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Stop at End of Chapter
This shouldn’t be that difficult – I’m trying to create a DVD demonstrating the winemaking process; the educator needs to have the video stop at the end of each particular part of the process. I have end action set to Stop for each chapter. It needs to hold on the last frame of that chapter, so the educator can pause for Q&A, then either play that chapter again, continue to the next chapter, or go to the main menu – but it goes to black. I can’t get it to work right (of course, it does in the preview) – is there a way of doing this in DVD Studio Pro or Encore? I’ve tried both. Or is this too complex for those programs? (Or for me, ha ha)
I was hoping it would work in Encore, because we need to eventually make the same thing in HD on BluRay.
Thanks for any input. I’ve searched & searched & tried different things to no avail…
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3 Replies
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It is not hard but you have to understand what is going on.
The Pause command works on the next chapter marker. So if you want to pause the playback at chapter 2 you put the pause command on chapter one, then the screen you want to hold on should be the first frame of chapter 2. Remember a chapter mark has to fall on an I-frame so you need to use a sec of that frame. Then simply using the remote you can hit play, prev chapter or menu button.
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Thanks, Michael! I will try that tomorrow.
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The other way to do it would be to create a menu page that the player would go to at the end of the chapter. It would happily sit there until you make a menu choice, such as “Replay Chapter”, “Go to Main Menu”, etc.
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon
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