Adobe Encore 2.0 question

[DAG123]

I have been searching the forums with no luck for my question. The help files are vague as well.

I want to be able to create a DVD with Chapter end points that return the viewer to the main menu. Easy enough, but I also want a PLAY ALL button on the main menu that allows all the chapters to play though...

First is this acheivable in Encore?
Second, any one have any suggestions on how I would do it?

Thanks in advance

[aedipuss]

i've done it with dvdlab pro but i don't know if encore can. what you need to be able to do is to edit the vm commands and be able to insert a splitter in between movie segments. make each chapter a separate movie. have a menu that selects play all or goes to one that allows chapter selection. edit the vm commands of the menus and add a marker, say for the first menu "set GPRM0 = 0" and in the second menu "set GPRM0 = 1". then add splitters after each movie chapter with a simple if/then vm command like "if GPRM0 == 1" then hook back to chapter selection menu. if not than connect to next chapter.

[mike909]

I assume each chapter is a different video then? (not one video with 'chapter points'?) Why can't you just create a playlist of all the 'chapters' in order, and then have the 'play all' button which point to that playlist?
Maybe I don't correctly understand the problem...let me know if that works for you.

[aedipuss]

the problem is getting the movie to stop after one chapter and returning to a menu rather than continuing on to the rest of the chapters as it would with a chapter selection menu while still having the ablity to play all if so desired.

[mike909]

So...you have a chapter selection menu which returns the user to the main menu after a chapter is played...along with a 'play all' button which play's through all the chapters normally. Can't you just make the 'end action' of each chapther the menu? That, along with a playlist tied to a play-all button would do the trick I think.

[Dj Petro]

There is a movie that demos the override function. Maybe this will help.

http://www.adobeevangelists.com/encore/index.html

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[mike909]

Good call Petro...that video explains it pefectly I believe.

[DAG123]

Thanks Mike909

Your suggestions sound like they will do what I want. I will give it a go this evening.

[mike909]

NP,
Thank's to Petro because I couldn't remember the correct terminology...but 'end action' & 'override' are the two fields you will want to be concerned with when putting together the menu.

[DAG123]

I am familiar with the 'end action' function as I use them to make each chapter return to the main menu, that was my problem...when I had the PLAY ALL button link to the playlist of all my AVI's or chapters, they would invoke this end action and return to the main menu.

I was thinking of making a separate avi with all chapters included in a single file, that would be a workaround...but then I run out of space...

There should be a dialog box asking what a person wants...one box to click that allows you to set up a button that plays all chapters without stopping. I suppose that what the override function does???

Thanks for the help in this matter

[mike909]

Yes, that's what the over-ride does....watch the video that Petro posted about. explains it in perfect detail.

[DAG123]

I just watched the tutorial...geeez...so simple.

Thanks DJ