If you want a simple text-based menu, try this one from the DirectorZone.

http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/5485


It has a chapter menu page which just lists 6 clickable chapter headings.

You will note that there is a preview window on the Main menu page, showing the first part of your movie. There seems to be no way to get rid of this but it can be disguised so that it doesn’t show on your screen.

Similarly your first Chapter menu page, listing Chapters 1 to 6, will show a window displaying your video from the first chapter. The second Chapter menu page (if you have more than six chapters) will list Chapters 7 to 12 and the window will display the video from Chapter 7. And so on for the remainder of your Chapters pages. Again you can’t get rid of these windows but you can disguise them.

In Edit mode, insert a black colour board at the front of your movie, and another one after each five chapters of your video, then create your chapters so that the colour boards become chapters 1, 7, 13 etc. The colour boards should be as short as possible – it seems that 2 seconds is the minimum workable duration in this situation.

Now go to Create Disc. Make sure that “Enable video thumbnails” is unchecked, then the window on the Main Menu page will just show the first chapter, i.e. the black colour board (which will disappear into the black background). Similarly the windows on the Chapters Menu pages will show the other colour boards.

You should now have a menu system which is just clickable text – six chapters - on a black background. But Chapters 1, 7, 13, etc, when clicked, will bring up the relevant colour board. You can get rid of these by editing the text on the Chapters menu pages.

Make sure the Author tab is clicked. Go to the first Chapters Menu page and double-click on “Chapter 1” and replace the existing text with a space. Double-click on “Chapter 2” and replace it with “Chapter 1”. Similarly replace Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6 with 2, 3 4 and 5. Your menu page should now list five chapters. Repeat for your remaining chapter menu pages. Note that the chapter numbers on your menu will not agree with the chapter numbers on your timeline (your Menu Chapter 1 will be Chapter 2 on your timeline).

You will probably want to change the “My Video” to something more meaningful as well. And since your chapter titles are long, you may need to slide them to the left of your screen.

Note that the place where the original “Chapter 1” heading was will still be clickable (at least where the “C” was – now the space). To avoid accidentally clicking on that, you could slide it out of the way, e.g. to the top or bottom or one corner of the screen.

Note also that clicking on a chapter will play that chapter, and then the next chapter(s) will play automatically to the end of the video. There is no way that you can select a chapter, play it, and return to the menu.

If you choose to play the whole video you will of course get the 2-second sections of black between each set of five scenes.

Hope that helps

Robert

Thank you so much Robert for your info....I'll have to try your suggestion and see what I come up with.

Thanks again, John Windows 7 64-bit 8 GB RAM, x64
AMD Phenom, IIx4 925 Processor
2800 Mhz, 4 Core, 4 Logical Processors
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Phys. Memory 7.99 GB
Available Phys. Memory 5.70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.3 GB

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got my problem solved. I now have the "Menu" and "Chapters" with highlighted icons. It was as simple as downloading a template from online.

Thanks everyone,

John Windows 7 64-bit 8 GB RAM, x64
AMD Phenom, IIx4 925 Processor
2800 Mhz, 4 Core, 4 Logical Processors
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Phys. Memory 7.99 GB
Available Phys. Memory 5.70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.3 GB