Joe Bowden
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Which version of Encore are you using?
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Adobe didn’t overlook it, there just hasn’t been time yet (we’re talking about version 1.5 here).
Regards,
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Stories are not possible in Encore. Please file a feature request on Adobe’s site, as this would be a great feature to have.
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Do you mean you want to force a subtitle for a particular chapter, then off again?
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What you know is incorrect…Encore has been able to force subtitles since version 1.0.
You specify this in Disc Properties, in the Set Subtitles field.
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Let us know if that works for you.
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Pressing Stop once will leave the player in resume mode on many DVD players (this is usually referred to as a “soft stop”); pressing Play again on such a player will resume where playback left off. Pressing Stop twice on such a player truly stops it, and then pressing Play again begins playback from the first title on the disc (in Encore, this equals the first timeline created).
So in your project, the first timeline created should be an empty timeline with an end action set to your menu, then create whatever other timelines you want to play in sequence when a user gets in this type of playback mode. When the first title is an empty timeline whose end action is a menu, then stopping the player, then pressing play will play a black timeline for a second or so, then jump to the menu.
Note that some players will actually stop the first time you press Stop (they have no “soft” stop as described above). In this case, pressing play again displays the same behavior as described above.
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EMPTY timeline, if the above was unclear…sorry ’bout the omission.
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I believe it might be because DVD camcorders write video and audio in a VOB format. Did you rename the file extension to MPG? If you strip the video and audio streams out and import those, does it work?
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Believe it or not, stop really does mean stop.
It’s certainly not possible to map the Stop button to anything else with Encore DVD, and I don’t believe this is even possible to do in the DVD-Video format, with any DVD authoring tool.
If users are DVD-savvy, they’ll be able to bypass any menu requirement you may want in your DVD by using a title search to navigate timelines. However, for the non-savvy, you could create an timeline first in your project (Encore writes timelines in the order of their creation as titles on the DVD), and set its end action to your menu. That way, when a user stops the DVD, then hits play again, the timeline will play for a split second, then go to the menu.
Hope this is helpful,
Joe