Encore Blu-Ray chapter menu issue involving Blu-Ray player remote

Jimmy Pierce

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I just completed a full menu for a project which includes a 3 page chapter menu in Adobe Encore CS5.5.1. On the preview window in Encore, when I select a chapter in the chapter menu, the menu goes directly to that point in the project. Then, when the menu button is clicked on, the project stops playing, and returns to the last menu (be it chapter page 1, 2, or 3) Playing a burned Blu-Ray back on a player, the way the menu is set up now, when the "top menu" or "disc menu" button is pressed on the remote, this occurs:


As you can see, when the menu button is pressed on the Blu-Ray remote, it always goes back to the last (3rd) chapter page, even when the chapter selected was from page 1 or 2. Even when "Play Film" is pressed, and the film is playing, it goes to the last (3rd) chapter menu. It should not do this, it should return to the last menu (whatever chapter was selected, on whatever page). Each chapter menu is set up to return to the "last menu", and it works in Encore, but not on a finalized disc.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
 
Ah yes...the old not going to the last menu thing. Don't trust Encore to do this correctly. It won't. You pushed the right buttons, but Encore is broken. In order to get this to work correctly, you're going to need to make some dummy menus that will direct you to the correct menu. A little too much to get into here, but search around and you'll find some tutorials on how to do it.
Begin rant: Encore should never have tried to do too many things with the same project file, DVD, BluRay, Flash! It would have been much better if it actually followed the spec of each instead of trying to be some kind of Swiss army knife doing all things (poorly) for all delivery formats. Encore sucks at creating true BluRay projects as it's stuck trying to translate DVD standards to BluRay which just doesn't work well in the real world.
 
Thank you for the quick response, Andrius! I have read Encore is buggy. What keywords would you recommend I search for to find the correct answer?

Thanks!
 
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