Hey guys! It would be a whole lot easier if PD would just come up with a simple menu with no thumbnails but here is my workaround that works for me.
In “Create Disc” I’ve selected “Create Menu” to create a new menu. I designed my “Root Menu” and “Titles/Chapters Menu” pages to the layout that I wanted. However, on the “Titles/Chapters Menu” page, I shrunk the thumbnail down to the size of my text and moved the thumbnail to the left of my text. I used the grid lines as reference points to get all the thumbnails the same size. I don’t know if there is a way to resize them all at the same time, but if so, I don’t know how. I can be dumber than a box of rocks at some of this stuff! Lol!
((((I am creating a Blu-ray disc with a bluegrass band that I play banjo with. I want to see the names of the songs but the motion thumbnails all look the same. So here is what I continued to do with the thumbnails.))))
After resizing the thumbnails and moving them to the left of the track title (and by the way, I put 7 track titles on each page) I then clicked on “Set Button Properties” tab. Now this is what I used for my own menu. You can use whatever you like! Under the “Button Highlight Style” I selected the green highlight frame and under the “Button Frame and Mask” tab, I selected the thin white rectangle. I then saved my menu.
Now while back on the main “Create Disc” module I selected “Playback Mode” at the bottom right of the screen and set the “Auto Menu Timeout” to 20 seconds.
Now I went back to the “Edit” tab, where you edit the video. There I selected the “Media Content” tab and “Color Boards”. I added a, 22 second in length, black color board at the very end of my video, with no sound or video!
Next I went to the “Chapter Room” and selected the chapters one at a time and moved my position marker to the very beginning of my 22 second black color board and clicked the button “set the current frame as the chapter thumbnail”. I set all my chapters to the same location that way my 20 second motion thumbnail will only show black.
Now here was my final step and don’t ask how I figured this out, cause I’m not that smart! Again LOL!
I saved my entire project and closed PD12. Now I opened Paint and selected “Open”. In the popup window I went to: \C:\Users\????\Documents\Cyberlink\Custom Menus\3.0\Menu_??? (go by date and time-the menu you just saved)\highlight\
The first one I chose was “HL06" and opened it in “Paint”.
In “Tools” is selected “Fill with color” and made the entire frame green.
Then I saved it and clicked open and opened “HL06_16v9" in the “highlight” folder.
I did the same in paint with it as the other and filled the entire center of the frame with the same color of green.
Saved it and closed “Paint”.
Went back and opened PD12 and went to “Create Disc” \ “Menu Preferences” clicked on my menu and “Apply to All Pages”.
Double check the “Playback mode:” and make sure the “Auto Menu Timeout” is still at 20 seconds, so it don’t run past the 22 second black color board.
Last I saved my entire project and checked it in “Preview” to make sure all was right.
My motion thumbnails now are black (with no preview or motion) with a thin white frame around them. The highlighted thumbnail shows solid green.
Again, this is just what I used. You can make a lot of other changes to your own preferences, as colors, styles, etc. When my Blu-ray now comes to the end, it plays the 22 seconds of black color board but that's no big deal. Usually you're ready to hit the stop/eject button anyway. It's just 22 seconds of nothing!
Sorry about the deep detailed explanation. I know I get carried away when explaining something but I hope I can help someone out, when it seems like a few of us are having the same problem of creating a menu without the motion thumbnails.
God bless and have a great day.
John
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