Hi,

I've done a search on changing audio tracks, and know the theory behind it, and have even got it to work... but now I'm trying to do something that seems to involve more than just "click on 'Specify Link' and selecting the audio track".

I have an Adobe Encore project which consists of a single video track and 2 audio tracks.

Audio track #1 is a mix of music and voice over. This is the default track.
Audio track #2 is music only, no voice over.

I have 4 buttons on my MAIN menu:
Button #1: Plays the video (Linked to MainMovie, No Change in Audio)
Button #2: Voice Over ON (Linked back to Button #1, Sets Audio to track #1)
Button #3: Voice Over OFF (Linked back to Button #1, Sets Audio to track #2)
Button #4: Chapters (Linked to Chapter List menu)

The Chapter List menu has 4 buttons on it, one for each chapter in the movie. Each button is linked to the corresponding chapter and does not change the audio.

When I preview the project, if I click on "Voice Over ON", and then play the movie, I get the movie with voice over. Good!

Similarly, when I preview the project, if I click on "Voice Over OFF", and then play the movie, I get the movie without voice over. Good!

If I click on "Voice Over ON", click on the Chapters button, then select a chapter from the sub-menu, the audio ALWAYS defaults to track #2 (no voice over).

I want the "Voice Over" buttons to set the audio track globally so that if the voice over track is selected, it'll stay on when I go to the chapter menu, and if it's turned off, it'll stay off. Is there a way of doing that?

Thanks,

Julian

See if this helps:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/EncoreDVD/4.0/...38582db29-7e88a

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, that's where I started! I followed those directions, and still can't get the audio track selection to "stick". Encore seems to ignore that I've changed audio tracks as soon as I navigate away from the main menu and go to the "Chapters List" menu. Even though each chapter button's audio setting says "No Change", Encore plays audio track #2.

When I select audio track #1, it'll play the movie with audio track #1.
When I select audio track #2, it'll play the movie with audio track #2.
When I select audio track #1 and go to the chapter list menu and select a chapter, it ALWAYS plays with audio track #2.

It's weird.

Do you have any overrides set?

Can you post a link to a screenshot of your flowchart?

No overrides.

And sure, I'll upload a screen shot of the flowchart... but I'm at work right now, so I'll have to do it when I get home.

Thanks for the (continuing) help.

Julian

I found the solution, thanks to you, JeffB! I've never really looked at the flowchart before, thinking it was really just a cool gimmick, but in this case, it immediately showed where my error was. When I cobbled this page together, I copied the button for the Chapters List menu from an earlier version. This button linked to the chapter list menu, but had Audio Track #2 set. So, each chapter played with audio track #2 because each individual chapter's audio was set to "No Change"!

The "before" screenshot is shown below. You can clearly see it says "A2,B1". I've since changed it so that its audio properties are set to "No Change" and it works perfectly.

Thanks again,

Julian

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I figured something like that had happened. Glad you got it sorted.