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Simply choosing to make a seamless connection does not guarantee that the connection will play without
dropping to black. Whether your connection will play as a seamless connection depends upon a number of
factors.
Here are the requirements for a seamless connection:
n Segment audio must be exactly the same duration as the video.
n Segment video must be encoded with an End of Sequence (EOS)code.
n Segment video must have the same frame rate, maximum bit rate, and aspect ratio.
n The bit rate of the connecting video segments must be within 5 Mbps of each other at the time of
the connection.
n The connection must not be seamless in another playlist in the project.
Playlist Start and End events
The Start and End events are not available for DSA EX Edition projects. For more information, see
"Creating projects" on page 31.
Each playlist has a Start and End event in the Playlist tree.
Select these elements to assign an action that will occur at the start or end of the playlist's playback. When
you select these elements in the Playlist tree, the Action List appears in the Control Panel.
A practical example of a playlist start action would be to assign the Show Menu Block action to the
beginning of a playlist that will be the video loop that appears when the disc plays.
Actions that are assigned to the Start event of a playlist will execute any time the playlist is played, whether
or not the playlist is played from the beginning. For example, if you jump directly to a chapter that occurs
five minutes into the playlist, the Start event actions will still execute.
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