PI 12 DVD Menu Plug-in Problems

markvan · Post by **markvan** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:28 am

I've been using PI 12 to try to make my own menus for DVD MF 5 and have been unsuccessful so far. My problem now is that I can't use as many scene buttons as I want in a menu template. In the tutorial, it states that I can have up to 32 scene buttons (which is great because I have a lot of baseball games that I want to put on DVD, and I want my menu to look like a baseball scoreboard), but when I'm assigning components, it only allows me up to 13 scenes. I want each half inning to represent one scene button. Here is a link to my file so you can see what I'm talking about:
http://media7.filewind.com/g.php?filepath=4839

I want the Pre-Game button to represent my first scene (which could also be my Play All button), and the 1-17 in the scoreboard each represent the rest of my scenes. The home plate on the bottom right is my link back to my main menu and everything else is a decoration. If there is anyone that can help me out, please help me in the forum or send me a private message. Thanks in advance.

Mark

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:08 am

The DVD Menu Plug-in does only go up to 13 and so to go above that figure you would need to do the rest manually.

The easiest way would be to use the plug in to create as much as possible and then it will save upon closure.

You would then have to do the remaining items yourself which isn't as hard as it appears because you simply look at the existing ones for their naming structure, then name the rest accordingly.

markvan · Post by **markvan** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:23 pm

How do I manually name them? I'm not sure what you mean by naming them according to their naming structure.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:16 pm

Please click and download the following

PhotoImpact DVD Menu Tutorial

markvan · Post by **markvan** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:10 pm

Steve, thanks a lot! Manually assigning functions is way better than using the DVD Menu Plug-in. I've made a few menus to my exact specifications, and they work great in DVD MF 5. I don't have to have all of the stuff that the plug-in wants, which makes it so much better. Manually assigning the functions is the way to go!