Adjusting highlight order of movies in a iDVD menu?

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Adjusting highlight order of movies in a iDVD menu?

I recently created quite a complex DVD with several different movies and a bunch of chapters for them. After all the hard work, I made the disk and put it into my DVD player. I then discovered that the button that was highlighted to play first was not the main movie but a slideshow. (There are a bunch of buttons the opening menu.)

I did some searching:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1908186

and realized that the button highlight order was based on the order that that I dragged the movies into iDVD. As I was under time constraints I decided to redo the project and drag the movies in in the order I wanted. It was very time consuming but anyway, it worked.

I am wondering if anyone has found a simple solution to this? I guess that there is some code that could be hacked within the iDVD program itself or I guess within the .dvdproj file of the movie...

DVD's are not yet dead. It is a real shame Apple is no longer updating iDVD and fixing these little problems.

MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 4 GB Ram

Posted on Aug 6, 2012 5:30 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 5, 2013 7:28 AM in response to Peace-Freak

I'm running into the same issue, but I don't have the option to drag each movie in individually because I created the movie in FCP X with chapter markers, so the chapters are already dragged in as a whole file.

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J Keller

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Nov 5, 2013 11:38 AM in response to OneBillionStories.com

iDVD's awkward way of dictating the play order of separate videos is okay (for me) because I knew the constraint beforehand. But your problem seems different -- chapters in a single video should show up in the order they were created in the editing program -- you might be able to cut and paste the chapter buttons to change that order (never had a reason to try that), but otherwise the editor sets the order.

John

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Old Toad

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Nov 5, 2013 2:22 PM in response to OneBillionStories.com

J Keller has a good idea there. Create a new submenu and copy and past the chapter links from their existing menu to the new menu in the order you want them. Try them out before deleting the orignal menu. Also make sure no links are outside the TV Safe area.

OT

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F Shippey

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Nov 5, 2013 3:25 PM in response to Old Toad

>Also make sure no links are outside the TV Safe area.<

Another problem we used to see in the past was overlapping chapter names. You need to keep the chapter names short and make sure the active areas don't overlap.

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