Joe Bowden
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Yes, use the Specify Link dialog to set the subtitles to be displayed.
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As I recall, Encore does not support right-to-left text for subtitles.
You will have to use image subtitles, such as FabScript.
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[Jon Geddes] “You cannot reprogram the chapter next button to go to the menu in encore.”
That is a true and correct statement.
However, Encore since version 2.0 (I believe…maybe CS3) does execute the end action of a timeline, slideshow, or playlist when you are at the last chapter and press the Next button (it does this with fancy DVD scripting under the hood).
If your end action is a menu, then it would go to that menu.
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[Stéphan Vuylsteke] “BTW, can I also use Nero to burn it?”
Yes – you’ll want Nero to burn from image, which will produce a DVD-Video disc.
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Yes – Encore has trouble closing a recordable DVD if the data on disc is less than 1 GB.
Try building a DVD image, and then burning that with another application such as ImgBurn. Or add content to the DVD-ROM section of the project so that your total disc size is over 1 GB.
EDIT: Encore CS3. Not sure if Encore CS4 has the same problem. Earlier versions of Encore do not have this problem.
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How much data is on the disc?
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[Mike Cohen] “…you can do anything in Flash.”
Except build a DVD! 😉
Good luck with your project.
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You’re correct – you can’t do this in Encore.
It can be done in the DVD format – the feature is known as buttons over video, in which buttons that are only represented in the subpicture layer are overlaid on top of the video. I’m not sure, but would not be surprised if Blu-ray also supports it. But alas, this cannot be done in Encore.
You can fake it by making a really large motion menu, but then you also risk running into the DVD-Video format 1 GB limitation for motion menus.
If your needs for this are modest enough (about 15 minutes of video, maximum), then faking it might work for you.
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[Rob McLoughlin] “Tried looking round the forums and a few people have had the same problem but I cannot seem to see a solution. “
And that is because there isn’t a solution for it.
In the DVD-Video format, button highlights are 2 bit graphical overlay. 2 bits literally means pixels on or pixels off, so it will not support anything like shadows, gradients, glows, anti-aliasing, etc. – it can only represent up to 15 possible colors and up to 3 possible opacity values.
All that said, you can work around the limitations of the format by linking to duplicate menus and setting all menu buttons to auto-activate so that when the user selects the button, it goes to the linked menu – but this can be a lot of work and will not behave as expected in a software DVD player if the user mouses over the button (nothing will happen).
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You only use auto-activate if you want to have the button execute its link when it is selected (not activated/clicked, but just selected). I think that may be part of your problem…is this what you want to happen?
The other part of your problem is button routing…if Encore’s default button routing is not what you want, then you must manually route your buttons.