DVD Menu Creation

[javabean]

Hello to All,
I am on a 30 day trial of Videostudio pro X5, I am trying to create a simple menu via "nuts & bolts" like I could about 5 yrs ago on DVD-LAB. I do not care for the "wizard"
approach....why, because you don't get exposed as to what is going on under the hood. Presently i don't care for transitions, motions, background music and alot of the other fluff work. This can all come later!

I know there are lots of tutorials for transcoding source video from one format to another. In a nutshell, I want to render to DVD, 3 Television episodes. One menu with 3 selections, play selected episode til end, return to menu and wait. I want to be able to pick my font type & Font size and and episode title, if I had more episodes a "More"
selection link to a 2nd page menu from there a "previous" button to go back to 1st page.

is this possible or I am old school and need to find an alternative suite.

Thanks in advance.

[BrianCee]

that last little bit is the sting in the tail - switching back and forth between to menu pages - I'm not sure you can go forward again, never found a way to do that . do you really want to do that - if you have more clips why not just have more selections on the one page.

but here is a typical 3 video menu I knocked up the other day for a similar question :-

and this is a four video menu that I actually used :-

[javabean]

I appreciate your quick reply, you did that on VS? ...Out of wizardville (hands on)? Could you please summarize your steps.

Thanks

[BrianCee]

OK - I've knocked up a rough guide to creating a customised menu - should show you all the basic steps - have a look at it and then we if you have questions can proceed from there - video tutorial here :-

http://youtu.be/rMDId9qnVV0

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and here's another more formal menu which I use quite regularly throughout the year