Strange that, I had to make some compromises too, even after a LOT of faffing around.
I believe the antiquated DVD menu system (which has to be fully backward compatible with even first gen DVD players), does leave a lot to be desired. Its like trying to cram a 16 bit program into a 4 bit system in some ways, hence the glitches and "I give-up"s by us folk :-) As Ewe says, there are ways around the system, to get almost what you really want, but having to re think a whole strategy you've spent ages on, does make one slightly annoyed sometimes. Neil. On 7 December 2012 07:36, Uwe Soltau <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > Lee, > > I have just made a DVD with the same type of play configuration. > > For "play all" you create a chapter playlist including all chapters. > The chapter playlist will disregard any end action set to the individual > chapters and play from beginning to end. > You could actually do the same for a sub menu for one artist obviously > only including the chapters for his part. > You will have to set an end action for the chapter playlist. > > To play individual songs (chapters) you have to specify the end action for > each chapter which you would want to be the sub-menu. > When the sub-menu comes up the next song will not be highlighted as you > would want to select any of the songs manually. > > As far as motion backgrounds and animated buttons are concerned I have > found that that can get confusing if overdone. > > Good luck > > Uwe > > > > Here's one I struggled with, trying to do what I thought would be a > > straight > > forward task. Imagine having a video of, say, a concert consisting of 3 > > artists each doing 10 pieces. You want to put that on a DVD. You want > > a top > > level menu with four buttons, 3 for the artists and 1 as a play entire > > concert. You want three sub-menus, 1 for each artist with a button for > > each > > song plus that artist's play-all. The user should be able to play > > either the > > entire concert, or only the works of a single artist, or only a single > > song > > of a given artist. When a single song is completed, the DVD should > display > > the sub-menu with the next song highlighted. But if that same song is > > played > > from a play-all button it has to go immediately to the next song. > > Naturally > > there will be motion backgrounds/audio on each submenu and the top level > > menu. > > > > Finally I figured something usable(but had to accept a few > > compromises). It > > is so complicated that I cannot remember how to do it, therefore I had to > > make a diagram depicting all the connections one has to make. I > > haven't seen > > how to do this in a help file or a video tutorial. If you screw up ever > so > > subtly with a wrong EA between the timeline, playlists, or button > > links, the > > single song buttons may work but not the play-all's, or the play-all > > buttons > > may work but not the singles, or there will be a long delay between > > play-all > > items; that is, play-all won't play as if it is a single video file. I > > don't > > think I ever got everything to work perfectly! > > > > Lee > > > > > > > > > > You must be very clever to learn Encore in a couple of hours. > > Yes, to learn how to simply burn a DVD is not all that involved but if > > you get to more advanced things like button routing, chapter playlists, > > subtitle colours etc., one surely needs a bit more time than that, at > > least I would. > > > > And yes, everything one knows is easy :-) > > > > Uwe > > > I learned Encore via YouTube tutorials in a couple of hours, its quite > > > simple when you know what's what :-) > > > > > > Neil. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
