DVD Chapters - additional pages

[MikeC1964]

Good morning folks. I haven't posted for a while, but I have a question I'm sure you can answer!

I'm using VS X4 (I know - I'm behind the times!) and I am wanting to burn a DVD of a clip that has more than four chapters.

I the 'Menu and Preview' section I am offered a Main Menu and additional Chapter Menu which has up to four chapters on it. They are faily basic affairs. I have changed the background to have the same static picture and the same title 'Cornwall 2013'.

The Main Menu simply has a play button only along with a link called 'Scene Selection...' which takes the viewer to the Chapter Menu screen. The Chapter Menu has the four relevant chapters that can be selected along with the standard navigation buttons.

The problem is that in the Menu and Preview section it only allows me to edit the first page of the Chapter menu screen ( as I say I have more than four chapters so there are several screens).

The problem is when I go to preview, the second page of the Chater Menu instead of having 'Cornwall 2013' has the clip name displayed instead (which initially was 'Unknown' until I renamed it.

I also want to give the Chapters 'proper' names, but I don't know how to access the Chapters after number 4. I cannot seem to rename them in the add/edit chapter section either? I can only sem to change the first four chapter names as that is all I am offered.

I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious......

Mike

[BrianCee]

You don't mention which particular menu you are using - I'm guessing text menus because you keep mentioning "more than four chapters" - but you can in fact have 6 chapters for text menus - and I believe there was a special which Steve Jones made for 9.

If you are using thumbnail menus then you can have eight per menu page.

Any way - to get to the next chapter page just click on one of the arrows I have circled in the image below - the left one steps a page at a time and the right one goes to the last page.

To rename chapters - when on the page editing screen - as shown in the image below - RIGHT click on the chapter title and from the pop-out choose 'Edit' - change the name - click any where else in the window to set it.

click on the image to enlarge it

[MikeC1964]

Oh my gosh. I'm sooo embarrassed! I thought it might be something obvious.......but not quite that obious!

Thanks.

Ahem.....

[lata]

Hi

Just to add---as you appear to only have the single link on the main menu it is of little use as it only accesses the first chapter menu.

If you wish you could hide the main menu, when playing the disc the first chapter menu will show first.

How

From the Edit Tab choose Advanced Settings
Deselect Add Title Menu

Brian mentioned having up to 8 links per menu page
Providing you are using Thumbnail or Text menu
Choose the Customised option
Select Layout from the drop down box labelled Frame
Select your option from the timeline.

Hope this helps

By the way VS 9 allowed for 12 thumbnails per page, no idea why Corel reduced that.

[canuck]

Hi

Just to add---as you appear to only have the single link on the main menu it is of little use as it only accesses the first chapter menu.

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Can you not have a a main menu page with 2 options: a Play All button that would play the whole movie and Scene Selection button from which you can select certain chapters only?

[lata]

Hi canuck

Yes you can have a main menu with 2 options, two or more thumbnails-- but then you cannot hide that menu.
You can only hide a main menu with the single option, a single thumbnail.

If you have a main menu with a single option the only controls will be Play All or to access the Chapter Menu.

Once you access the chapter menu selecting any chapter will play the disc to the end.
So why bother having a main menu.?

Maybe we misunderstand each other???