Menu button to jump to previous/next chapter

Hi!
I have a Track with about 5 chapter markers.
I want to use on-screen buttons to jump to next/previous marker.
SPRM 7 stores the current chapter marker. How do I create a script that
a) adds 1 to SPRM 7 and jump to that chapter
b) subtracts 1 to SPRM 7 and jump to that chapter
Thanks in advance!

If you have a track with BOV. On screen is a left arrow and a right arrow for the buttons. If that is the case you can do as already said. Set the button commands for each arrow in each chatper.
So in chapter 1 you'll only have the right arrow (button). Targeting Chapter 2. In chapter 2 you'll have L & R arrows(buttons). L targeting Chapter 1 and R chapter 3.
You may want to use a 3rd button (which should infact be Button 1) for the middle of the two arrows so an arrow isn't selected by default...
-Jake

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I have a book with about 20 files in it. Each file is a separate chapter. On my master pages, I need two buttons: one that jumps to the next chapter and one that jumps to the previous chapter. But, those destinations are different for each document in the book.
Is there a way to be able to set up a couple of master buttons that do this, or do I need to set this up manually and never resynchronize my master pages again? I suppose I could set up 20 different master pages, and then apply the appropriate master page to the body pages of each document, but that seems excessive. I don't want 400 master pages. I just want a couple of buttons that jump to the next chapter.
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Hi, Kelly:
You can probably do this with either a dedicated TOC, index, hyperlinks, or cross-references. i haven't tested these beyond a quick experiment, so no guarantees one or more will suit your need.
* For the TOC method, you could apply a dedicated paragraph style, named for the chapter, to a paragraph in each file, then create a mini-TOC in each file that looks for the dedicated paragraph style in the next and previous files.
* For the index method, you'd need to create a dummy first-level topic in each file with a sub-level topic named for the chapter (for convenience). In each file, create an index for the book on a master page that's applied to all pages - you might need to create a based-on master page that's used by all master pages for this. When you generate the index, place it on the based-on master page, delete all entries except the chapter-named sub-entries, and synchronize it across all files in the book. This will create clickable PDF links to all chapters. In the index on each chapter's based-on master page, delete the all the entries except the two that point to the next and previous files. When you update the indexes, you'll have to delete the unwanted entries.
* For the hyperlink method, create links in each file to the next and previous file.
* For the cross-references method, create a cross-reference to the next and previous files. IDCS4 has built-in cross-references. For CS3 and CS2, you can use the free cross-reference script by Teus de Jong (search Google), or the commercial InDesign cross-references plug-in from dtptools.com, or virginiasystems.com.
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* I'm not near my IDCS4 machine, so I can't check if it can export book chapter files separately. IDCS3 only exports a book as a single PDF. Also, in IDCS3, the links in the single PDF point to the destination chapters in the same document. If your goal is to create separate PDF chapters, you'll need to modify the links to point to the correct files.
i think the TOC would be simplest to maintain, especially if you capture and include all the chapter links in every file, like a thumb-tab.
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HTH
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How to make a Previous/Next Menu

Hi there. This is my first time posting in the Adobe forums so please be patient if I don't do things correctly.
I currently have the Adobe Web Design CS5 package and all the programs that come with it, but my question is specifically about Dreamweaver. My computer is a Macbook with the latest operating system as far as I know.
I've been trying to create a next/previous menu for parts of my own personal website. It's http://www.aidenart.com . If you click on the link to the Concept Art page you should see a bunch of image thumbnails that act as links. Click on any one of those images and you're suppose to see the full image from the thumbnail in a whole new page. On the pages with the full images I would like to include, at the bottom, a jump menu so that a visitor can pick any of the pages that they might want to see (I already know how to do this part), but I would also like to include buttons which allow the visitor to visit the next image in the list and also the previous one in the list. You know, a previous and next menu. I've seen other websites using those kinds of buttons so I know it's possible somehow.
By looking at the source code of some websites and doing a bit of research on my own, I think this can be done using javascript of some kind. Maybe by using an "onClick" behaviour or something. I looked at a few different web help sites, including W3 Schools, and I still haven't found any clear cut explanations on how to make a previous/next menu. If someone could just show me the basic code for making a simple one that actual works then I could probably work from that.
I would prefer it if I didn't have to bother with the dreamweaver extenstions section because most things listed in the exchange are something you have to pay for. And for those of you who think I should just make individual links on each page, please keep in mind that I'll want to add more pages in the future. Most likely a lot of pages. I also want to be able to make previous/next menus for the comics section of my website for when I have more comic pages available, so I really need to know how to do this.
I hope that was enough information for you guys. I can try to provide code if you guys want although I'm not sure how that would help solve my current problem.

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For even smaller solutions you can look to JQuery solutions. They require minimal amounts of coding, mostly just file inclusions.
http://galleria.aino.se/
http://fancybox.net/
http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/#1
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Next Chapter button in Story...

Here's a brief description of my project:
- Dance Competition with 10 events (6 dances per event)
- Main Menu page with "Play Movie" & "Chapters" buttons
- Chapters page with 10 event buttons
I want this movie to act like those from the studios. In other words, if I simply "Play Movie" then hit the remote Menu at any time, it takes me back to the Chapter Menu. But if I play a particular event chapter from the Chapters page and then hit the remote Menu it takes me back to that particular chapter page and the event chapter I just played is highlighted. Make sense?
So I made this happen by creating 10 stories (each containing the particular event's 6 chapter marks). But if you play a particular chapter event from the chapter page, it defaults back to the main menu at the end of each story. I don't want that. I want the movie to continue, just like a regular movie would. So I put an end jump on each story that takes you to the next story. Fixed... not quite.
It does take you to the next story if you let it play to the end, but if you hit skip chapter during the last chapter mark of each stroy, NOTHING happens. You have to let the last chapter mark play through to get to the next story.
Is there a way to get around this?
Am I making things harder on myself than they need to be?
Working in DVDSP 3
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply, but it doesn't really answer my questions, or am I missing something.
Yes, the fact that you originally said "if I simply Play Movie then hit the remote Menu at any time, it takes me back to the Chapter Menu." (my emphasis)
Now if you meant instead Main Menu, then yes, my answer would be different.
You can have both, Stories is still not the correct solution in my opinion.
I'll refer you to this recent thread:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68bd01ef
Bottom line is you need scripting to remember both the menu AND the button you came from, and then to use that info to return to the proper menu/button when you push the Menu button.
The nice thing about the way I described originally? No scripting.
I guess maybe if you jump to the track itself via the Main Menu, and set the track to jump to Main Menu from the Menu key, and then make a story out of all the chapters of the track, and set the story's "chapter markers" as I described above, and access the story from the chapter menu, that could do it without scripting. But I've always used scripting.

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Using DVD Pro (version 4.2.1) for the first time, and I've discovered a lot of fun elements. Here is a question about the remote control settings.
I want people to be able to return to the +main menu+ if they want while playing the track, by pressing 'menu' (and I've found the resume feature, too). However, the track has chapters, which are assigned to 3 chapter menus. So, when they are playing a particular chapter, i want them to be able to return from it to the +chapter menu+ it came from, by pressing the 'menu' button.
However, this doesn't work: when playing the video track, pressing the 'menu' button takes me to the chapter menu assigned to that particular chapter, not the main menu that I assigned to the track.
Well, I see in the handbook that the marker remote setting takes precedence over the track setting ... so which would you find preferable:
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or
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I thought I would have the 'menu' button return to the chapter menu:: up button for faster/easier access to the main menu, for viewers just watching the video, and convenience for viewers watching a chapter.
What is the more experienced opinion?
thank you
Elizabeth

Hal MacLean wrote:... 'Stories'. If you are playing the track from your main menu, then the menu call for the track should take you back to the main menu. If you are on a chapter menu and start playback then instead of going to the chapter marker, go to a story that contains the chapter marker instead. The story can also have a menu call and end jump set.
Ahh!
The thing is, if you start a chapter playing, do you want the footage to continue to the end of the track, ....
Yes, that's exactly what i want, and as above, for the chapter in the chapter menu to return to that chapter menu
If the former, put all of your markers into a single story and set the menu call to go back to the chapter menu.
Thank you!
I had already created stories from the second track on the dvd, with each one having an end jump back to the story menu and as no one had replied to this post, i had decided to make the chapters in the main track into stories too, but wanted them to continue into the next chapter. In fact i'd already created these 11 stories, some with 2 chapters in them, when I read your post.
So i did as you said and put all the chapter markers into one story, with no end jump for the chapters, but a menu call from the story to the 'chapter' menu instead of the main menu. Much cleaner than the way i had started to do.
And it works just the way i want it to : track's menu call is to the main menu, 'chapter' menu calls are to the chapter menu. Thank you so much!
Elizabeth

Next Chapter jump

I'm finishing off a project in which I have a number of audio tracks set to still images. I had originally positioned Chapter Markers at the end of each, so you could jump back to the menu by selecting Next Chapter - but when building the project, these Chapter 2 Markers are not in GOP Boundaries, and I am unable to move them - so I have just the start (Chapter 1) for each audio track. Is it because the Video track is a still image that I'm unable to position markers anywhere else but the very start and very end?
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On the Chapter Marker have End Jump go where you want to to go (though somteims this can be "broken" by players pressing next chapter Key fast, workaround is have that Chapter Marker "disable" all remote functions and place another marker right next to it as close as possible)
Another option (probably easier for you and also keep in mind the issue above about breaking cahpters) is to add a small "slug" of audio at same rate as main audio with video (a second or so) and you should be able to place marker. The slug can be real short to accomplish moving your marker. A second should do fine

Next-chapter button behavior at the end of a track

This is probably a silly question.
When the DVD is on the last chapter of a track, from then on I want next-chapter button to return the user to the menu screen. When I don't do anything special to the settings, DVDSP's simulation does nothing when I press the next-chapter button. But when I play the DVD back on a set-top player, pressing next-chapter begins playing a seemingly random other track. That's certainly not what I want.
How can I set the next-chapter button to return to the menu?

Press F3 to get to advanced layout
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Paul.
The trouble I had was the "Abnormal Condition" error when hitting the menu remote button in preview.
There was no problem with Prev/Next buttons though.
I tried burning a disc too, just to check if it would burn true & just played up in preview - but no dice. What happened was the player froze up solid after pressing the menu remote.
I did create another project where the chapter playlists numbered around 28 from a single timeline, and this actually worked as it should do, so I suspect an issue in Encore's internal stacks where this is all addressed.
I had to use a different application in the end.
I believe the reason yours is still failing is simply because despite having 5 timelines, you are still well over the number of chapter playlists that seem to be available.
It's a nasty bug - but apparently a fix is in the works. Hopefully we will see this as a maintenance release - we got these with both earlier versions (1.01 from 1.0, and 1.5.1 from 1.5) so I am hoping it will happen.
There are a couple of issues I have noticed - although this is so far the only one I cannot work around in my projects.
One thing has just occurred to me that might help you here.
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bhgallen,
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I'm using other HAT previously, but switch to RoboHelp
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As it happens I am investigating something like this right
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I made a couple of small images (actually I grabbed the
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Hi, I'd consider myself an advanced DVDSP user, I've used my own problem solving on this one and was hoping it is a known program glitch...anyone seen it before?
My main menu has four buttons linking to sub menus. When one of those buttons is selected it will play the video transition properly but then jump to a menu that has the background of a different menu, but the buttons are all screwed up. The buttons jump to various places throughout the DVD with no rhme or reason.
After my problem solving didn't turn anything up, I crossed it off as a freak incident and rebuilt the menu...which solved the problem. But then the same thing happened to another menu.
One noticible detail...everything works great in the inspector, the problem only occurs upon building it and viewing the video_TS folder in DVD Player or from the burned disc on a standard player.
Any thoughts?
I've got to finish this up and record to DLT...I'm a little nervous about getting back the pressed discs with some random problem that didn't show up elsewhere.
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You still don't have an answer?? Give us a chance! This is a voluntary group you know - all users of the software just like you. Between your first post in this thread and the second is less than half an hour.
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I have a single overriding need in Encore. All other enhancements are secondary.
Problem: If you change Premiere chapter points in a sequence, the Encore menu buttons lose all the chapter point links when the sequence is reloaded.
Let's look at the work flow for a real world production situation.
I create a Premiere sequence with 16 sequence markers as chapter points. In Encore, I create a timeline using the encoded Premiere sequence. I then link buttons in a menu to the chapter points in the timeline. My customer reviews the proto and invariably wants the following changes:
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2) Move existing chapter points.
3) Add or remove some footage from the Premiere sequence.
Ideally, I should be able to add or move chapter points in the Premiere sequence including adding or removing footage. Upon entering Encore, Encore should realize from the date of the encoded m2v and wav sequence files used by the Encore timeline that something has changed and reload the modified files into the timeline. By looking at the chapter names in the Premiere sequence, Encore should match the chapter names in the menu buttons with the Premiere chapter names. Encore should then assume that the Premiere chapter points have moved and accordingly have the menu button point to the new location on the timeline (at the appropriate GOP location).

Use the edit original command.
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