to join it, added a fade in to the black part, somehow the previous scene loses its fade out.  You gotta do things in a certain order (and hold your mouth just right when you click the mouse)      or things go astray.

I guess now if I set markers in front of all the title frames I will get them to show up on the menu as choices, but haven't tried that as yet...  Will keep you posted. 

yvon-robert wrote on 7/7/2013, 9:33 AM

Hi,

Begin to read the manual and go to www.videomaker.com for a registration to webinar. May be you have to learn before to use a software and not decide how the software work. See the screen capture from webinar :

Remark you can try a less complex main menu and sub menu but chapter notion is the base. This is the standard for all video software or commercial video. Magix automate this process.

Regards,

YR

 

Arthur-LW wrote on 7/7/2013, 11:08 AM

Hi

. . . . I was being sarcastic, John.  . . .

I thouht you were hence the   

On a more sreious note

See this post (if you have not already done so) for the DVD structure.

As an example, here is an image showing titles in between some images (video etc are the same) - title 1 is where MEP normally places it - on track 3.  Title 2 has been moved to fill the gap between the images.

 

HTH

John

 

Thanks for the link, John.  That hasn't been a problem, but I appreciate the thought.  Ever since Magix created my first BD coaster I've been using it to just generate images onto the hard drive and then letting Nero burn the disc.  I assume Nero does the finalizing of the plastic because they play flawlessly in any player ever made  (at least the ones that run on electricity  LOL)  

Speaking of making DVDs though, you may remember one of my early posts in which I talked about Magix not being able to create an animated menu that would work on any player (like the Hollywood dudes can easily and flawlessly do).  On one player it showed the menu graphic but no movement, on another player it played the sound with a black screen.  This was a serious disappointment, and I'm not talking about old players now, but recently purchased Blu-ray models.  Sad.  Anyway, I know I'm never going to make truly factory-style DVDs with Magix, unless they fix this bug.  But I'd be happy to just be able to have an option to view individual scenes with no animation of menu, which I can live with.

Speaking of scenes, I would need to be able to define my scenes the way they do it in Hollywood, with some 20 individual scenes for an entire movie as decided by the director or film editor.  Magix can do the scene splitting, but it looks like it breaks up something whenever things go to black, or some other arcane system.  I would need something more...

 

Back to your post here:  I don't exactly understand the graphic, specifically how the titles got the purple color and how they got placed in a lower track.  I can assume that the color is an option in one of the fancier inserts other than the default, (which worked fine for me).  I found it worked best  if I just dragged the insert from up above into the place where I had the red vertical play spot indicator (I forget its real name) and into the main track.

Then came the problems associated with something so narrow in the timeline (already dealt with in a previous post). 

 

Updates coming later. 

 

Arthur-LW wrote on 7/7/2013, 3:36 PM

Hi,

Begin to read the manual and go to www.videomaker.com for a registration to webinar. May be you have to learn before to use a software and not decide how the software work. See the screen capture from webinar :

Remark you can try a less complex main menu and sub menu but chapter notion is the base. This is the standard for all video software or commercial video. Magix automate this process.

Regards,

YR

 

Begin to read the manual indeed.  LOL   You must be new.  


I have mentioned in at least one other post of mine that I went out and invested in a huge loose-leaf binder and printed out every page of the pdf - about a ream's worth, not to mention three sets of dividers needed to organize it all.  I found it was easier to follow along in written form than flip between computer screens.  So, it's not like I expect all my knowledge to be spoon fed to me.  I'm out here doing my part by trying to learn all I can on my own.  But if even you old timers can't explain the process, imagine how a greenhorn suffers.  Try to remember how mind boggling it was for you when you first started.  That's where I am now.

I do appreciate the graphic, though.  It never hurts to organize one's thoughts as in that diagram.  Trouble is since the site you cite hasn't the explanation I'm looking for either (or you would have supplied a link to the how-to), I'm still on my own basically, though I still have the Chapters suggestion from John to act on.

But at least you didn't tell me to "Google it," btw.   


I do have a problem with going to a third party to get answers, however.  It may sound old fashioned to some, but I think people should be in business to provide a needed service and render support after the sale, not just find new and inventive ways to part the sucker and his funds, and then boogie.


I have the hopes that this Magix outfit is in the former category, and as such I will continue to sing their praises when due, and be a burr under their saddle blanket when needed.  If I succeed in pointing out ways the software (or the manual for that matter) could be improved upon, and they take the input to heart, then in the end we all benefit.