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This is driving me mad and has happened several times: I create chapters and enter menu titles in the DVD authoring screen (Share - Create Disc - DVD) of VS Pro X2.
Then I come back to it later, and the menus have all been cleared - back to default theme and chapter titles.

One cause that seems to do this is if any clip is relinked. All menus are deleted.
However today it happened to me without any relink...
ANother causes is, deleting or adding a chapter deletes all the entered menu titles after it.

Curiously, with a binary editor I can still see my entered titles in the VSP file, but that might just be leftovers.

I am going to submit some bug reports to Corel about this, but:
- has anyone else noticed this?
- has anyone ever managed to get Corel to fix anything? (I'm assuming they are probably like most big consumer software companies, impossible to get past their L1 helpdesk)

Welcome to the forums,

It would appear that what you're doing is closing the burn module, that tells you it is saving your settings. Then possibly when you close the editor, ie; close VS, and it asks if you want to save your settings, you are not.

This is a very user-unfriendly set up in VS. Even if you don't have any project open in VS, after closing the burn module, you need to select yes to save. This is the step that is actually saving any work you have done in the burn module.

So again, if you have opened VS, went to Share>Create Disc (no project, no files in the timeline), built your DVD menus, chapters, ect., then close the burn module, you need to select Yes to save when closing the editor, or starting a new project. Then it should save everything you have done in the burn module. Even if you have clips in the editor timeline, and went to Share>Create disc (burn module), before closing VS, press YES...

Hello Vidoman, thanks for your response. Inline:

vidoman wrote:Welcome to the forums,
It would appear that what you're doing is closing the burn module, that tells you it is saving your settings. Then possibly when you close the editor, ie; close VS, and it asks if you want to save your settings, you are not.

I see, this probably explains it. Thanks.

In my case it could have been terminating VS because it locked up. Hm, indeed it is not obvious that the "Saving" from DVD authoring is only really "saving" it into working memory, not saving the data to disk. Ouch.

Having to remember to close the DVD authoring screen, save the project, then reopen the authoring screen just in order to save the menus is pretty unbearable ...

So there is an explanation, but the workaround is pretty horrible

I think that the DVD menu editing would be better integrated as a separate panel in the main editor, that way it would follow normal load/save logic...

... Except that Video Studio is essentially a video editing program, which just happens to have a DVD authoring (which includes menu editing) module tacked on for the sake of making it stand-alone. You are talking about converting it to a dual editing/authoring program, with both elements integrated more fully. What happens then to Movie Factory, which is the essential authoring program which is the mirror to VS's editing side? Yes, it might seem logical to you and me and many others. But to a software company, they would be "sacrificing" one whole product, and more importantly, the income from it ...

Having to remember to close the DVD authoring screen, save the project, then reopen the authoring screen just in order to save the menus is pretty unbearable ...

So there is an explanation, but the workaround is pretty horrible Sad

Horrible? Having to click File>Save may be inconvenient, but horrible?

Horrible? Having to click File>Save may be inconvenient, but horrible?

It's a lot more than that. If you're in the DVD authoring screen and want to save, you have to
1. Click close. (No key shortcut? Escape throws your data away!)
2. Wait while it "saves"
3. Click File - Save
4. Click Write Disc - DVD
5. Wait while it "loads" the menu
6. Step through the wizard to where you were before.

OK. It's downright awful, as well as inconvenient. And worse, it has been that way since I started using VS quite a few years ago now. A lot of us have complained and complained about it to Ulead and now Corel, but it never gets fixed...

I agree this is the worst Ulead could have done I still wish they would implement the suggestion I made years ago... 1-Click DVD....