Joe Bowden
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You set that up in the Specify Link dialog – you can access this via the Link field in the Button Properties panel.
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Have you actually got buttons with video thumbnail layers in the menus?
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Sure, just set the end action of the timeline to Return to Last Menu.
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Hi Matthew – you need to install the Library content separately from the installer discs.
If you are handy in Photoshop (that is, if you also have Photoshop) – you could make your own until you get your discs.
What kind of buttons are you looking for?
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Remove all overrrides and clear all chapter end actions from your project.
Instead, set up individual chapter playlists for each chapter and set their end action to Return to Last Menu. Then link your Play All button to the timeline chapter 1, and each other button to its corresponding chapter playlist.
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Glad to hear of your success Wendall!
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OK, I think we’re approaching the finish line now…
If you are linking to a timeline with chapters (not to chapter playlists), then give the timeline an end action of Return to Last Menu. If you are linking chapter playlists, make sure all of them have Return to Last Menu as the end action.
In either case, make sure you are not using overrides anywhere in the project.
Let us know how that works for you.
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Wendall, it’s really not that tough…
The Flowchart and Check Project dialog are telling you exactly what’s wrong with the project: your First Play timeline (INTRO CLIP) has no end action. That means nothing happens on the disc after INTRO CLIP plays. If you want something to happen, you’ve got to set its end action.
Set your NEW TIMELINE end action to what you want to happen when the timeline has played out.
I guess I don’t understand why you are setting your Timeline User Operations to None. That means your Next/Previous chapter buttons won’t work, and you won’t be able to fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, etc. Not even click go to a menu on the DVD while the timeline plays. Nothing. If that’s what you want, then set the timeline user ops to None. Otherwise, set it to All, or set it to Custom and check which operations you want available when video is playing.
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You need to manually route your buttons.
Select the menu, go to the Properties panel, and uncheck “Automatically Route Buttons”. Then in the Menu editor, click the “Show Button Routing” button at the bottom of the panel, and then click, drag, and drop to route your buttons as you want them.
For more information, search Encore Help for “button routing”.
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Many Blu-ray players just won’t play BDMV that is written to DVD media – different lasers and all. Maybe they will in the future if provided with the capability in a later firmware update, I don’t know. With the price of BD recordable discs down to $3 and change, it’s probably not as compelling to have short-form BDMV on DVD recordable as it was when BD recordables were $20 and up.
And don’t get me going about Samsung Blu-ray players – their early models were complete junk, IMHO. Sometimes firmware updates to the players correct bugs in the players, but similar problems have been reported with burned BD from Encore, Sonic, and other authoring systems on Samsung and other players…which is to say, I don’t think it’s an authoring problem you’re seeing, but a player/firmware problem. Take your disc to a BestBuy and check it on a few different Blu-ray players, such as Sony or Panasonic.
Which is all to say that Blu-ray authoring is still in its early days. Similar stories can be found back in the days of DVD authoring’s first steps.