Cannot create additional menus MF4

[Evert]

Hi,

I want to create an additional menu structure so that my main menu contains de chapters 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

These chapters contains my slideshows of the happenings during the year for example 2005. I hope this would be possible because otherwise I need to put all slideshows in one menu which does not give me a nice overview.

Anyone an idea or another idea which I could use?

Best regards,
Evert

[maddrummer3301]

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean but to make the chapters show up on the
main menu screen you can do the following while in the Menu Creation
Screen:

Click on Advanced Settings:

UNCheck "Add Title Menu"
(The chapters should show up on the main screen).

Hope this helps,

MD

[Evert]

Hi MD,

Thanks for youre reply.
Unfortunately I am not able to uncheck "Add Title Menu" in the Advanced Settings" at all. The option is greyed out (disabled). I tried your option in the "Create Video DVD" and "Create Slideshow DVD" but in both with the same result.

Any idea what is going on here?

Best regards,
Evert

[maddrummer3301]

Hi,

Are you working with 4 video files or 1 large video file with 4 chapters?

If only 1 large video file then:
If you go into the chaptering screen from the timeline do you see the
chapters. If not set them.

Then that option should be active.

MD

[Evert]

Hi MD,

I think I did not explain my situations well enough. Unfortunately I am not working with video files but with photos of my digital camera. I would like to setup my DVD with a menu structure like that I can choose to which menu I would like to go. For example a menu called "2000" containing all my photos of the year 2000, a menu called "2001" containting all material (photos) of the year 2001 and so on.

Hopefully this is possible.

Thank you for your support.

Best regards,
Evert Smit

[maddrummer3301]

Hi,

You can create many slideshows in MF. Way more than 1 so simply
cllick on create slideshow and make that all your pictures for say
the year 2000. After you have all the pictures and settings done
for the year 2000 then close the slideshow creation.
That slideshow will now showup as 1 clip on the main timeline.
You can name that clip later in the menu creation stage.

To create the next slideshow for year 2001 click on create slideshow
(again). Then create another slideshow with the pictures you want etc.
Then hit close when finished.

At this point you should have 2 clips on the timeline.
Create more slideshows as you want each with respect to the
correct time or occasion in reference.
Make sure you save the project in case Windoze poops out.

Then when you go into the menu creation and click on
"Advanced Options" the create title menu should be active because
you now have more than 1 clip present.
UNCHECKING "Create Title" will make the clips showup on the
main menu.
The option wasn't there before because you only had 1 clip present.
(Unless somethings wrong).

You can create as many slideshows as you want. Simply make each
slideshow ahead of time that you want played.

You can also select under the GEAR icon whether to let the dvd play
the next slideshow or go back to the main menu. That's the small
drop-down box. (Play next item or return to menu).

When your creating a slideshow checkout the blend or fade transistion.
I think it the first one in the list. It's a nice way to transision from one
picture to the next (I forget the exact name of it).
Also, you can import a song a check make slideshow match the length
of the song.
When creating slideshows I would reccommend to use the default
setting of MF for 1 hour becuase it uses a nice bit rate with
dvd compatible audio.
Slideshows don't take up alot of disk space compared to actual video.

MovieFactory 4 lets you create a slideshow and then Export the
slideshow out immediately to a mpg2 file. That's a nice feature.
You can always reuse the previously created slideshow by importing
it into a new compilation.

Hope this helps,

MD

[Evert]

Hi MD,

Thanks for your support, I appreciate that!

Regarding your last reply I followed your steps but I got stuck on the 'Advanced Options' again. Are you sure this should be 'Advanced options' ? In my MF version (4) it is called 'Advanced Settings'. (just to be sure that we are talking about the same version...)

I created 5 clips and clicked the 'Next'-button to go the menu creation. Pressing there on the 'Advanced Options' section I am notable to select/deselect 'Add Title Menu' (which is selected but greyed out) and 'Create Chapter Menu' (which is greyed out).
The only option which I am able to select or deselect (in the 'Advanced Settings') is 'Show Thumbnail Number'.

Is it possible to send you screen dumps with the actions I undertakes?
Otherwise do you know how I can contact someone from ulead to report this question (something like Customer Support)?

Well thanks for your support again.

Best regards,
Evert

[htchien]

I think what you need is to create a menu structure like the following:

________________DVD Title Menu____DVD Chapter Menu
DVD Root Menu +-> SlideShow2001 +-> SlideShow1A
_____________|_______________+-> SlideShow1B
_____________|_______________+-> SlideShow1C
_____________+> SlideShow2002 +-> SlideShow2A
_____________________________+-> SlideShow2B

Is this what you want? If it is, then you might not do it directly but can do it with some tricks.

First, you can create the slideshow albums that you wish to make them to be appeared in the DVD chapter menu as MD suggests, then use the Export selected clip button in the ADD/EDIT MEDIA step in DVDMF4 to export each slideshow albums as DVD complaint video files.

Then, remove all slideshow albums in the DVDMF project (or create an new one), then import those video files into DVDMF, then use the Join Video button to join video files into some title clips that you wish to use to be appeared in the DVD title menus.

Then go to the Setup Menu step and do what MD suggests to make the menu as you wish.

These steps should do the job.

In DVDMF 3.5 or earlier, you have to do the first step in a video editor, but now in DVDMF4 you can do it just in one software.

Hope this helps.

H.T.

[maddrummer3301]

Evert,

I don't know if your monitoring this thread anymore but when you
FIRST start MovieFactory DO NOT choose "Create Slideshow"
Choose the TOP option of
"CREATE VIDEO DVD".
Then Select:
"Create DVD-Video or DVD+VR"

Make your slideshow from within that interface and you can
make the menus like I said.

MD

[maddrummer3301]

Evert,

You must also do as HTChein says above.
Create video files and import them.

MD