ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0
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DVD markers
About DVD markers
The type of DVD markers you add to a sequence depends on how you want your viewers to access the video. In
general, use these guidelines:
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Use main menu markers (and stop markers) to divide the video into separate movies. Buttons on the main menu
link to main menu markers.
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Use scene markers (without stop markers) when you want the movie to play from start to finish, and also want
your viewer to be able to jump ahead to specific scenes. Scene buttons link to scene markers and appear on scene
submenus one after another (not grouped by movie).
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Use stop markers to designate the end of a movie. When the DVD player reaches a stop marker, it returns back to
the main menu. If you add a stop marker to a sequence, a DVD player will no longer play the movie from start to
finish. Therefore, you generally add stop markers only if you’ve divided your video into separate movies, and don’t
need to play the clips in the sequence from beginning to end.
Note:
You can use both main menu markers and scene markers in a movie. However, you must remember that once the
DVD player encounters a stop marker, it returns to the main menu, not the menu from which it was called.
Relationship between DVD markers and the menu templates
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Media start
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Stop marker
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Main menu marker
D.
Scene marker
Main menu markers
You can divide a sequence into individual movies that appear as buttons on the DVD main menu. You place main
menu markers in the sequence to indicate the beginning of each movie and DVD stop markers to indicate the end
of each movie. A button is added to the menu that corresponds to each main menu marker. Text in the marker’s
Name field becomes the button’s text. If the main menu does not contain enough main menu marker buttons, Adobe
Premiere Pro duplicates the main menu and adds a Next button on the primary main menu. If you have no main
menu markers in your movie, no movie buttons appear on the main menu.
Note:
The Play button on the main menu automatically links to the starting point of the time ruler, so you don’t need to
place a main menu marker there.
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