VERY New to Encore....End Action Not Set?

I just upgraded (today) to Premiere CS5. I've been able to get to the point of burning my project and "Check Project" found an error. It was "End Action not set" for my sequence. I'm not 100% what this means (and a search turned up 370 items, leaving me overwhelmed).
Is it asking what I want to happen after the last chapter in the sequence does (like return to the Menu default) or is it asking me what will follow after playing chapter one in my sequence? I really doubt it is the last option but seeing as it is showing a still form a scene from chapter one I want to be sure that I link the correct thing from the get go.
Don't bash me, I know I'm stupid!

In the Check Project Message box, Dbl-click on that error/warning message, so that you can see exactly where it found the issue.
In this case, there is an Asset, probably a Timeline, with no End Action set. This End Action tells the DVD player what to do next, like Return to Last Menu. Note: you can have an End Action on several different Assets, like Playlists and Chapter Playlists. Also note: if one has a Playlist with an End Action, and in that Playlist are Timelines with their own End Actions, the End Action of the Playlist takes precedence, and Check Project will issue a warning message (looks like an error message, but is just informing you of this precedence) to that effect. So long as that is what you want, just ignore that notification.
End Actions tell the DVD player what to do next. As mentioned above, it could be to Return to Last Menu, it could be to Go to another Menu, and you can even, with Specify Link and the drop-down, tell it to go to a Menu with a particular Button highlighted. It could also be used to make a Timeline Loop, where you would set its End Action back to the beginning of that Timeline. You could also set one Timeline's End Action to go to another Timeline. Lots of possibilities.
Remember that I told you Encore was more involved, than PrE's semi-auto authoring. Do not be overwhelmed, but just take it slowly. Soon, when you get the "lay of the land" down, you will greatly appreciate the new power and control that you have. Being overwhelmed will be replaced by great joy, and you will feel like a god.
I would like to make one recommendation, and you WILL thank me later: Jeff Bellune wrote a great book, The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, Focal Press, ISBN 0-240-52004-1. Do not be put off by the title and the version, EncoreDVD 2.0 (I know you have CS5). Everything in that book applies 100% to Encore CS5. Now, CS5 has added some "stuff," that will NOT be in the book, but this forum and the Help files will step you though those. Jeff's book will take you through all of the aspects of Encore and navigating the DVD-specs. He'll also teach you how to create illusions, that seem to override the DVD-specs. Of course we cannot do that, but the user will think that we have. This book will soon become your go-to for almost everything in Encore.
Good luck,
Hunt

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I am setting up a Blu-Ray DVD in Encore. I have a project on a Premiere Pro CS 5.5 Timeline, which is 2 and a half hours long with 24 Encore chapters in it. I have not yet Encoded it in Media Encoder as of yet.
I am setting up all my menus and buttons in Encore so all I have to do is link the buttons to them main project when I do encode it and then I can just Check it and Burn it.
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2) "End action not set." What does this mean? Will this go away once I add my whole project into Encore and I link up all of the buttons to the timeline?
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2) End action not set.
Both of these suggest that you created a timeline in the Encore project, perhaps with no "asset" in it.
Yes, ignore both messages for now. But I prefer creating the timeline after, or along with, importing the asset into the Encore project.
If you believe you have not created a timeline, post a screenshot of your "flowchart."

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-Ramesh.

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Until you do that, you will struggle with your disc's navigation.
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Hi.
Encore 4.0.1.048
I noticed that the end action of a menu doesn't work properly. It pounts to a timeline, which never shows.
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1. CyberLink PowerDVD 9 Ultra
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Strange,
it works on my BR.
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At C:\Users\INAFN\Documents\codeBin\IsoGenerator.ps1:25 char:1
+ New-CMTaskSequenceMedia -BootableMediaOption -MediaPath c:\temp\ISOName.iso -BootIm ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-CMTaskSequenceMedia], NullReferenceException
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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