Thanks for the reply Happy

My version of DVDA is Version 4.0 Build 25

Hope this helps you help me.

Mick

You can't assign an end action to a chapter. End actions happened at the end of a title (aka, "video" or "media"). A chapter marker is simply bookmark within a larger title. It's not a self-contained title in itself.

For what you want to do, open DVDA's manual or online help and search for Scene Selection. You want the section about a adding menu that returns to the scene selection menu after each chapter.

Rob

You can think of a chapter as a time-stamp/marker -- your title starts playing from there, and will continue until the video's over. But since a Title is just a list of cells (chapters) to play, you can easily create as many titles as you have chapters, and have each title start at a chapter, & end whenever you like, in this case at the end of that chapter. To do so drag your video to the menu however many times, set the start chapter in properties, set the duration using the timeline.

You can't modify the chapter/scene menus, since they all point to the same title. You probably could use cell commands in PgcEdit, but that wouldn't be the 1st choice IMHO because there's a chance of problems with all the scripting DVDA already uses.

You might find it easiest to import your video into the project tree at the root level, same as initial menu, then set chapters, so there's no question every title keeps using the same video file, chapters etc...

This sort of thing works well as long as every title uses the same cells (chapter marks) for the main video file. You don't get confused or messed-up, and neither does DVDA. I'm not sure (have never had reason to check) to see how DVDA handles it when you randomly set the start time for multiple titles all based on the same video file -- a real possibility given the method of setting both in & out times on the timeline as outlined in their manual.

If you didn't stick to existing cells (chapters) that you've already defined/placed, what happens? Does DVDA add more cells, or does it attempt to round to the nearest cell? Either way could potentially cause problems I'd think... At any rate FWIW, since in this case you don't want to play the same content twice, you want to stick to existing chapters, and IMHO the fastest and surest way to do that is ignore the manual and target the correct start chapter in Properties. It'd be great if you could define the end chapter there as well, but so far that's not a feature of DVDA, so you have to use the timeline.