• Adobe Encore DVD

  Menu like options plus scroll through video?

  Posted by Ben Wharton on July 4, 2006 at 4:52 pm

  Hi there.

  Putting together a showreel in which one of the DVD options is a radio interview. I’d like to be able to run the interview (which does have associated video) as if it were a menu so that there’s a “return” button on the screen as it runs.

  Now of course you can create a menu and set it to the duration of the interview but then (I assume) you lose the ability to fast forward/rewind through the piece (like a normal video clip).

  So wondering if there’s any way around this in Encore? Am I missing something very obvious? Only using version 1.5 at the moment.

  Thanks for any pointers.

  Ben

  Joe Bowden replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Joe Bowden

  July 5, 2006 at 1:43 pm

  What you are looking for is a “button-over-timeline” type of functionality. Encore doesn’t offer that- sorry.

  What you could do is include a written instruction in the timeline to “To Return, Press the Menu Button on Your DVD Player Remote Control”. This could either be done in pre-production (superimposed over your graphic in an NLE) or as a forced subtitle in the Encore timeline.
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  Ben Wharton

  July 5, 2006 at 2:05 pm

  Hi Joe

  Thanks for the reply.

  And yes, I thought as much. Any idea if it’s a feature in DVD Studo Pro 4?!

  Meanwhile, I thought the same not-so-elegant Plan B and have rendered instructions into the video…

  Ben
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  Joe Bowden

  July 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

  Any idea if it’s a feature in DVD Studo Pro 4?!

  Might be a good question to pose at the Cow DVDSP subforum… 🙂

  Cheers,
  Joe

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