Creating a play one or play all project, Stories in a nutshell, Creating the basic project – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual
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In most cases with multiple movies, you will want to create a menu where the viewer
can choose which movie to watch. You may even want to have a menu where the viewer
can choose to play a specific movie or to play all of them. See
for information on setting up this situation.
Creating a Play One or Play All Project
You may have a project with a track that contains several sections that a viewer either
might want to watch individually or all at once, one after the other, from the start to the
end.
It’s actually fairly easy to set this up using stories. Once it is set up, you can optionally
add additional functionality to polish the project.
Stories in a Nutshell
Stories allow you to configure alternative ways to play the movie in a track. Stories use
chapter markers to divide the movie into sections (cells) that you can then configure to
play, skip, or even play more than once. You can also choose to play these sections in a
different order than they appear in the track.
Stories are elements you can add to your project that are tied to a specific track—a story
can only contain content from a single track. However, a track can have multiple stories.
An advantage of stories is that because they only redefine how to play an existing track’s
movie, they do not require any additional disc space on the DVD. They do count against
the 99 track and slideshow limit that DVD Studio Pro projects have.
See
for more information about stories.
Creating the Basic Project
You follow three primary steps to create this project:
Stage 1:
Creating the Track and Adding Chapter Markers to It
The chapter markers define the sections that you can use for your stories. You can manually
add the markers in DVD Studio Pro, import the chapter markers you added in Final Cut Pro
or Final Cut Express, or import chapter markers from a text file.
Stage 2:
Creating and Configuring the Stories
For this project, you create a story for each individually playable section of the movie.
Each story contains one chapter marker to define the section of the movie to play. Each
story also has an End Jump setting that takes the viewer back to the menu.
Stage 3:
Creating and Configuring the Menus
Once you have the stories defined, you can create the one or more menus needed to
access them.
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