Finding missing links and unassigned assets
Before you build your project, it is always a good idea to first check for missing or unassigned links. Through the development of a DVD, it is easy to forget that you deleted a button from a menu or replaced one video clip with another. The Check Links option can help you quickly find problem links as well as menus and timelines that you created, but did not use (called orphans).
To check the links and assets of a project: - Choose Edit > Check Links or click the Disc tab to activate it and then click the Check Links button.
- In the Check Links dialog box, select one or more of the following search options, and click Start. Adobe Encore DVD lists the items that match any one of the search criteria.
- Broken Links searches for links that point to missing menus, buttons, or timelines.
- Links Not Set searches for links with nothing specified.
- Orphan Menus searches for menus that are not used in the project.
- Orphan Timelines searches for timelines that are not used in the project.
Note: Because nothing links to orphaned items, the viewer is not able to access them via normal navigation of a DVD. However, using the title search feature available on some DVD players, a viewer can search for all video content and thus access an orphaned timeline. In addition, the orphaned items take up valuable space on the DVD, potentially reducing the quality of the other content when you build the project. Therefore, it is best to clean up orphaned assets unless you want them viewed. - To correct a broken link or a link not set, select the menu, button, or timeline in the Check Links dialog box. Then, click the Properties tab to activate it, and correct the link options in the Properties palette.
- To include an orphaned menu or timeline in the project, determine the appropriate item that should link to the orphan. Select that item in the Check Links dialog box or the Project window, and set its link to the orphan in the Properties palette.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you have corrected all the problem links. Then click the close box in the upper right corner of the dialog box or click Done.
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