Encore defaults to automatically setting the button routing (the selection path among the menu buttons during playback, as you use the remote's arrow keys). For custom-built menus, the automatic button routing often give quirky button paths (dead-ends, strange routes, ...). Fix this manually as follows.
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1 - In Project Panel (top left), on Menus tab…
- Click on the menu of interest to select it.
2 - In Monitor Panel (top middle)…
- Select the tab for that menu (as opposed to the tabs for Monitor or Flow Chart).
- Click the button to "Show Button Routing" (bottom of Monitor panel, 3rd button from left).
3 - In Properties Panel (top right)…
- Select the Basic Tab.
- Uncheck the button for "Automatically Route Buttons" (~3/4 down the panel; it's checked by default)
Note:You won't see this button if you are editing the buttons themselves - i.e., if in the Layers Panel (btm right) the buttons are listed and any are selected. You have to be at the menu level, not the button level, of selection to see this option button. If you find yourself in the button level of selection (where you set what that button opens during playback), you can return to the menu level of selection by clicking on the menu (its name, i.e., line entry, in the list of menus in the menu tab) in the Project Panel (top right).
4 - In the Monitor Panel (top middle), select the Tab for that menu, then ...
- Drag each direction arrow element for each button, to the menu button you want it to go to.
Note: You can drag to the arrow key indicator to that same button (the one the arrow indicator icon is sitting on). Use this, for example, if you don't want the selection path to "wrap" to the top, so that pressing the remote's down arrow from the bottom button would just stay at that bottom button.
Note: For some cases, such stacked buttons (see image below), it may be more intuitive to set up and left arrows to the same target, and down and right arrows to the same target -- e.g.:
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Posted 30 May 2016, wrt Encore CS6 version 6.0.2.004.
My goal here is a set of quick-references to remind new or infrequent users how to do important tasks that I did not find fully (or succinctly) documented elsewhere.
About me: I'm a hobbyist user relatively new to Adobe Premiere Pro & Encore, which I use a handful of times a year, but in fairly ambitious projects, at least for a one-person team, and as a hobbyist user. So, remembering the software's pitfalls and the sometimes inobvious paths to getting things done can be tricky for me. To help with that, I plan to write some walk-throughs. And rather than wasting them in just my person files, I thought I'd post them here, in case anyone else can use them. This is the first one. We'll see how many I create.