I'm doing my first Encore project, and I keep getting this error: End action will not execute because of end action on the final chapter point.
My Timeline:
I have a single timeline consisting of a couple of AVIs. There is a starting "Chapter Point" put in by Encore and 3 additional Chapter Points I added.
My Goal:
- A Main Menu with
- A "Play" button that simply plays the entire timeline, start-to-finish, and when finished returns to Main Menu.
- A "Scenes" button that brings up a Submenu
- A Submenu with 4 chapter buttons, each of which would play a chapter in the timeline and return to self/same Submenu when finished.
My End Actions:
It seems like an End Action is required for everything that's defined. So,
- The "End Action" for the timeline is to return to the Main Menu.
- The "End Action" for each Chapter Point in the timeline is to return to the Submenu.
My Flowchart
- First thing that runs is the Main Menu.
- The Play button links to the timeline (whose end action is return to main menu).
- The Scenes button links to the submenu
- On the submenu, each Chapter button links to the appropriate Chapter Point in the timeline (each Chapter Point has an end action to return to the submenu).
All of this makes perfect sense to me, and reflects exactly what I want to do. So clearly it won't work!
When I check my project, I get the error mentioned above. I don't understand how it's even possible to avoid this error: your timeline HAS to have an end action, your timeline has to have at least one Chapter point, and each Chapter point HAS to have an end action.
So, by definition, it seems that Encore
- REQUIRES the timeline to have an end action,
- REQUIRES the final chapter on the timeline to have an end action, and
- Gives you an error when you do what it requires.
What the....???
My Workaround
I was finally able to work around the problem by creating a "Chapter Playlist" for each chapter, i.e. I created a "Chapter 1 Playlist" whose sole contents was a link to Chapter Point 1, a "Chapter 2 Playlist" whose sole contents was a link to Chapter Point 2, etc.
Then in my submenu, instead of linking to a Chapter Point, I linked to a Chapter Playlist instead, and in each Chapter Playlist I set an end action of "return to submenu".
That worked - but it seems really kludgy and I can't help shake the feeling that I'm doing something wrong... or am I doing something right?