Hi There!
Any help appreciated on this one.
I have successfully built an audio select menu which has "BAND AUDIO" button 1, "DIRECTORS COMMENTARY" button 2, "PLAY MOVIE" button 3 and "BACK" button 4.

This is a sub menu as I have a main menu which can play the movie, or "select tracks" menu for induvudal chapters etc.

What I am trying to do is just within the Audio Select menu (above) that when you select an audio track (either band - linked to audio track 1 in timeline or Directors commentary, linked to audio track 2 in timeline) it THEN highlights the PLAY MOVIE button.

At present everything is fine excpet when you select the audio track you want it starts to play the movie. I have managed to get it to stay IN the menu by selecting "link back to here" in the lin kproperties.....but it stays on the button you just chose. I want it, like commercial DVD's, to sleect the relevant audio track, and then automatically switch to highlight the "PLAY MOVIE" button.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Hi and welcome to the forums

What you could do is to have the audio button or buttons set to auto activate to an identical menu that has the play button highlighted, you just need to spend a wee bit more time in setting up and double checking all the navigation..

Thanks for the reply Doogs. If I understand you right I have an identical menu that has the PLAY MOVIE button defualted as the highlighted....if that is the case, how do i get the aduio buttons to select the relevant audio track in the timeline and THEN route to the identical menu?

good point..

I may have jumped in to quick without looking at your question properly (senior momment for me..again).

I have tried to figur eout how this is done on commercial DVD's and can only think it's elements of authoring software just not available in Encore?

even the big inhouse DVD makers use cheats and such like to achieve their effects...
There will be a workaround for it I am sure...

Why do you need to do that? Just set the link for the PLAY MOVIE button on the duplicate menu to point to the timeline and the alternate audio track by using the Specify Link... option.

When you change audio tracks on most commercial DVDs, they auto-highlight (in a duplicate menu) the subtitle selection of "None" and when you press Enter on the remote for that selection, you are taken to a third duplicate menu with "Return to Movie" or "Main Menu" highlighted. The RTM button launches the movie with the alternate audio track, and the MM button takes you to a duplicate of the Main Menu, which will be set up with the necessary links to maintain the flow of the program with the previously selected alternate audio track. That means dupes of all the scene selection menus as well.

You really need to draw a flowchart by hand to get this navigation sorted before attempting to link up all of the menus.

Heh, thanks for the info.
I am pretty sure I understand....however, to throw another curve ball....if I wanted my alternate commentary audio track to also AUTOMATICALLY switch to a subtitle track too, how would this be achieved, within Encore?
I want tidbits of trivia and info to appear on subtitle WHILE watching with the audio commentary on, but I dont want viewers to have to select a subtitle menu, I want it to come when you select the auido commentary. Is this possible?

If I understand correctly, this should be easy. Change the button link that selects the alternate commentary track to also select the subtitle track. Do this with the Specify Link option.