9 Replies Latest reply: Mar 18, 2011 10:28 AM by ycart1299 RSS

    Manual Advance not working

    ycart1299 Community Member

      I am building a DVD with a mix of slides and videos. I don't want the slides to auto advance, but only advance when the user clicks forward. I have selected all the slides and hit the manual advance button on the slide show properties panel, as well as selecting individual slides and check the manual advance button on the slide properties as well. Neither option seems to work. Am i missing something? Any help or guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

        • 1. Re: Manual Advance not working
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          What version of Encore?  (I don't think it matters, but good form to know.)

           

          Are you viewing this in Encore preview, building to a folder and viewing on computer, or burning a disk and testing?

          • 2. Re: Manual Advance not working
            ycart1299 Community Member

            CS4.

            viewing in preview, but also building to DVD and Image and viewing on external DVD player and media player through laptop. (tried both ways). Haven't tried building to a folder option.

            • 3. Re: Manual Advance not working
              Stan Jones CommunityMVP

              I'm playing with CS5 to test this.

               

              I don't do slideshows in Encore.  Many people do not like the feature, and complain about its limitations.

               

              I created a test slideshow with only 3 slides.  The correct way to set manual advance for the whole slideshow is to select NO slides, and then set manual advance for the slideshow.  However, when I do this, what I see in Encore preview is slide 1 manual advance, the rest not, and the end action of the slideshow does not execute.

               

              When I build to a folder (just a test method for such a tiny project), VLC media player plays slide one and "hangs."  "Next" does not move to the next slide, and the slideshow never ends or advances.

               

              The same folder played using windows media player works as it should: each slide is manual advance, and advancing the final slide executes the end action.

               

              I have not tried burning to a disk, since very small projects like this often do not play correctly on a player.

              • 4. Re: Manual Advance not working
                Stan Jones CommunityMVP

                Well, always one for an experiment, I burned my little 650Kb DVD to a  DVD+RW.  Performed correctly played from a Sony player.

                • 5. Re: Manual Advance not working
                  ycart1299 Community Member

                  Our DVDs are based on incorporating slides with video, so would you recommend NOT using Encore to author and switching to Studio Pro since the slideshow feature doesn't not work properly? It seems like Adobe would have addressed this problem in later versions of the software if indeed the manual advance feature does not work as it should. I still feel like i am missing something, even though i have read and built the slideshows exactly as the adobe help manual suggests. Frustrating. If anyone else has any ideas, let me know. Thanks!

                  • 6. Re: Manual Advance not working
                    Stan Jones CommunityMVP

                    Well, I don't use the slideshow feature, but in my short test, it worked.  What you described (selecting all or selecting some) is not the method from the manual (select none).  I agree it should work with a select all.

                     

                    Many users have concluded as you have, that Encore is not the product for slideshows.  They often use Premiere, but only when they do not need autoadvance.

                     

                    So you are playing a video timeline, end action goes to a slideshow, end action to a video, etc?  (Or, I assume same difference a playlist with a mixture of video and slideshows.)  And  you want the slideshows to manual advance?  I'll give it a try.

                    • 7. Re: Manual Advance not working
                      ycart1299 Community Member

                      Hi Stan, thanks for your help. yes you are correct a slideshow will play, then a video, back to another slideshow, video, etc. they are set up in playlists. The presentations are for performance training, so the slides are ppt slides that are held still until the instructor advances to the next bit. mixed in with the slides are example scenario videos.

                      • 8. Re: Manual Advance not working
                        Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                        You might want to look into ProShow's Producer. It's a SlideShow production app., and offers a lot more power for SlideShows, than does the rudimentary SlideShow in Encore. As Stanley pointed out, many feel that the En SlideShow feature is a bit of an after throught, and not well implemented.

                         

                        Good luck,

                         

                        Hunt

                        • 9. Re: Manual Advance not working
                          ycart1299 Community Member

                          Thanks guys, will check out ProShow Producer and some other options.