Jeff Bellune
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If you want to keep the menus, then DVDD won’t work for you. I see that George has already chimed in with a suggestion.
If you want to use only freeware to do this task, then be warned it is not for the faint-of-heart. In fact, it may be faster to re-do the menus from scratch.
For about 50 bucks you can use DVDReMake. I think it will do what you want. Read the review here.
-Jeff
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Google for DVD Decrypter. The official site no longer exists, but there are several mirror sites available.
Use DVDD to rip the old DVD into .m2v and .wav files that Encore can use. Here is a link to my guide on how to do that:
Guide to using DVDD with Encore
You can then use as much or as little of the video from the old DVD as you want.
-Jeff
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Make sure to render the motion menu every time you change something on the menu.
-Jeff
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Find the Properties panel. Make sure the Project panel is open and you can see both panels at the same time. The Link control has a swirly icon on its left side. That’s the pickwhip. Click and drag it to the timeline that you want as the link for the button.
Encore’s Sync Button Text and Name feature will automatically rename the button for you when you create the link.
-Jeff
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Find the “Library” tab. Search through each of the categories to see if there is a template that you like. If you limit the search to menus only (leftmost icon above the item list), you can make searching easier.
If this is the first time you’ve used the Library, then changing categories will cause Encore to initialize each category for you, which will take a few minutes for each one.
-Jeff
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Make sure you Alt+Drag the asset to make it the background video for the menu. If you do a normal drag-and-drop, then you get the behavior you’ve described.
-Jeff
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QT Reference files are not supported in Encore 1.x. Encore 2.0 provides QT Ref support. Export instead as a self-contained .mov file and you should be OK.
-Jeff
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I can achieve what you want to do using either method – linking directly to chapter 2 or trimming+sliding, then deleting chapter 2 and linking to the “new” chapter 1.
Did you have any overrides set when you first tried to link directly to chapter 2? If so, go back and try it again without any overrides set.
-Jeff
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Are you currently using any overrides anywhere in your project?
-Jeff
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Try trimming the first 30 seconds of the original timeline, back to the chapter marker that you want to use as a link. Then link the new timeline to the old one. Let us know if that works.
-Jeff
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