May be End Action Question

[philwright11]

I did a ton of this as amiture three years ago, and I am strating back up. My project is one hour long, set to medium quality, and File\check project said everything good. I checked the Button routings and evrything looked good, so I burned a DVD.

Problem is that when I go to the Sub-Menu to my Chapter list, and start Chapter ONE playing, thats where I have failed. The movie starts fine, and I can PAUSE it and PLAY it and Pause it just fine. But while playing, if I hit the STOP button, the movie stops and doesn't go anywhere. If I hit the PLAY button, it will go back to Sub-Menu.

(the folowing is for the button in question, and I have not tried any other buttons) Under Properties, here are the settings:

Menu\ Basic\ End Action: link to MainMenu, Override: Not set, Auto Route Buttons.

Button\ Basic \Link: back to itself, Override: back to Sub-Menu

Thanks

[DB83]

Now where is my crystal-ball that tells me, or anyone else reading this, what program you are using.

But what do you expect after hitting 'stop' + 'play'. Check a commercial dvd and your scenario. It will go back to the menu. Where else should it go ?

[philwright11]

I am sorry. I somehow edited out this: I made my original timeline in Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro, and sent to CS3 Encore for menus and DVD burning. Taking a drug called Revlimid that makes me stupid on occasions.

>>But what do you expect after hitting 'stop'+'play'. Check a commercial dvd and your scenario. It will go back to the menu.Where else should it go ?

You are of course right. I guess I expected at that point to be able to be shown an option or something. Or after a second or two after the STOP button is hit, it routes back to the previous menu. Any thoughts on it routing back to previous menu after hitting the STOP button once.

I don't remember one, but have you ever put an EXIT botton on a MAIN menu on a DVD?

Thanks

[philwright11]

And I guess what I am trying to say if you are sitting down watching it on TV and the STOP button is hit, on mine it will come up and say (which I know is the Player's Software) if you hit STOP again the disk will stop and exit or something like that.

I understand there are a lot more buttons on the commercial remote than Encores REVIEW Project's set of controls, but .... how is a person to know what to do when he hits the STOP button that if he hits the PLAY button the DVD will exit to the MENU? Do you see what I mean?

[SLK001]

What you are talking about (I think) is controlled by the DVD player itself - not the disc.

[DB83]

What you are seeing is the 'resume' function of the player >> press stop once to leave resume 'on' then press 'play' and the disk resumes playing at the point where the stop button was pressed. Kinda avoids the swearing when you accidentally hit the stop button. Press stop twice and resume turns off. Press play and you get the menu (or first play or whatever the disk is authored for)

My own disks work in this way and the 'end action' whether it be the full play or a chapter is 'return to menu'.

But a resume function can not return to a menu unless, I suspect, you were actually on a menu when you pressed the stop key.

[philwright11]

i understand now. You have been very very helpful. Thanks a ton

[philwright11]

My burn was sucessful, but when I activated my submenu on the TV and I chose the first of five clips to play, when it got to the end of that clip it went to the next clip without me hittling the down arrow to activate the next clip. That is the way my other "play all clip" is supposed to do, not this setup.

So how do you hit a button to play and when it gets though with that clip it just goes back to the sub-menu instead of the next clip?

Thanks

[mazinz]

My burn was sucessful, but when I activated my submenu on the TV and I chose the first of five clips to play, when it got to the end of that clip it went to the next clip without me hittling the down arrow to activate the next clip. That is the way my other "play all clip" is supposed to do, not this setup.

So how do you hit a button to play and when it gets though with that clip it just goes back to the sub-menu instead of the next clip?

Thanks

here this post I made a while back should help you out some:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/327277-question-about-adding-prohibited-user-option...nt-pgc-jumping)

[DB83]

In your first post you talkd about 'chapters'. Now you talk about 'clips'.

If they are 'chapters' in the usual sense of the word then the next one should play as soon as the previous one ended since a chapter point is just an entry point within one title. That being said, it is possible to edit the title to have exit points. Whether you can do that in encore I do not know. I do doubt it though.

'Clips' are different. Each one is a title in its own right and will have an entry point and an end action - normally back to a menu. If you want to force the end action to another 'clip' then it has to be specifically programed for. The easiest way to do that is to create a playlist.

A 'Play All' in that scenario is also just a playlist.

[philwright11]

Again I apologize for not using the correct terms. My setup is as follows: MainMenu has two buttons, PLAY ALL CHAPTERS which links to the one Timeline that I have and when activated it plays the entire Timeline and returns to MainMenu when it ends as directed.

The second Main Menu Button points to the SubMenu. When that comes up, the Chapter Buttons are displayed. In Encore CS3, when you then activate one Chapter button, it is supposed to just play that one Chapter and end and do "something". Do you know a way to direct Encore to do this?

Thanks

[DB83]

As I said earlier, the behaviour of a chapter playing and then running to the next chapter is the usual one. Again, check any commercial dvd with chapter selections and see what happens.

So what you are trying to do with just chapters is not the norm. This really needs someone now with good experience of using Encore. I would suggest two things.

1. Edit your topic title (if you can) to something like "Encore CS3 problem with Chapter End Action". Then you are more likely to get the attention of an Encore user.

2. Take a look at this:

http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chapter-marker-problem

Your issue appears to be discussed. The solution appears far from a simple one.