Hi Bill

Also thanks for the input to you. Although I may need you to elaborate a bit more on this possibility. I've spend the morning watching a few tutorials on this subject, but I fail to see how I can use this feature to make a seamless transition between my intro and the menu.

As I understand the Button Transition feature, it calls for...

1.: A button to press, and there is obviously not a button present in my intro

2.: User interaction to make the transition happen

So could I kindly ask you to add a few more words to "the how" of making this thing work..?

Arne

Hi Roger

Well, thank you for the efford, but it didn't work for me. I have downloaded your projest and burned it, but I get black gaps between the menus and trnasitions in your project, so I asssume it's a player-thing. Strange though, because the player is a brand new LG HR570C, but it seems I'll just have to live with the black gaps...

Arne

(I'd rather not say where I'm from after our national hand ball teams 60 minutes "black gap" against Spain in Sunday afternoons final. That was SO embarrasing... )

Yes Stan - very close indeed. On a clear day I can actualy see the Swedish coast from my back yard

But let's go back to the gaps on the BluRays instead of those on the handball court for a while: I've done some further research, and although I haven't been able to establish if this applies to all BluRay players (it seems that players from Sony are an execption), it is certainly true for some - including my LG:

It seems that at least some BluRay players, when playing a menu with a loop point, cashes and plays all that is before the loop point, and then - when reaching the loop point - it cashes and plays all that is after this point. And so a black gap occurs while it cashes, and it seems those gaps are inevitable. The gaps re-occur every time the player reaches the end of the menu because it then re-cashes all that is after the loop point "from top".

I found this information on this website: www.precomposed.com. (Scroll down a bit to the "Encore BluRay loop point fix!"-headline). The site is hosted by Jon Geddes and he has apparently been working on a solution to this since January 2011. But according to his blog, he gave up in September 2012, and he expresses the hope that Adobe will solve this bug in a comming Encore 7.0-version. So it seems that we will have to wait for solution out there in the distant future, I'm afraid... And Averdahl is right: It is a player-issue, but apparently a player-issue in connection with the way Encore handles menus with loop points.

Oh, and just for the record: I did download Averdahls test sequence and burn it to a disc for testing. I'm aware of the flaws in the Encore Preview feature, so I don't trust that for testing.

Arne