End action confussion!!!

seattlebk wrote on 9/27/2005, 11:56 AM
So i am probably over thinking it but i just don't have time to figure it out so my question to all is as follows.

I have imported media and set chapter points (from whithin DVDARCH) i then created a scene selection menu from that media. (19 chapters total) My problem is that now i am setting the end actions for each chapter. What i need to do do is after each chapter, i need it to link back to the scene selction menu and highlight the next chapter.( so basically chapter 3 would end, return to the menu and the button for chapter 4 would be highlighted)

I did the following already:

I open the timeline displaying the chapter markers, i choose chapter 1 in my navigation pane to the left then i go back to the timeline and drag the yellow marker at the end of the timeline down to the chapter 2 marker so that only the area between chapters 1 and 2 are highlighted. I set the desination link to the next chapter in this case chapter 3 button on the scene selection menu then i go and preview the job but for some reason, it just continues past my marker on to the next chapter rather than stopping and returning to the menu page. Sorry for the long discription but hopfully it helps in getting a good answer. Please feel free to suggest even the simplest idea as i may have simply overlooked something.

Thanks

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ScottW wrote on 9/27/2005, 1:15 PM
That's not how scene selection normally works on a DVD, so you'll need to go a different route....

You need to either render each chapter as its own seperate file, or include the single movie in the project multiple times and set the in/out points appropriately for each unique instance of the movie.

So, for chapter one, you pull the movie in and set the in/out points for chapter 1. For chapter 2, you include the movie again and set in/out points for Chapter 2, etc.

DVDA is smart enough that the movie will only be put on the disk a single time.

If you want to be able to play the entire movie, just include it again, this time don't set an in/out point.

--Scott
seattlebk wrote on 9/27/2005, 1:49 PM
Yep! That was the fix! What is sad, is that i actually figured that out a while ago and just plain forgot how i did it. Thanks for the response.
Deadline met!

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