Oops, as pointed out the above thread is not talking about Text only PD Menus, but Director's Zone. But this is what I figured out about Text only PD Menus, encase your search lands you here.
Resolution
(Not):
I can show you how to hide your Buttons, but unless you only want 4 text items on the screen it may not help at least not for high definition. After I followed my own instructions below and the preview looked good, I clicked Burn and got this error: grrrrr
"One of the menu pages contains more buttons than is allowed. The maximum number of buttons a page can have within high resolution is 4."
I tried Burning it as just a DVD, but got a xvidcore.dll not found error and then an out of memory error. Once I reverted back to a regular menu the xvidcore error went away.
Even though I have hid the buttons on the screen, PD still produces the video for the buttons, which it assumes is too much to put on a single menu and even though we can't see the Buttons, may be too much of a drag when played.
1) Modify your Menu.
2) Edit: Titles/Chapters Menus
3) Select just the Button by itself and grab the right corner handle, just shrink it until it disappears.
4) Repeat for each Button.
5) Add more Buttons, click in an open spot so the Button and Item is unselected, then select just the Button and repeat above.
6) Line the Items up is probably the hardest part, but turn on grids and TV Safe Zone.
7) if you line up 7 items on left fairly close to what you want, select Align Left and it will at least make them line up vertically. Getting even spacing between isn't an item, but hopefully they will add that in the future. This will greatly reduce the number of menus people have to click through.
Turn on 2x2 Grid, then you could add 7 more buttons, repeat and align to center grid vertical line.
9) You can add up to 14 buttons total. I was shooting for 16, but after 14 the +Button icon was grayed out.
10) If you got this far you wasted your time as PD won't let you burn it.
This message was edited 4 times. Last update was at Oct 01. 2010 14:12
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