Can I create nested menus

[EarlWaud]

I want to create a DVD that has this:
An initial auto played video that when complete goes to a menu. On that menu are 4 choices which all go to different sub menus. On each of those sub menus, I want 3 or 4 short videos that when played each return to their respective sub menu. Of course each sub menu needs to be able to return to the main menu. I also want to be able to replay that initial auto played video from either the main menu or one of the sub menus.

I can't see to find a way to create a sub menu unless I add one or more chapters to a video. I'm not looking to add chapters for 1 video, I want each sub menu to have 3 or 4 different videos as its menu choices.

Can I do this with the full version of DVD Movie Factory plus?
Thanks,
-Earl
ps sorry if this is answered somewhere, I've spent several hours trying to find the answer here.

[sjj1805]

Partially Yes.

Step 1 - create 5 Videos - in DVD authoring they are termed Titles.
We will call them in this example
VideoA
VideoB
VideoC
VideoD
Firstplay

Step2
Import these into MovieFactory

Step3
Import your Firstplay video again - it now appears twice on your time line.

Step 4
Make sure one of the two Firstplay videos is on the left of the timeline and then tick the button "Use first clip as introductory video"

Step 5
Create chapters for each of the 4 Titles prefixed "Video"

Step 6
Create your DVD Menus as normal. You will now have
A title menu with 5 thumbnails and a play all button. One of the 5 thumbnails will be the second copy of your first play video.
The remaining 4 thumbnails are for the 4 Videos VideoA to VideoD
Selecting one of those 4 thumbnails will take you to the chapter menu for that video.

[EarlWaud]

Thank you!

So I get the first part, where I can have my auto play video show up as a menu choice by adding it a second time. That solves that.

Now if I understand, it seems that sub menus can only have chapters for one video . To get what I need, I would have to take the 3 or 4 videos I need on the each sub menu and join them into 1 video for each sub menu and then create the chapters for each of those (sub) videos?

Is that right?

Thanks again!
-Earl

[sjj1805]

Yes that is correct.

[EarlWaud]

So the problem for me then is that with my 3 joined videos, if I go to the chapter menu and play the first one, it will play all three back to back to back, before returning to the sub menu. Right?