Joe Bowden
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You should be able to replace a menu without issue. Open the menu you want to replace, then choose Menu > Replace Menu.
Rename your new M2V files and you can use them to replace the existing M2V files in the project.
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Encore 2.0 provides the way to solve both problems: replace menu and replace asset.
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FYI: the maximum bit rate for video on a DVD is 9.8 MBps, so you’ll want to re-encode any MPEG-2 files with video bit rates higher than that. Also, if you are burning a recordable DVD, conventional wisdom is anything over 7 MBps can cause player problems, depending on the player. Keep both those points in mind, but the first point is most important.
Now- your button transitions should be at least 1/2 second long (the minimum size for an MPEG-2 GOP). Anything less may cause trouble.
Hopefully, this will solve your problem.
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Actually, that is incorrect, Gene…there are authoring packgages that offer access to GPRMs and other programming features that will work on a DVD in a set top player.
Sonic Scenarist comes to mind. There may be others.
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Remove all overrides everywhere in the project: check all buttons, menus, timelines, slideshows, chapter playlists, and playlists.
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You have one chapter playlist?
Have you tried instead to have one chapter playlist per chapter in the timeline, and set their end action to ‘Return to Last Menu’?
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It won’t be difficult on the production side of things- you’re only limited by your system. Once you go to DVD, you’re limited by the size of the disc you are delivering on.
Very generally speaking, you can have up to 2 hrs of video on a single DVD5 disc that will be of what I might consider acceptable quality. Your definition of acceptable quality may vary, and much of it will depend on the type of video that will be encoded. For instance, scenes with lots of detail and motion will take more bandwidth on the disc to achieve ‘acceptable’ video quality than a static head shot and a simple background.
It is possible to get 4 hrs of video onto a single DVD5, but quality will be low. Better quality can be achieved if you author for DVD+R DL (or DVD9).
A DVD recorder may be helpful for you (you’ll have less control over the transcoding process than you would in a software or hardware encoder), but can introduce problems if you need to add more than just its templated menus (you’d have to strip video & audio streams off the disc, and then import them into your authoring program).
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Normally when you enter a timeline, it will play until the end of the timeline (the exception is if there are chapter point end actions, a new feature in Encore 2.0) or the viewer takes action otherwise.
If you want only a single chapter to play, have you tried making chapter playlists and linking to those?
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It won’t be possible to get 12 hours of video onto a single DVD, if that’s what you’re asking.
Can you define what you mean by “the best way”? What’s most important to you: getting it onto as few discs as possible (lowest video quality), acceptable video quality, or highest video quality?
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[Cannon] “When a user inserts the DVD into their machine and immediately hits the play button on the remote control the menu never appears, it starts playing the first timeline for the first button.”
This is really correct behavior, actually. Most users will wait for a menu to load before doing anything.
But if you really want to prevent the viewer from speedily bypassing the menu, then turn off all user operations on the menu (and maybe the disc itself). Or create an empty timeline which has an end action set to the menu, and set it to the Main Timeline.