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About chapter playlists
Chapter playlists function much as playlists do, but provide a means of playing a single timeline's chapters in a nonse-
quential order. You can also use chapter playlists to change the end action, menu remote, or other timeline
properties. After creating a chapter playlist, you populate and edit it by using the Playlist Properties panel.
Note: You use chapter playlists to link together chapters within a single timeline; you use playlists to link together
multiple timelines.
For example, suppose the main timeline for a pottery-making DVD progresses from an introductory workflow to a
discussion of tools (with chapter markers for each tool type) to a series of demonstrations (chapters for making a
bowl, a vase, a pitcher, and a plate), then to glazing and, finally, to firing in the kiln. With chapter playlists, you can
quickly create different paths for different viewers.
You make a main menu with buttons to play the entire video, or to play each demo separately. To play the entire video,
you simply link that button to the main timeline. To play the individual demonstrations, you create a chapter playlist
for each possible path you want (a bowl chapter playlist, a pitcher chapter playlist, and so on). When the viewer clicks
the pitcher demo button, for example, which is linked to the pitcher chapter playlist, the pitcher demo plays, then
glazing, and so forth—the viewer sees only the relevant parts. Or you could create a chapter playlist for the viewer
who only wants to see the overall workflow, without watching the individual demonstrations. In this instance, you
create a workflow chapter playlist, and add to it all the chapters except the demonstration chapters.
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Drag chapters from the Master Timeline panel (A) to the chapter panel (B) where you can re-order them and change their properties.
To create, populate, or edit a chapter playlist
You can create a chapter playlist to present the chapters of a timeline in nonsequential order.
Choose File > New > Chapter Playlist or choose Timeline > New Chapter Playlist. If a timeline is selected, a
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chapter playlist is created from it. If no timeline is selected, Adobe Encore DVD prompts you to choose one.
2 In the Chapter Playlist panel, select the chapters you want to work with and click the Add button
to the Chapter list on the right, or double-click them.
Arrange the chapters in their new order by dragging them in the Chapter list panel.
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