"broken Button" - how to troubleshoot ?

DaveM2 wrote on 7/18/2009, 2:55 PM
In the Project Overview window, on a menu link to a segment of some media (media marked with I/O), I see the term "Broken Chapter" after the title name.

When I run Prepare Disk or Burn Disk, I get error messages - "One or more buttons on menu are broken."

I open help and search for "broken chapter" and I see no reference anywhere to "Broken Chapter"

I navigate clip info in Project Overview and on the timeline I view the correct segment - lit up between the I/O marks. I expand the timeline scale and I see no other marks.

I have also set some markers on the timeline that mark the start of each chapter (segment) and I named the marker for that chapter's name.

So I have been told twice by the program that i have a broken button - but can find directions as to how to fix those broke buttons. Now it should not be too hard to do that - but I can't figure it out.

Comments

bStro wrote on 7/18/2009, 4:49 PM
It means that you created that menu based on a set of chapter markers and then (whether intentionally or accidentally) deleted one or more of those markers. A scene selection is not dynamic -- DVDA doesn't automatically remove a chapter's button when a marker is removed.

(Somewhat frustratingly, the menu also doesn't realize which marker was removed since scene selection buttons reference the chapter markers by number, not by point in time. If, for example, you create a scene selection menu based on a media with chapters 1, 2, and 3 and later decide to delete chapter marker #1, then #2 becomes #1, and #3 becomes #2. Since DVDA can still find "#1" and "#2", it will say that #3 is broken -- even though, technically, it's the original #1 that's now gone. But I digress...)

To fix it, navigate to that scene selection menu and select the "broken" button -- either in the Project Overview window or on the menu itself -- and go to the Action tab of the Button Properties window. There, you should see that the Destination Chapter setting says "Broken chapter." Select that and change it to the correct chapter. If you already have a button for each chapter, then you don't need the button; just delete it.

If none of this sounds relevant, we'll need more info.

Rob
DaveM2 wrote on 7/18/2009, 8:31 PM
Rob - thanks - I think it sounds relevant - I will just give it a try and see if I understand it, and if I don't, I will try to get more specific.
DaveM2 wrote on 7/19/2009, 2:54 PM
Rob - worked great - only wished the rendering didn't take so long - 9 hours for a 1.5 hour dvd.. And it was a m2v file to start with. The quality on the finished dvd was great. Any way
to adjust audio in DVDA - or is that always based on the audio level of the selected file ?