[MacDV] Looking for: iDVD3 chapters and menus hack

[Erica Sadun]

At 12:06 PM -0400 6/21/03, Fabian Ius wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>just completed a 01:24:08:00 project in iMovie3 and burned a copy 
>(Project Size 87:13 of 90:00 and 4.26 GB) in iDVD3.
>(First burned it onto a Verbatim DVD-RW to ensure everything was 
>playing properly, then burned a copy from the -RW disk to a TDK -R 
>disk using Toast)
>
>There are 5 pages of menus (with motion / looping... 30 seconds 
>each) and 6 chapters/scenes per menu (the default number for iDVD3).
>
>The entire project looks good. (some of my favourite Seinfeld episodes)
>
>Just looking for a few hacks to make the scenes a wee bit easier to access.
>
>I know I can skip to any chapter using the remote, however, when 
>selecting a scene/chapter from the menus, it is not very 
>user-friendly.
>Example:  play scene/chapter 17 of the "movie", selecting "menu" 
>from the remote takes me back to the first menu page.  Then I have 
>to move forward through each menu page to get back to that page that 
>has scene/chapter 17.
>
>I have read that this is possible in DVDSP (I currently do not have 
>the time nor money to invest in this app) to return to the previous 
>menu, but was wondering if anyone has tried to "hack" it in iDVD3.
>
>Erica ?  ;-)

iDVD: Hack the project file and change the JumpWhenFinished
properties.

-- Erica