Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 46)

6 Do one of the following to control what happens when the movie finishes playing:
• To have nothing happen when the movie finishes playing, leave End Jump (in the top
section of the Track Inspector) set to Not Set. Once the movie finishes playing, the DVD
player will stop. The viewer can press Play to play it again.
• To have the track play again in an infinite loop, choose the track from the End Jump
pop-up menu.
And that’s it. You might want to consider adding a few additional elements to the project
that would improve the viewer’s experience.
Adding Chapter Markers
Depending on the length of the movie, it can be very helpful for the viewer to be able
to use the DVD player’s Previous and Next buttons to quickly skip through the movie to
points you define with chapter markers.
If the movie was edited in Final Cut Pro, you can add the chapter markers at each scene
change or at other significant points in the movie. These chapter markers will automatically
import into DVD Studio Pro. See
Adding and Configuring Markers in Final Cut Pro and
Final Cut Express for more information.
You can also manually add the markers in the DVD Studio Pro Track Editor. Even just
placing markers every five or ten minutes can help the viewer locate specific parts of the
movie. See
Working with Markers for more information.
Adding a Menu
This goes a bit against the general idea of a simple DVD project, but it might be worth
adding a simple menu so that the viewing experience once the movie finishes playing is
a bit better. For example, you could leave the track set as the First Play element but have
the track jump to a menu once it finishes playing. The menu could have a single button
that says “Play Again?” Or the menu could have a credit list.
If You’re Using Multiple Movies
You may have a situation where you have more than one movie to put on the DVD. You
can handle that in a couple of ways:
• You can put each movie in its own track: If you do not want to have a menu, you can
have the End Jump of the first track set to the next track, linking the tracks together.
This assures that the viewer will watch the movies in the order you specify.
• You can concatentate the movies in a single track: This is a bit easier than placing each
movie in its own track because you do not have to set the End Jumps for each, and it
also ensures that the movies will be watched in a specific order. This does require that
each movie uses the same video and audio formats.
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