PLAY ALL - simple? Or no?

Simple SD dvd, 3 tracks, one = 79 min, 1 = 3 min, 1 = 4 min...client also wants a PLAY ALL button. It's about 4.4 GB now. How do I make a PLAY ALL option without causing problems for the end jump on the tracks? How to make a PLAY ALL button/option?
Thanks
K

You cannot use a story structure when you have three different tracks. Stories are sub-sets of the track they are in, and cannot have chapters from different tracks added to them.
You also don't need to go back to FCP - all you have to do, assuming your footage is all the same format (if you have some 4:3 and some 16:9 then you will need to either use a scripted solution or go back to FCP) is take the footage from each track and add it to a single track, one section after the other. You've already compressed it, so just drop all three MPEG files into the same track.
You can then add a chapter marker at the end of the clips (no need for the end of the last one) and use a story structure to get a play all. There are two ways to do this... but in your case you should add all of the chapter markers for the ends of the clips into a single story, and set the menu call and end jump for the story. Your menu then needs a button that points to the story container (and not the track or any chapter marker). The chapters within the story will play back, and the end jump for the story will take place when they all have played back.
As for your last question - yes, you can do this, but you'll need to script it. it's not particularly hard to do, but if you've not done any scripting then I'd go with the story based method above. If you want to see the scripted solution, go back to here: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-3/
or here for a longer (but certainly simpler) method: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-1/

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