Chapter Skip Forward strangeness

Chapter Skip Forward strangeness

I'm getting the hang of DVD SP 4 but when playing back the short clip featured on my menu I'm getting strange results using the Chapter Skip Forward button. I reviewed some recent threads on this and didn't find it addressed.

I've created 6 video thumbnails/buttons that play correctly , each having an end jump to take you back to the menu, hi-liting the button for the nest clip to the right. (This is the flow or order I'd like in a Play All situation) If I use the Chapter Skip Forward button in mid clip playback more often that not I go to a clip out of that order. (The desired flow, that the remote follows is left-to-right, top to bottom) It's not clear to me where or how one can arrange or hard-wire a chapter order? I should add that after designing on paper the left to right clip/button placement, I've changed it within in DVDSP after having a change of heart after using the simulator.

Adding to the puzzle sometime the Chapter Skip Forward button does nothing when playing back certain clips.

Thanks,

Paul

This makes perfect sense but what would account for this command taking the user to other track/clips out of the aforementioned order?

It's early days for me in "authoring" but for this editor's demo reel I like the idea of the user being sent back to the menu after every track has played, but also (would) like it if the user could skip directly to playing back the next track with the "Next" button on the remote.

Next / Previous is designed to skip between chapter within a track. Put a chapter marker 1 GOP from the end of the track. This way the next button will hit that chapter point then immediately go to its end jump.

Hi Brent,

Great stuff, I have my work cut out for me. Right now everything is a separate track (and short - average length 2min). I promise to study up on your suggestion. However it's strange that the Chapter Skip Forward on the DVD SP simulator does nothing, whereas a burned dvd on a Sony player (using the Next button on tthe remote) will send me to another track... just not the one I want. Wish there was a simpler way to override this and program the Next what I want and not the seemingly random next.*

Paul

p.s. I suspect the seemingly random next is a vestige of an old menu order mentioned in my first post "I should add that after designing on paper the left to right clip/button placement, I've changed it within in DVDSP after having a change of heart after using the simulator. "