[James Lummel]

Thanks for the reply Jeff, but a menu with a duration isn’t a motion menu! It’s a menu with a timeout, and Encore versions 1.0, 1.5 & 2.0 worked fine with a duration but no audio or video settings (as long as ‘Hold Forever’ wasn’t checked, as this would hang at the menu on some settop boxes which were unable to handle the conflicting directives). It also works with most other DVD authoring software to have a menu timeout as well, it’s part of the DVD spec.

Then in CS3 the DVD previewed fine in Encore but hung when played on PowerDVD and many settop boxes when a menu duration was set (in the same manner that leaving ‘Hold Forever’ while setting a ‘Duration’ did in previous versions, though different DVD players were affected).

Now in CS4 the DVDs play fine in settop DVD players and in PowerDVD, but won’t preview properly. Selecting anything other than the current button results in the end action being executed.

This is a bug, not a feature as earlier version of Encore handled this properly! This bug was introduced when Blu-ray authoring was added to Encore – which, with things like pop-up menus, handles menus differently than DVD does. Though they fixed the DVD scripting part in CS4 over the errors introduced in CS3, now Encore won’t preview a menu with a duration properly as it did on all 4 previous versions (1.0, 1.5, 2.0 & CS3).

My question is has anyone else encountered this bug and is there a work-around? Using the test project I descibe can others recreate the situation I encountered?