Pause between inro and menu

Hi!
I have made an intro to my menu (animating the menu in).
But there is a little thing that is enoying. The pause between the intro and the menu that happends when the dvd are played on a dvd player.
I have heard about something that is called VTS (Video Title Set)
My question is: Is this possible to configurate is Encore dvd 2??
(excuse my bad english. I did not have a dictionary right now ;-) )
About VTS (from the Apple dvd studio por manual):
VTS Editor
The VTS Editor allows you to verify and control the VTS (Video Title Set) structure of your project. Using the VTS Editor, you are able to manually assign elements to VTS blocks. This makes it possible for you to optimize the final DVDs layout so that when its played there are minimum pauses due to the player having to move between elements in different parts of the disc.
When you play a DVD and a jump must occur, such as when a menu button is selected that jumps to a tracks chapter marker, there is a slight pause while the DVD players laser locates where to jump to on the disc.
- If the track is in a different VTS block than the menu, the laser must first jump to the video manager files, and from there on to the tracks VTS.
- If the track is in the same VTS block as the menu, the laser is able to go directly to the track.
You can improve a discs playback performance by keeping related elements together whenever possible. For example, you should place the scripts used with a specific track in the same VTS as the track.
Since menus often link to multiple tracks or slideshows, you will not be able to keep them together with everything they can jump to. However, you can minimize the time a DVD player spends jumping from the menu to the video manager files by keeping the menus in the first VTS, which is physically located close to the video manager files.
Anders

Anders.
You cannot configure projects in quite this manner with EncoreDVD - and in all honesty, this is pure sophistry on Apple's part.
The way Encore works is to turn the timelines into VTS
i in the order in which you create the timelines in your project.
This cannot be altered later, but would make a fine feature request
http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html
There will
i always
be a slight lag between a movie and a menu, no matter what application you author in - even Scenarist has this, as the player is jumping from a Movie into Menu Space. In Encore, you can minimize this lag by creating the intro sequence as a motion menu, and then using a transition to the main menu - this would keep both your intro and the main menu in Menu Space, and very close together indeed.
It's probably the best solution for you - much better than DVDSP, that's for sure!

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