DVD menus

Davidk · Post by **Davidk** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:11 am

I'm using VS11.5+ with the latest upgrade pack.

I am having trouble getting the menus for a project to look like the example cited in the manual p115.

With a project having 3 clips and menu chapter headings set at the start of each clip, the best I have been able to get is:
- a main menu with two buttons - play the disc and open the sub-menu
- a sub-menu with 4 buttons - play the disc and one for each of the selected chapters.

This looks pretty clumsy but there seems to be no way of either
- deleting the main menu if there is a sub-menu with all the needed selections in it; OR
- promoting the chapter headings to the main menu and deleting the sub-menu

A search of the site for white papers on menu methods has been fruitless.

how can I make the menus look 'professional' as indicated??

cheers

Davidk

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:17 am

Welcome to the forums!

On the first page of the burning module, you have Create Menu ticked by default. Leave it that way. You then insert your chapters. Then go to the next page to select the menu template. On the Edit tab on that page, about half way down the left hand side is an Advanced Settings button. When you click that, you can de-select Add Title Menu (that is the main menu) -- which will leave you only with the Chapter Menu appearing.

Davidk · Post by **Davidk** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:58 am

Hi,

What Ken suggested worked fine!

Some related comments -
1. deleting the add main menu (click to uncheck the box) was a bit confusing as it left an unchecked bold main menu item and a checked but greyed out project menu item - but it worked like that.
2. some of the extra links in the gallery item had to be 'hidden' as they were not needed

but the end result was what I'd been sweating lots of hours to achieve, and was a breeze with this tip.

2. Has anyone ever thought of collecting the user board problems and answers into a piece on particular topics (eg, menus) and publishing it as an appendix for the manual or posting it on the whitepapers site by product???

Thanks a bunch, Ken.

Cheers,

Davidk

Pete Waterman · Post by **Pete Waterman** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:34 am

[2. Has anyone ever thought of collecting the user board problems and answers into a piece on particular topics (eg, menus) and publishing it as an appendix for the manual or posting it on the whitepapers site by product??? ]
That will keep you busy

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:13 pm

Yeah David, be our guest!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:15 am

Pete Waterman wrote:[2. Has anyone ever thought of collecting the user board problems and answers into a piece on particular topics (eg, menus) and publishing it as an appendix for the manual or posting it on the whitepapers site by product??? ]
That will keep you busy

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