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Have you checked the build number of Encore? (Help > About Adobe Encore) Maybe it is already 1.0.1.xxxx.
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[DanielHaskett] “Would it involve making separate pages for each image with the thumbnails next to it?”
Yes it would. Author each page as a still menu (with a maximum of 36 buttons/thumbnails). That is about all there is to it. 🙂
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An arrow indicator? That is something you would only see when playing a DVD on a computer and the position of the mouse pointer is not something the disc has control over. If you add nothing else to your menus to indicate which button the viewer is on, selecting something will be rather hit&miss. 😉
As for the other two issues I would suggest to burn a good quality DVD-R (Maxell, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden) and test on a set top DVD player.
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With the help of an add-on: Sonic eDVD3.
Also see Alex Alexzander’s Sonic eDVD3, review and tutorial.
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Please check Re: Loop Portion of AVI on the Cow Encore forum.
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You can do this if you author the video as background of a motion menu. In the menu Properties you will find a “loop point” setting. The part before the time set in this “loop point” will be played once, everything after it will loop. Be aware that all menus together on a DVD are not allowed to exceed 1GB (corresponding roughly to 15 minutes of video).
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What have you set as “Duration” and “Loop #” in the menu Properties?
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A menu with rollover type buttons is in fact a stack of menus. On each of those menus all buttons except the one linked that is currently selected is set to “auto activate”. As soon as you navigate to one of those buttons with the arrow keys on the remote, it will automatically activate and send you to another menu with a different image for that button on it. This way the rollover effect is achieved.
But all software DVD players have the “auto activate” function disabled for direct mouse operation. This is why you have to click first to see the rollover state. The menu will work as intended when using the player’s virtual remote keypad.
The only real solution is not to use layered menus (which are a workaround for a DVD spec limitation).
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A DVD-Video disc can be either NTSC or PAL, but it can’t contain both.
If you got a problem creating a 16:9 (widescreen) DVD, could you give some more details on the source material you are trying to use?