Remotes "Menu Button" Override

I've created a wedding dvd. The menus use the loop point feature where the first 3 seconds is the transition from the previous menu. If the "Menu Button" is set to "Return to Last Menu", the transition is revealed when returning from the timeline. Not acceptable. So I then created static versions of the menus. A wedding chapter menu, and 2 reception chapter menus. Unfortunately, Last menu won't work since I didn't actually come from the static versions. I would need to actually tell the remotes "Menu Button" to go to 1 of those menus. If I set it to the "Wedding Chapters" menu but entered the timeline from a reception menu, the effect is wrong. I could make the transitions as seperate timelines, but I don't like the pauses associated with them. If a menu button override was available at the menu button level, it would work. If I press a wedding chapter button, it would set the remotes "Menu Button" to return to the wedding static menu. Same for the receptions menu buttons. The loop point feature seems to give me a smoother looking playback versus the timeline transition, which has 2 pauses, 1 into the timeline (transition), and 1 into the next menu. I really like Encore, which is the first solution I've worked with that did overrides. Very handy!! Please add the override feature to the remotes menu button.

Let the battery run down, that is what i did when this happened to mine. When it has run down fully recharge it and it should work!
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Well, I am taking about something a little different. Your link refers to what you see on your TV screen. I can get by without mirroring, its the remote i want to work better.
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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.
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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

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