Storyline and return button issues

Question

I've been trying, with little success, to create a menu with multiple tracks and markers in the tracks. I have about 20 tracks with markers inside each track. The client wants a play all function, and then be able to go to specific marker points. Now here is where I'm having a problem. They would like to be able to go to a specific marker and play then, when that marker gets to the next marker to stop and go back to the menu you started at. I have been trying to create this but can't et the marker to stop at the next marker and return to the menu. Also I need the preceding marker to function like the last. Also I'm having problems creating a return from the tracks to the menu they selected from. I hope I explained this well enough. If not I will try again.

Answer 1

This is a classic scenario with DVDs. You have multiple menus that access the same tracks, you need to play individual clips, also play all clips AND get back to the correct menu each time.
Much can be accomplished with stories and chapter markers. There are two main approaches:
1) put end jumps on each chapter marker to go back to the correct menu and button but ONLY if the chapter itself is reached from a single menu. Add a single story and put ALL markers from the track into that. This story container can have its own end jump and menu call added - set your play all button to go to the story container (not the chapters) and the whole track will play. You can also set the track end jump and menu call as you wish.
2) Add twenty stories per track (one for each chapter) and don't put end jumps on the markers. Instead, put a single marker into a single story container, add the menu call and end jump on the story and set the buttons to play a single clip to point at the appropriate story instead. For the play all, point the button to the track itself, and not a story. Set the menu and end jump for the track to go back to the single menu it gets activated from.
However, if you have more than one menu that has buttons which play the same track (i.e. menu 1 and 2 both point to the same markers on track 1, or to the same stories) then you have a problem knowing which menu to go back to. This is only a problem if you have buttons on each menu that do access the same stories, tracks or markers somehow. In this case you MUST use scripts, or you set up a separate story on the tracks and point to those. You can have up to 98 additional stories per track if that is all you are adding to your disc, so there is massive flexibility to do a you need. Scripting will be initially harder to accomplish if it is your first go, but will ultimately save you time as there is actually less to do than if you set up loads of stories.
Have a look here:
http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/play-all-1/
and here:
http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/play-all-2/
and also here:
http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/play-all-3/
plus look here:
http://dvdstepbystep.com/passelections.php
here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/stories_dvdspstone.html
and here:
http://www.rippletraining.com/movies/kenstone/dvdsp_stories.mov
That should be more than enough to get you going!