Play All Button Weirdness

[Jeff Bellune]

Do you have any overrides set anywhere in the project?

-Jeff

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[George Cox]

Except for the Play All and the last clip the Override is set to Main Menu.
I have just deleted all the Overrides and the problem is still the same.
GEORGE.

[Jeff Bellune]

Please check each and every asset and object in your project again. Your symptoms are textbook for problems that occur when overrides are used incorrectly and/or unnecessarily.

-Jeff

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[George Cox]

I have just rebuilt the project and only set the End Actions and Using Play All it plays right through to the last clip and then back to the Main Menu. If I set the Overrides, to return to the Main Menu, I am back to the same problem.
GEORGE.

[Joe Bowden]

Don’t use overrides. Unless you understand exactly what they do, you will not get your expected behavior.

Use chapter playlists with end actions instead – much simpler.

[Jeff Bellune]

[George Cox] “If I set the Overrides, to return to the Main Menu, I am back to the same problem.”

Exactly. Don’t use overrides. Use Chapter Playlists and Chapter End Actions instead.

If each of your “chapters” are in separate timelines, then use a standard playlist for the Play All function.

Do not ever use overrides unless you know exactly what they do, how they can possibly affect your disc navigation and then only if you are absolutely certain the other playlist options can’t accomplish the required navigation.

In other words, the answer to the question “When should I use Overrides?” comes very close to “Never.” 🙂

EDIT: Apparently Joe is just a bit quicker on the Submit Post button than I am today.

-Jeff

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[George Cox]

I have always used Override in the past without problems.
To be honest, I do not know how to “Use chapter playlists with end actions instead”. Can you point me to a tutorial, please.
GEORGE.

[Joe Bowden]

Here’s what an override does: it replaces the end action of the targeted object. If you fully understand this statement, then overrides shouldn’t give you much trouble.

However, chapter playlists and end actions are just easier to work with. Explain what you want to happen, and I can give you an outline of how to do it with chapter playlists.

[George Cox]

Well I have 7 video clips, each linked to a button. There is a Play All button linked to the first video and it plays through to the 7th clip and then returns to the Main Menu. But I want to be able to “click” on any button and just play that clip. This is what I have used Override for in the past without problems. In fact, before posting my problem here, I checked the tutorial on the Wrigley Video site to ensure that I was doing it correctly.
GEORGE.

[Joe Bowden]

You have a single timeline with multiple clips, right?

Here’s how you do it:

1. Create a timeline that has all the clips (and chapters) with no overrides. Set the end action of the timeline to where you want to go after the entire timeline has played. Link the Play All button to chapter 1 of this timeline.

2. Create a chapter playlist for each clip in the timeline. Set the end action of each chapter playlist to where you want to go after the the chapter playlist plays (presumably back to the menu). Link each button to each chapter playlist that you want to play.

That’s really all there is to it.