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Making video go back to scene selection menu
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One last (I hope) question. I just burned the disc, and played it back.
I have main menu with the following buttons: Scene Selection, Ceremony, Reception, & Extras.
I have the scene selections menu with the following buttons: Vows (associated w/Ceremony), Entrance, Toasts, & Dances (all associated w/Reception). On the scene selection menu, all work fine now, BUT, when I am trying to play either the Ceremony video, or the Reception video in their entirety, in the main menu they won’t, because they go to the chapter points that was associated with the scene selection menus, stop & go to the scene selection menu. Is there a way that they can play in their entirety on the main menu, but still the way they are in the scene selection menu? -
Chapter Playlists.
Because you have chapter end actions, there will be a slight pause during playback of the playlist that ranges in length from nanoseconds to obnoxiously long (depending on which hardware DVD player is playing the disc).
The pause will be invisible to the audience if you have transitions like fade to black and audio fade outs between chapters.
The alternative is to remove all of your chapter end actions from the chapters in the main timeline, and link the “Play All” button to the timeline.
Then create an individual chapter playlist (one chapter per playlist) for each of the scenes in your scene select menu, and link the menu buttons to the new playlists.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Or the other alternative would be to delete all the ending chapter markers in scene selection and not put end actions on the starting chapter markers, and then the button would take them to the scene, but have to watch all the way from there, right?
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That would work, but you would get a different result than what you have been asking for.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Hi, I am having a similar problem as Belinda, but with a couple of differences. First, I am using Encore 1.5. Second, I have a link that is doing doing something very strange. It is the first play, a short video/audio clip, and after it plays I have it set to go to the main menu. However, it goes to the middle of a track well into the project. No matter what I do with the clip, it goes to the same place after it is done playing. I tried to put the clip in its own menu and when it was done playing, it went to the same middle of the project track. I did the things Jeff described in his post, but even when I tried the override method, after it was done playing, it still went to the same track. I just cannot figure out what the problem is. Thanks for any help….I know this is an old version and maybe everyone is rusty.
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Hi Scott,
None of the stuff in Encore 2.0 or CS3 or CS4 that makes navigation easy is available in 1.5. So there’s not much in this thread that will apply to you.
So it’s back to basics. Remove every single override that is set anywhere in your project and test the navigation again.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Jeff, thank you for the fast reply! I went through the entire project and indeed there were four overrides (all associated with button function), which I removed as you recommended. I figured that would do it, but, unfortunately, when I previewed the project, it did the exact same thing it was doing before I removed the overrides (but I am glad I took the time to get the overrides out since it sounds like these really cause a lot of problems with 1.5). I am relatively certain I have removed all of the overrides (I checked it a third time and everything was OK). Do you have any other suggestions? Thank you for your help.
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So I need more details about the project structure.
From what I understand, the first play timeline’s end action is linked to the Main Menu, but instead of going to the Main Menu it goes…where? Please outline the rest of your project structure.
Also, when you preview the first play timeline, are you using File | Preview or are you using Preview From Here? Try the other one and see what happens.
Have you tried burning your project to an RW disc and testing in a hardware DVD player? How about building a disc image and then mounting it with something like VirtualCloneDrive or Daemon Tools and playing the DVD with a software DVD player? Maybe it’s an issue with Encore’s preview only.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Jeff, The project is a 3 GB video of questions and answers for a 34 chapter biology course. The main menu is a seven button listing to link to chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, etc. Those links then take you to a screen with five buttons to chose the specific chapter, and then when you chose the chapter link, it goes to another menu to chose an idividual question to play. Once a question is selected to play, it plays all the way through the end of the timeline unless the viewer stops it. Each submenu has a back button and a main menu button, as well. The first play is an 8 second video/audio clip of our logo that should then default to the Main Menu, but instead it jumps to the Q/A either of question 19, 20 or 21 in chapter 28.
I am pretty certain that every time I have previewed it, I have done so through the File Preview method. I haven’t used the Preview from Here on this project. I also have not tried any of the other suggestions you have, but I will do so and see what happens. It may take me a little while as I am not a video guy and am just slogging through this (with your excellent help) the best I can. I will repost when I have tried your suggestions and let you know what happens (unless you have any other ideas after reading the way the presentation is structured). Thank you for your ideas.
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Jeff, I tried both preview methods and they both do the same thing. I also tried to burn a disc and build a DVD folder, but each one of those gave me an “Unknown error” dialogue box after about 2 minutes and stopped burning the disc or building the folder.
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