X3 - how to disable just the Title Menu

[tyab]

X2 had an option when creating the DVD menus to not create a title menu and only create the chapter menus. See screenshot:

See the pulldown, I have unchecked the Add Title Menu line to not create a title menu.

I cannot find a similar option in the X3, it always makes a title menu. In addition, I can't find a way to disable the background menu music in X3, in the same X2 screenshot above, you simply did not select a background music.

Thanks
-J

[Ken Berry]

And have you downloaded and installed Movie Factory 7 SE which will do both these things? The module which came with X3 -- DVD Factory Pro 2010 -- unfortunately does not.

[tyab]

I have dl'ed MF 7 SE but did not look into it since it did not directly integrate with VS - it appears that I have to render my composite video/soundtrack first, but I'll give that a try. Too bad its an extra step, sort of going backwards in terms of access to these features, but I can deal with that. So far I like VS X3 but do not like the integrated DVD factory pro 2010 simply due to lack of the X2 features. Thanks for the suggestion.

[tyab]

Thanks again - using MF7SE, worked perfectly.

And on a side note - I know it easy to complain about things not working, but so rarely do we hear about things done right. Last night my 13'rd old daughter - whom has never used any video editing software before - with minimal guidance from me - was able to edit a school project all in X3. Her and her friends had 21 clips of about 8 mins total of video and she was able to put them all together, splice, move things around, add in scolling text and sound overlays, and make a video file. I then made the .ISO with MF7SE, and then burned copies of the DVD using ImgBurn for her teacher and her friends. Total time from start to finish - about 2 hours - and alot of that was her re-recording the voice overlays for the scroll text overlays.

About the only help I gave was to import the raw video and showed her what the sissors did, and showed how to make text and make it scroll. Helped her use voice recorder to make the voice track. Everything else - she did without help. Watching her showed that that UI simply "worked" and made sense to her.

And X3 never crashed once (I had many crashes with X2 doing the same sort of thing in the past).

[Black Lab]

Seems the younger the user of technology is, the easier it is for them to understand it.

[Ken Berry]

it appears that I have to render my composite video/soundtrack first

For many of us, this was always our workflow anyway. While recognising that many users did their editing then jumped straight into the burning module and using their *project* file instead of a fully rendered video of their project, quite a lot of them also experienced problems of one kind or another... So we had (and indeed still have) something we call the 'recommended workflow' which does things in individual steps, rather than collapsing one or more into a single process. Thus, after editing, our workflow recommends that you first go to Share > Create Video File. Then when that has been produced, you open the burning module -- whether it be DVD Factory 2010 or MF 7 -- to author your disc.

Thank you also for the words about your daughter's ease of use of VS. As you say, always good to hear some positive feedback...