Menu does not appear when DVD is inserted into DVD player.

Marty-Juel wrote on 5/14/2020, 11:17 AM

Magix Move Edit Pro Premium, VER 18.0.1.209< Windows 10)

After I create my project, including the menu, I burn the project to a DVD. When I put the DVD in a DVD player, the menu does not show. It starts playing automatically with the first scene where I put the first chapter marker. The first scene is a movie templae and it does scroll properly and the audio does not work. If I put the DVD in a computer and bring up the file directory, there are three files shown: Project-name.avi; Project-name McTS; and Project-name MPG. If I click on the MPG file, it plays perfectly on the computer, however the menu does not appear at the beginnng.

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johnebaker wrote on 5/14/2020, 1:41 PM

@Marty-Juel

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Check that you did not turn off the menu items in the DVD menu creation dialog circled in the image below.

If you did not use the Burn dialog, how did you create the disc?

John EB
Forum Moderator

Marty-Juel wrote on 5/14/2020, 3:23 PM

After checking my DVDs again, I did notice that most of them did have the menu at the beginning. It took longer than I expected to load. One of them actually had the three files I mentioned, but the ones I had problems running had the foldeer VIDEO_TS. When the video started (at the beginning as I wanted) the audio wasn't synched with the video. I start the movie with a scrolling text and it started late and then ran fast. As I continnue, the audio and video acted this way, not in sync. Before I discovered the Burn feature you described, I thought I had to export the project. Could those settings be affecting the outcome now when I simply go to the Burn feature?

johnebaker wrote on 5/14/2020, 5:44 PM

@Marty-Juel

Apologies I missed this part of your first post:

. . . . DVD in a computer and bring up the file directory, there are three files shown: Project-name.avi; Project-name McTS; and Project-name MPG . . . .

This is not a valid DVD structure - a DVD has the following structure

a VIDEO_TS folder, this contains two or more VOB files which are the film and chapter menu(s) (if used) and the video.

an AUDIO_TS folder, if present, which should be empty.

You need to use the Burn feature in the program to create a valid DVD or Blu-Ray disc - for Blu_Ray the disc the folder structure is much more complicated than a DVD.

John EB

Marty-Juel wrote on 5/15/2020, 11:21 AM

I believe I have just about everything working, with one exception. The menu works and the DVD starts up properly. However, I had a problem with one of the sound tracks on playback. While I'm in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Premium, I found where the soundtrack was missing so I put it back in again. I adjusted the fade in/out and saved the project. Then I did a preview and it was perfect. So I went through the Burn procedure again, and put the DVD in my DVD player. It started out fine until I got the area where the audio track was inserted. It doesn't play in the DVD player, yet it does when I review it and preview it in MAGIC. I even tried saving the audio track as a new file and imported back into the assets through the Import feature, and put it in the program. I tried putting in different tracks; once using separate tracks for all audio clips and once putting the new track on a section already used by another track else in the move. I've really gone bonkers, having worked on this for about 4 hours this a.m. Any additional thoughts?

johnebaker wrote on 5/15/2020, 12:49 PM

@Marty-Juel

When you burned the project again you should have a dialog as shown below open

Did you select both check boxes and Encode all - if not then the changes you made may not have been made to the disc.

Tips:

If you do not do so already, use DVD-RW discs to burn to and tst in a DVD player once the movie is as you require then you can copy the DVD-RW disc to a write once DVD.

I also recommend DVD-R discs in preference to DVD+R they are more reliable in my experience.

HTH

John EB

Marty-Juel wrote on 5/15/2020, 4:21 PM

Thank you! This worked. I remember seeing that screen, but could not find any documentation that explained what it was about. I did what you suggested and the DVD is fine. I thought that by saving the project it would be ok. I didn't realize what the 'encode all' did.

johnebaker wrote on 5/16/2020, 5:17 AM

@Marty-Juel

Good news, thanks for letting us know.

John EB