[Joe Bowden]

Encore can’t do it. Gear Pro for Mastering can do it, though.

[Joe Bowden]

When I hit stop twice, remove it and then reinsert it, it seems to start playing again at random points.

You mean it auto-plays something other than First Play?

I believe that’s a player issue. I have an inexpensive Yamakawa player that “remembers” the last disc inserted and resumes playback at where it was when it last played. As far as I know, there is no way to change this behavior other than using a different (likely a little more expensive) make and model of player.

My Sony and Pioneer players do not behave in this way…ejecting the disc, then inserting it again is like inserting a new disc- a blank slate. This is more desirable in a DVD player, in my opinion.

[Joe Bowden]

Can you provide more detail about your Encore project and your computer system?

[Joe Bowden]

No, this is not possible with Encore. However, you can do it using eDVD with an Encore-generate DVD folder.

[Joe Bowden]

Yes, Encore 2.0 does support end actions for chapter points.

[Joe Bowden]

Are you using Encore 1.5 (or 1.0) or Encore 2.0? I suspect the former.

In Encore 1.5, the way to control this is to create your timelines in the order you want them laid out on the DVD, i.e. timeline creation order = VTS creation order, and if you do a hard “stop”, pressing Play again plays the first VTS on disc.

In Encore 2.0, you can set a timeline to be Main Timeline, i.e VTS1.

[Joe Bowden]

Maybe your system is underpowered? It works fine for me…

Did you install the tryout? If so, lucky for you that Adobe posted one. 🙂

[Joe Bowden]

Yes.

[Joe Bowden]

There are at least four ways to create a timeline in Encore 2.0:

File > New > Timeline
Click the “Create a New Item” button in the Project panel, then select “Timeline”
Ctrl+T to create a new timeline
Choose Timeline > New Timeline

From there, you drag your video clip into the timeline (you can also preselect the asset, then choose the above options to automatically add it to a new timeline).

There are also four ways set a timeline to First Play:

If it is the first object created in the project (objects are timelines, menus, and playlists), it is automatically set to First Play
If not, select the timeline, then choose File > Set as First Play
Or, select the timeline, right-click, then choose Set as First Play
Or go to the Disc panel, look at the Properties panel, then click in the First Play field and choose the timeline you want to be First Play

Read as much of the Help as you can, check out the tutorials at Adobe Studio (on the Adobe website), and the Adobe Encore DVD User to User Forum has an FAQ and Tutorials section that should help you out with the basics.

[Joe Bowden]

Are you certain you’ve read the Help? 😉

You need to create a timeline, then set it to First Play. Look up “first play” in the Help for more info on that.

If your project has no menus, then you don’t need to worry about Title and Remote Menu messages.

-Joe