Chapter 7. Links and DVD Navigation
Now that you have used Adobe Encore DVD to create timelines from your imported clips and design DVD menus, it’s time to link the menus and timelines together and assemble the navigational flow of your disc. You already know that you can link from buttons to menus, from menus to clips, from menus to other menus, and from clips to other clips. However, you can do much more than that. You can also use links to set the audio and subtitle tracks that your timelines will use. You can get creative with the override links we saw earlier by defining alternate paths that reuse the material in your project. You can even present clips in different ways by creating playlists that iterate through clips in different orders.
In addition, Encore provides powerful tools for checking your project’s navigational design. You can review list views of your project assets, including menus, buttons, timelines, and chapters. And you can use the Check Project tool to have Encore examine your navigational structure for broken or missing links.
Making Links
Navigational links on a DVD are more than just menus and buttons. Links can be explicitly selected by the viewer from a menu, can default at the end of playback, or can activate automatically after a period of time. Links can also set local ...
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