[Mike Costantini]

I figured out the problem. I have the video cam and an audio firewire device daisy chained. When I connected the cam direct to the port on the computer, it does not crash anymore. Strange because I had them daisy’d in the past and it worked alright..oh well.. Thanks for your help though!

[Mike Costantini]

the pages are already in a digital format (and were never in a printed format to begin with) I suppose the resolution problem could be overcome with big enough words. But then of course the whole page would not fit on the screen.

This leads me to ask if there is some facility that exists that allows a viewer to actually scroll (a screen) up and down with the arrows on his remote?

[Mike Costantini]

Yep that’s what I did, I put both timelines in a play list and linked that playlist to my play all button. End action of timeline 1 is the first chapter of timeline 2. But no, that doesn’t fix the backing up a chapter to the previous timeline problem. It’s probably not even going to be an issue. People typically don’t go backwards, and it’s only going to happen between chapters 85 and 86.

[Mike Costantini]

No worries, it took me a few hours but I did everything manually. I kind of had to anyways because you have to have all your chapters in your timeline named, and have the get name from link option selected, otherwise it just repeats everything on the chapter index menu. So I had to:

1) Create the first menu just the way I wanted it which turned out to be the intro button, 28 chapters, and navigation buttons

2) Make a copy of that menu and manually change each text button 1-28 to 29-56, repeat this til I reached 100 chapters. Comes out to 4 menus.

3) Import my first asset and drop it onto the first timeline

4) alt-tab back and forth between NLE and Encore copying the timecode for every single chapter point and inserting them in the timeline.

5) Used link tool to link each chapter to its button.

My first timeline went up to 85 chapters so today I’ll do the second one which will be the rest. I didn’t think to have the intro thing in its own timeline, but just as well, it’s basically done..

[Mike Costantini]

As far as the timelines go, should I just split the video into two timelines at the 50 chapter mark?

[Mike Costantini]

Will do.. I’ll let you know how it goes,, thanks for the help!

[Mike Costantini]

By “jigger it” I am guessing that you mean figure out how many chapters I am going to have on each timeline, then create the chapter index accordingly? I won’t put the max number of buttons, just whatever looks good, and of course, save room for the next, previous and home buttons too.. Man this has turned out to be quite the undertaking..

[Mike Costantini]

I think I’ve almost got it.. One more question. I should only name chapters 1 through 100 (spanned over two timelines), then run the chapter index function. AFter that has completed, I should go back and put in the chapters for the intro, conclusion, and credits. In other words, any chapter on the timeline(s) will be used when the chapter index runs so it’s best to leave those three other ones off the timeline until the function is done?

[Mike Costantini]

I was thinking that was something different but that just may work for what I need to do. let me see if I understand:

I create one menu exactly as I want it, say, the first 36 chapter links (assuming they fit nicely) Then the chapter menu feature will create the other menus with the rest of the links?

The menus are not exactly the same though. There’s going to be:

Introduction
1,2,3,4…100
Conclusion
Credits

How does the chapter menu feature account for those things (intro, conclusion, credits) ?

[Mike Costantini]

Thanks but this does not actually help me to accomplish it. I’m trying to find a way to create these links without having to create each and every one of them. In another forum, someone suggested I use the actions (macros) in Photoshop.. How is it done in Encore?