Setting a button to select an audio or subtitle track


    It is best to provide a menu with buttons for selecting the audio and subtitle tracks, especially if you are using these tracks for material that is not language specific. Audio and subtitle selection is a button property that you set along with the button's destination link. Although you specify the tracks with the destination link, the track choices are a DVD-wide setting. After the viewer activates the button, the track setting remains in effect for all subsequently viewed timelines, unless reset by the viewer. If no matching track exists for a timeline, the DVD player switches to track one.

    You can set the audio or subtitle track with any link control (such as End Action or Override) in the Properties palette. For example, if you want the audio and/or subtitle tracks selected with a button to apply only to the destination timeline, you can set them either off (subtitle tracks only) or back to a specific track or tracks using the button's Override property. When the timeline ends, the override setting will reset the track.

To set a button to select an audio or subtitle track:

  1. Click the Menus tab to activate it.
  2. In the Menus tab, select the desired menu or double-click the menu to open it in the Menu Editor window.
  3. Select the button that will set the audio and or subtitle track in either the Menus tab or the Menu Editor window. (In the Menu Editor window you must use the selection tool selection tool , not the direct select tool, so that you select the entire button set.)
  4. Click the Properties tab to activate it (or choose Window > Properties).
  5. In the Properties palette, choose Specify Other from the Link pop-up menu.
  6. If you haven't set the destination yet for the link, open the desired menu or timeline folder, and select the button or chapter point. (To display the default button in a menu, select the menu name rather than one of its buttons.)
  7. If you want this button to change audio track setting for the DVD, select a track number from the Audio Track pop-up menu.
  8. If you want this button to change the subtitle track setting for the DVD, select a track number from the Subtitle Track pop-up menu.
  9. Click OK.

To set a link to change the audio or subtitle track for the DVD:

  1. With the desired link control displayed in the Properties palette, choose Specify Other from the Link Control pop-up menu.
  2. If you haven't set the destination yet for the link, open the desired menu or timeline folder, and select the button or chapter point. (To display the default button in a menu, select the menu name rather than one of its buttons.)
  3. If you want this link to change the audio track setting for the DVD, select a track number from the Audio Track pop-up menu.
  4. If you want this link to change the subtitle track setting for the DVD, select a track number from the Subtitle Track pop-up menu.
  5. Click OK.