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Setting asset end actions

Setting asset end actions

Well, now that you have your first play set, and you have linked up all of the buttons, you might think that okay, we are done. We are going to burn this DVD and put it in our player, and it should play smoothly, flawlessly, no problems. But it won't play properly, because you haven't set what are called end actions. You haven't told the timelines in the slideshow what to do when they are done playing. That's called an end action. If you have a consumer DVD authoring product, it will probably set end actions automatically, but here this is a professional product, so you need to tell it exactly what you want it to do when they are done playing. Let me show you what happens if you don't set an end action. All of these timelines in this particular project do not have end action set yet. So I am going to right-click on this menu and say preview from here, play the Main Movie, and this is a 6-minute movie, so I am going to jump ahead to the end by clicking this little button down here to…

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