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Routing occurs whenever you navigate through a DVD. You may not know this, but when you're sitting at home with your popcorn and you're watching a DVD and every time you press a button on the DVD control, your remote control, for example if you press the Left Button, it will go to a certain place in the DVD. If you press the Right, Left, Up, Down and the Center ones, they all go somewhere different. You can see what this routing looks like inside of Encore. As you see here, I have the Science and Technology Menu open and I chose it from the Technology set here and what I can do is click on a button like so, one time, and to see the routing, as long as I'm in the menu itself, I can click on this button right here to see the button routing. All of a sudden I have these Xs, which are kind of like a line on your side and I have a lot of numbers. It looks like tic-tac-toe. What I'm going to do is I'm going to expand this a little bit so we can focus on this more clearly. The number in the center gives you the current button. This is number one, this is number two and, of course, this is number three. To the sides you have the routing. So as you see here, number one has a two here, which means if I press the Right Button on my DVD remote control, it's going to go to the button that has this in its center. So here's two and here's two, which means if I press this button, it's going to go here. Likewise, if I look at the number two button, what happens if I press the Left Button on my controller? It's going to go to the number one. And don't forget; the numbers on the sides correspond with the numbers in the center. The center is really the important number because this is going to tell you where it's going to go. So if I push down, it's going to go where it is. If I push left, it's going to jump over to three. So it's a little confusing at first but we're going to go ahead and play around with the routing. Now, if I want to work with the routing and tell the buttons what I want them to do, I have to turn off the automatic routing, which is on by default. So what I have to do is I have to click off buttons and on the menu itself. Let me expand this out a little bit and show you that in the properties we have this Automatically Route Buttons Option checked. I'll turn it off and then I will come back over here and what I can do now is put my Move Tool over a button like so, so I can say I want number one to go to three. So I click and drag until I see the pickwhip and drop it on the appropriate button. Notice now that the three is down here, which means when I press down on my remote control, it goes to number three. Let's say I want number three now, when I press to the left, to go to number one. So I grab the two, drag it on top of the one and it changes that number. Once again, it can be slightly confusing to understand when it's happening, but just remember; the button that you're dealing with is the one in the center and these on the sides are where the button will go, or rather this is the destination number that will jump to the appropriate button that has the same number. So you see a two here, that means it's going to go here. You see a three here and this is going to jump here. So it just takes a little getting used to and a little practice. So let's go ahead and get this back the way it was. I want, when I press down, to go to two. So I'll click on this, put it back on two, which is fine and that is pretty much routing and it's not that difficult once you get the hang of it. I'll go ahead and turn that off now and now our buttons will go exactly where we want them to when we actually make the DVD.