Button navigation on video timelines

I would like to add visible buttons on to timelines with either video or stills or both. I know that DVDSP can do it but I cannot find it in Encore where I would rather work.
This is a feature I think would rock especially with the new version coming out that lets you output a Flash presentation from Encore.
thanks
Chris

Buttons over video isn't supported in Encore 2.0. If enough users have submitted a
feature request
for it, maybe it has made its way in the upcoming version 3.0. B)
For now you can simulate the same behavior for relatively short clips by using a motion menu instead. "Relatively short" because the total of all menu content on a DVD-Video disc is limited to 1GB. (Which works out as roughly 20 minutes of video.)

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Nice solution! I'll do that... note the highlight colour will also need to be the same as the background colour to make it invisible in both selected and unselected states.
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New ARB Issue: Button navigation and Declarative States

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Ned Murphy wrote:
Select the textfield that is inside the movieclip and in the properties panel you should see a dropdown for selecting the type of textfield. If you select Dynamic and then assign an instance name to the textfield you can use that instance name in your code to assign the text when the file runs. If you were to name the textfield "tField", then the code you would use inside an instance of your movieclip named "mClip1" would be...
mClip1.tField.text = "your text";
So, if I have multiple buttons, using your example, would the code read
mClip1.tField.text = "your text";
mClip1.tField2.text = "your text2";
mClip1.tField3.text = "your text3";
mClip1.tField4.text = "your text4";
And my buttons are built inside movieclips, ie
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 > contactsButton_mc > contactsText_mc > "contacts"
can the code be put at any level, or does it need to reside on the Main Timeline to access all the movie clips' text fields?
Just in case this may be too complex to get into via this forum, if you know of any good tutorials, that would be awesome too!
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Hi, I have a client who is interested in my idea of having a button on the video track with which, when it appears, you press enter and it plays a different video track. It acts just like a menu button but appears at a certain point whilst playing a video.
I did this during my degree with great ease in DVD Studio Pro using the subtitle tracks but the company I now work for used Encore CS2 and I can't find anything anywhere which will allow me to do what, really is quite a simple request for an 'industry standard' DVD authoring programme.
Please help as this is urgent! Are we going to have to purchase DVD studio pro as well!?
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Frame Rate = 30 progressive frames per second
With properties like those you are sure to get a red line over that content since there is no project preset with that description.
But, your choice of the default NTSC DV Standard would have been mine also.
I am heading to try to get a quick look at the behavior of the sample video here in my Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1.
To be continued.
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I had to manually apply this effect at every frame in the Photoshop's Timeline, which takes a to long... I would love to do it to whole clips. What's the best workflow for that?
A way I tried w little success before was to split the clip into individual frames, (forget how to do that) & then apply a batch command to all the pics, I remember trying this method & it not working w/ Oil Paint effect.
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