[Chris Thompson]

It was the speed of the card.

We were told that the Kingston Elite Pro 133x would be fast enough but according to kingston.com the 133x writes at 20MB/sec which is way under spec. We have since moved onto SanDisk Extreme 60MB/s w/UDMA and have not had an issue.

[Chris Thompson]

Thanks for the reply.

I am glad to hear that DVD Studio Pro does allow that, once my budget allows I will be getting a new FCP system. My previous experience has been doing it on the old Sonic DVD Producer and Scenarist systems Even though Encored doesn’t hold a torch to what you can do in those systems, I was a little surprised that it didn’t allow me to create that simple button.

Since I needed the Titles on the DVD for a scanner attached to the system. What I did as a work around is create a timeline for each piece of video with a 1 second clip of black and had those branch to the corresponding menus were I had the actual video with the button. I hate having all those Orphaned clips, but this is just a presentation piece playing on a dedicated system and it seems to work. However those 1 second clips really slows down the user’s experience.

[Chris Thompson]

Good idea and it does in fact work as far as giving me one monitor. However it creates other problems. The biggest one being that now when I don