Chapter issue in CS4 burning Blu-Ray Disc

[Jeff Bellune]

Joe,

Out of curiosity, when you added the assets to a single timeline, did Encore show you any messages as you dropped the assets on the timeline?

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Joe Bandy]

No, encore did not give me any messages as I put my assets on the timeline.

[Jeff Bellune]

The added chapter point doesn’t make any sense to me.

Can you post a screenshot that shows the added chapter point at the 33 second mark?

And for my own orientation, the chapter point at 33 secs. is actually 22 secs. into Part 1 of the video, right?

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Joe Bandy]

That is correct, it was 33 sec because the intro screen was in front of the video and is 11 sec long. Do you mean a screen shot of the video itself or of the encore timeline?

[Jeff Bellune]

A screenshot of the timeline.

Here’s a thought – in your Premiere timeline do you have a regular sequence marker (not an Encore chapter marker) at the 33 second point? If you have text in the Name field of the sequence marker, then Encore can pick it up as a chapter point.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Joe Bandy]

I checked and I have no sequence marker in Premiere at that time. Putting assets on separate timelines helped with the extra chapter that was being added by encore but now I having a different problem. You can skip forward and backward through chapters that are on the same timeline but I can’t skip backward to a timeline that came before the one I’m on.

So I have 4 timelines
I put chapter markers at the end of each timeline so that people could skip forward to the next timeline if they wanted to. If there was no chapter marker at the end of the timeline then the timeline would have to be played to completion before going to the next. You would not be able to skip forward at all. The problem I’m having is that you cannot go backward to the timeline that came before.

So if I have a chapter at the end viewers are able to skip forward to the next timeline but they can’t skip back. If they could they would just hit the last chapter marker in the previous timeline.

How do you make it so viewers can go forward and backward through multiple timelines easily? Is this where I might need to put in some overrides!? Help!

[Jeff Bellune]

First, take out the chapter point you added at the end of the timelines. En CS3 and CS4 put an invisible chapter marker there for you automatically to handle just such a situation.

You can’t skip backwards between timelines unless the player supports it. And I’m not sure if you can do it even then.

Unless the residents of Area 51 are controlling Encore on your machine, somewhere along the line during the construction of this project, either in Pr or En, a chapter point was added at the 33-second mark. Why it’s still there, I don’t know. Maybe it would help troubleshoot why it’s there if you tried a new test:

• Create a new test project in Pr and one in En.
• Import just the problem Pr sequence into the new Pr project.
• Re-verify that there aren’t any markers where they’re not supposed to be.
• Set the work area bar to encompass the 33-second point with a minute or so on either side of it.
• Export as uncompressed (or Lagarith, if you have it) .avi.
• Import the new .avi file into the new Encore project.
• Add the .avi to a timeline and build the project to an RW disc.
• Play back the disc.

Is the chapter marker at 33 seconds gone?

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Joe Bandy]

How do you make an invisible chapter marker? It sounds like that would enable people to still move skip forward but even with it you most likely will not be able to go back to a previous timeline.

Am I correct? That’s a bummer.
I don’t know if I have time to run this test today I might have to just get this project out on separate timelines and work on that later.
Is there any reason we would use and AVI instead of H.264 for Blu-ray?
We don’t have any BD-RW discs either. We only have BD-Rs does that matter for this test.

I see encore puts invisible chapters at the end of every timeline but when I made a disc and tried to skip from one timeline to the beginning of the next it would not let me do it unless I put a visible chapter marker at the end as an end action. Is there any way to add invisible chapter points.

[Joe Bandy]

Also does Encore label the timelines as Titles in the order you create them? My first play timeline says it’s title 4 instead of title 1. Is there anyway to renumber them or do I have to reauthor the whole thing? I can’t seem to find any information on this in the manual or online help?

[Joe Bandy]

Do I need to select end actions for the last chapter stops in a timeline to go to the next timeline instead? I have already selected the end action of all timelines to go to the appropriate next timeline.