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Chapter Index – not working right – or I misunderstand
Hi – me again! Ok, this time I tried to set up a Chapter menu. The video I am working with was exported from Premiere CS3 with Encore Chapter markers so I have the timeline and the chapter playlist all set up (though I’m not really sure what to do with the playlist – if anything.. )
My chapter menu has 6 chapter links, a previous, main menu and a next button. I made sure to set all of the button’s type correctly. For the chapter buttons I have Create Text Subpicture, Sync Button Text and Name and Set Name from link checked. No overrides but all of the chapter buttons have transitions (the same transition for all of the chapter links). I made sure to use the pick whip to link all 6 of the chapter links to the timeline.
For the previous button (and next) I have Create text subpicture and Sync button text and name checked.
Button numbers: I first started out with the ‘Previous’ button being number 1, then the chapter buttons were 2 through 7 then the main menu button was 8 and the next button was 9. But, in case the button numbers had something to do with it, I tried making my chapter buttons start with 1 – and the other buttons go from 7 -> 9 – same results..
Here’s what happened when I ran the Menu -> Create Chapter Index command:
Eight chapter menus were created. The first one appropriately did not show the Previous button. All good so far..
The second (and the rest) chapter menu’s got a bit whacky.. The Previous button was in the place of the 6th Chapter button. The first chapter button was in the place of the Previous button, the second chapter button through the 6th were ‘one slot up’ – ie, C2 was in C1’s position, C3 was in C2’s position, etc..
So am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Not doing something that I should? Help! Pulling my hair out!
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
–KTFA
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I’ve never used this feature of Encore, but the transitions may be causing problems.
Do a Save As and work on a copy of the project. Delete the transition links and assets from the project. Then try to set up your chapter index menus again.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Thanks Jeff,
I’ll give that a shot and will report back what I find.–KTFA
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I’ve successfully used this feature many times. The part where it got whacky has got me confused. You wrote:
The Previous button was in the place of the 6th Chapter button. The first chapter button was in the place of the Previous button, the second chapter button through the 6th were ‘one slot up’ – ie, C2 was in C1’s position, C3 was in C2’s position, etc..
What do you mean by “in the place”? Do you mean the buttons weren’t linked correctly?
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Thanks Joe,
No, by ‘in the place’ I mean the physical location on screen.–KTFA
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Encore shouldn’t change the layout of the menu in any way except to hide the Previous or Next button, depending on the order of the menu.
So just to be clear – your originating menu has all its buttons with the appropriate button prefixes for all button types?
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Yes, that’s what I understood too..
As far as I know I have the button prefixes set correctly:
Thanks for your time on this..
–KTFA
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It may be that the automatic button routing is messing this up somehow.
Have you tried unchecking “Automatically Route Buttons” on your originating menu? (you’ll have to manually route them)
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Honestly, I’m not sure – I think that’s how I had it set originally (without automatically route buttons turned on) but I’ve been in what I call the trapped fly syndrome for a little bit – you know, where the trapped fly keeps banging up against the same window trying to get out when if he just flew the opposite way he’d find an open window? Well, after reading the manual, searching here @ the cow, I wound up just checking different settings.
Since then I’ve basically edited all of the generated menu’s to where they are almost ok.. The Previous button jumps around slightly so I’ll probably edit each of the menu’s in photoshop to get that exactly right, but I really want to know what I did wrong for next time if you know what I mean?
So, I’ll try de-selecting the auto-routing in a separate copy and report back – but that’ll be later tonight..
–KTFA
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Ok, so it seems that was the issue (auto route buttons). Which looks like it’s the default setting.. Wonder if there’s a way to change that.
Anyway, now I’m facing another problem with the chapter menu’s.. The first one works fine. The second comes up and the default button is highlighted but user can’t navigate to the other buttons at all.. Only thing they can do is select that first button which does play the link – I’ve tried several things from copying the first one and relinking, turning off the ‘Create Text Subpicture’, saving, then turning it back on.. Nada.
Frustrating.
–KTFA
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Check the Encore help on how to manually route your buttons.
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