[William Mcqueen]

Minu, in your previous mail you wrote:

1. Create timeline . Create chapters in timeline.Set timeline end action to menu.
2. Select Timeline and create chapter playlist .
3. For Chapter 1 to play , only bring( double click) chapter 1 from left to right . Now you have a chapter playlist that will play chapter 1 . Set its end action : Return to menu .
4. For chapter 2 to play , create chapter playlist , bring only chapter 2 to right side . Same way for other chapters .
5. Now link Timeline to playall button and chapter playlists to other buttons.
6. Now check your flowchart .

I followed this fairly carefully, but found that I could not get the “playall button” to link successfully to the timeline of the project and was left with it as an orphan. However, what did work was to set up an additional Chapter Playlist for the playall button, and copied all chapters into the right hand space of the Chapter Playlist tab. (left double click on the Chapter Playlist name in the Project Tab.) Although I was left with a timeline orphan, I burned the diskette anyway. And the diskette functions perfectly. I know the encore_CS4 help file said to delete such extraneous files, but couldn’t figure out how to do that. Nevertheless, the DVD works well in Windows7 Media Player, and my relatively newer Toshiba player.

Thanks again, Minu.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thank you so much for your help, Minu. I may do a little debrief later on today, but need to go out now for some errands. I deeply appreciate your patience, and I do have an authored disk now that does mostly what I needed to do. And I learned so much…in the process.

Thanks again,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Minu,

>In my flowchart 1st button is linked to timeline and rest are >linked to chapter playlist .You can distinguish between items from >there icons .

Do you mean: You create the chapter playlist (for a single timeline) and leave all the chapters in the left hand pane, rather than move them to the right hand pane in a new order?

I simply can’t get the menu icons to appear following each chapter play as you do in your screen shot, despite having set the menu as the end action through the chapter playlist.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Minu,

>>2. Your chapter playlists should contain single chapters and >>should have end action set to menu . There is no end action set >>in your flowchart.

I notice that the menu icon is connect to the right of each of chapters 1, 2 ,and 3 in your representation. I assume this is what is called a representation of an “end action.”

I have indeed set the menu as the end action in “Chapter Playlist” properties tab, but those icons do not appear in the flowchart. And using the whip thingy, I cannot drag a connection between each of the C3,C4,C5 thumbnails and the menu.

Also would like to have transitions for chapters 2-5, but I will run another diskette and see what happens. The Check project shows no anomalies.

Thanks so much,

Regards,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Minu,

Here is the screenshot of the Flowchart. I see there is an orphan element, but when I do a Build-Check Project there are no “complaints” from the programme.

https://i1.creativecow.net/u-upload.php#

Thanks so much,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Minu,

Yes, originally I did set the individual timeline chapters end actions, but later have changed them to “not set” by deleting the previous references.

I deleted an earlier Chapter Playlist, and replaced it with a new one, specifying the end action for the Chapter List designating returning to the menu at the end of the chapter.

**I also set a 12 second avi transition for each of the first four buttons, but it fails to appear in the DVD rendered.

For the first four buttons I’ve used the “preview from here” option, and the “execute end action” (which is supposed to be to go back to the menu).

In the DVD for the first button, the DVD continues to play into the next chapter instead of returning to the menu

The same is true for the second, and other buttons. The menu starts properly to play a selected chapter, but it does finish by going to the menu.

For the fifth – it now does play the entire timeline, but for it to do that, I had to use the Chapter play list to make that work, but the menu doesn’t appear at its end.

When I test “execute end action” in “preview from here” it indicates a return to the menu, but this is not rendered to the DVD when I’ve burned it.

It is the same on a computer playback, a fairly new Toshiba and a slightly older Sony player.

It has been a good learning occasion and I appreciate your willingness to help, but I wonder if the programme retains some erroneous info and maybe I should do another iteration with a fresh start from the beginning. Time consuming, but….I don’t know.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto.

[William Mcqueen]

Thank you so much for your reply.

I’ve set up a Chapter Playlist and each of the first four buttons play a designated chapter and then returns to the menu.

However, I seem to be unable to designate the “play all” function for the 5th button. I linked it to the single timeline, which has 5 named Chapters 1,2,3,4,5.

However, I see no “play all” function and when the play all button is activated, it persists in playing just chapter 1 and then returning to the menu.

I do see timecode for chapter 1 defined as 00;00;00;00 to 00;00;03;00. I wonder if I made chapter 1 to run to the end of the timeline. Probably would just set the entire timeline to one chapter.

I did make a copy of the one main timeline and renamed it and removed the designated chapter numbers, but Encore read it as requiring additional space and a double layer diskette.

The learning curve has been “healthy”, but I cannot seem to solve this last question of how in addition to playing each chapter separately, I can have the play-all function play the entire timeline at the same time.

Thanks so much for your interest to help.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Followup question is how do I get all of the chapters to play continuously for Button 5.
B

[William McQueen] “I have a single menu with five items.

Items 1-4
I want each of these to play 1 chapter and only 1 designated chapter.

I have connected each of the buttons as linked with a chapter marker in the timeline, but instead of ending at the end of the chapter I’ve linked to, the DVD continues to play on to all subsequent chapters.

How do I get each selected chapter to end at it own natural end and return to the menu?

I can’t seem to make a chapter an asset.

Thanks for your help,
Bill in Toronto”

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks,Lance.

I found some hand movement of the dancers I could match, so it looks like that the sync will work.

Your help has been invaluable.

I’m still very surprised that PremPro can’t capture channels 3 and 4 as Final Cut does have alternatives, albeit complicated.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I am astounded: In reading some posts on Adobe Forums, I found this:

>3. Dec 30, 2010 7:58 PM in response to: mike mclenna
>Re: Importing Audio Channel 3 in CS3

>Unfortunately, Premiere Pro cannot capture channels 3 or 4 from DV >media. You will need a program called Scenalyzer for that.

This was in response to someone who knew he recorded on Channel 3 and wanted to capture in CS3.

For use in CS4, is Scenalyzer the only alternative for a fix?

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto