Joe Bowden
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[eric pautsch] “If you HAVE to mixed both into one for a menu you will need to upscale your 720 to 1080 first to make 1 1080i title. “
Actually, that is not correct. You can have a timeline with 720p and another timeline with 1080i in the same project, and when you output to Blu-ray, they will be retain their frame size and rate.
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[Wesley Dysart] “I just want to set my chapter stops, pick a menu, give it a name and burn it.”
You can almost do that using the Create Chapter Index command – select a menu, link the first button to the first chapter, and then choose Create Chapter Index – that will link each consecutive button to the next chapter in the sequence, even creating new menus from your original.
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It is possible, yes – but the two different sizes/frame rates cannot coexist on the same timeline.
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What you want is a button highlight that is not a subpicture layer.
In DVD-Video, most commercial titles use the subpicture layer for button highlights. The subpicture layer is always a 2 bit overlay that allows simple color and opacity – no images, glows, drop shadows, etc. This is Encore’s default button highlighting mode when using button layers with the (=1,2,3) prefix.
It is possible to have a button highlight that uses a picture instead of the subpicture layer, but it requires avoiding subpicture layers and instead making a separate menu for each button highlight, and then use auto-activate on the button to switch to the next menu when the button is selected.
The downside to not using the subpicture layer for button highlights is it’s a lot of work to create separate menus for each button highlight, especially if you have lots of buttons, and that this kind of menu will not work with software DVD players (you have to press the button to go to the next menu). Also, sometimes these types of menus have performance problems in some standalone DVD players.
My advice would be to stick to what the DVD-Video specification calls for: use the simple graphical subpicture layer to indicate button status. This is what nearly all the Hollywood studios do on their release DVDs.
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In DVD-Video, all video files are encoded to MPEG-2. What are your 30 GB of video encoded to?
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You would add the password in the application that you zip with. I know WinZip can add password protection to an archive.
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Your question might be better asked in a Flash forum.
Here’s a tip if you want something close-but-not-quite the same using Encore alone – make lots of chapters – then your users can chapter through to someplace close to where they used to be.
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An override replaces the end action of the object that is targeted.
So if you have a timeline1 with an end action to timeline2, and a button linked to timeline1 with an override to Return to Last Menu, timeline1 will Return to Last Menu if it gets played by clicking the button linked to it.
Overrides can be confusing. You are really better off using playlists or chapter playlists, as their flow is much more straightforward.
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On further consideration…
One thing that you probably could do is create an image or zip of this DVD-Video disc, and then add security (essentially, password protection) to release the archive. Burn this encoded image/zip to DVD-ROM (you’d need a more general-purpose burning application such as ImgBurn, Nero, or something else to burn this).
Then, provided your intended audience has the password, they could expand the archive, and as long as they have a software DVD player, play it from the DVD folder.
This scenario is outside the realm of DVD-Video authoring (which of course also means Encore), though. It requires a file archiving software program, and its security is only as strong as to whom you choose to give the password.
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None that I know of.
Certainly no built-in support for something like this in the DVD-Video specification.