Can I define the video used in a chapter motion menu?

[bvideo]

After this last tip, it occurred to me that setting up the chapter thumbnail points might transfer to the smart menus. In other words, even though you cannot access all the pages of the smart menus and set individual scenes, if you establish a thumbnail menu first, set the thumbnails, then change it to a smart menu, it takes your new thumbnails. (so far so good, anyway). So if this was already said before or in a tutorial, please forgive me.
Bill B.

[richlux]

Thanks to etech6355, I figured it out! Actually, there were two things I needed to do:

1) Like etech6355 said, it's not in the add/edit chapter menu, it's in the menu creation section.
2) I was using a SmartScene Menu and you don't have this option for SmartScene Menus. When I switched to a Thumbnail menu, I immediately saw what everyone was talking about.

This sucks because I really like the SmartScene concept, but more importantly I need to set my motion menu starting points. This brings up another question... Is there a place we can purchase or download more DVD menu templates?

Thanks to everyone for helping me figure this out!
Rich

[bvideo]

I was trying to say in my earlier post that I think it is doable in SmartScene menus. But I seem to belong to the 50% of people who do not express themselves clearly.

Thanks to etech6355 and others on this thread, I found out how to do it in the menu edit view when working on thumbnail menus. So these are the steps I use to make it work for a SmartScene:

In the share->dvd panel:
1. Collect the sources on the timeline and set suitable chapter points.
2. Proceed to the menu editing page and select any thumbnail style menu.
3. Edit those thumbnail points that need to be different from the chapter points (using the methods described earlier in the thread).
4. Now change menu type, choosing the desired SmartScene menu.
5. Now do the rest of the customizing, preview as necessary, etc.

For the one case I tried, this resulted in the SmartScene menu pages using the parts of the video I selected in place of the chapter points, meaning the motion parts of the SmartScene menu came out the way I wanted.

The big drawback of this method, unless I am missing something, is if you want to do serious revisions of chapter points, although it works correctly to revert to a thumbnail menu and change thumbnails some more, the previous work to customize the SmartScene menu has to be redone.
Bill B.

[sjj1805]

I was trying to say in my earlier post that I think it is doable in SmartScene menus. But I seem to belong to the 50% of people who do not express themselves clearly.......

Bill
It was cyrstal clear and thank you for sharing this with us.
In fact I have slightly altered your above post and placed it in this link as a part of the overall "From camcorder to DVD" Tutorail.

Chapters

[richlux]

Excellent Bill! Thanks for the trick. I find that I get more out of software from forums like this then I do from anything that the manufacturer produces.

Rich

[bvideo]

... In fact I have slightly altered your above post and placed it in this link as a part of the overall "From camcorder to DVD" Tutorail.

Steve,
Thank you, it's an honor!
Having the button motion follow the alternate thumbnail is a nice little feature VS11 has over WS2. Or have I been missing something in WS2?
Bill