Create and look into making 'Title' Pages. Title page 1 ... something like 'First Period', Title page 2... "second Period'...etc...

There's YouTube videos - PD Toots... search on PD or PowerDirector Title Designer. There is a bunch of older PD versions that have some tutorials that can still give you some information on how to create your own 'title' pages. They're worth a look sometimes to learn how to create a title page.

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Hi, CliffG1!

It's quite easy to do what you're trying to do, I'll take you through the process, step-by-step. This, of course assumes you're not using any more than one video track(Dideo Track 1 - master track).

1) Using a colour board(which can be found by clicking where it says "Media Content", choose the black colour and drop it on the time line, might be an idea to set it at 10 seconds rather than 5, gives the viewer a bit more time to read the captions. Add your first clip, which will form the first "chapter" of your video.

2) Adding the "Title", click on the 'T' to enter the "Title Room", probably the default template will suffice for this excercise, Drop this onto the Title Track(or, as I've found in PD14, you can also use the Video Track 2 as a title track), click on the "My Title" in the timeline and type in your text(you might want to play around a bit with the layout of the text - but that's for later experimentation, we'll keep it simple for now).

Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the subsequent two chapters. Okay, once you've done that, now it's time to add the chapter points.

3) For this part of the process, go to the "Chapter Room" second-from-bottom, down left side of screen, hover your cursor over each icon there and that will tell you what each icon represents. On entering the Chapter Room, the first chapter is automatically added, but for this purpose, well be using "Manual Chapter Settings". Move the scrubber to the start of your second chapter, click on "C+", this will add the second chapter(the first was automatically inserted), now move the scrubber to the start of your third chapter and click again on the C+. Chapters are now added. Process complete!

If you intend to burn a disc from this, just go straight to "Create Disc". Follow the prompts and you'll have a DVD of your baseball match. When you've done this a few times, you may want to start experimenting with title fonts and effects, but that's for you to play around with later. For now I've kept it simple and straight-forward.

Cheers!

Neil.

Thanks Neil. Just doing this, and when I went to the Titler Pro enter text, nothing happened for a couple of seconds, then the PDR.exe failed notice came up in a report box. I am using PD14.0.2019.0. It did this twice, so there must be an issue with this. When I used the default title it was okay, I could modify it. The problem I now have is that the smallest font size is 16. When I go to menu preferences the preview box on chapters seems to be related to the size of the font, so no matter what size I make it, it cuts off some of the chapter title. Maybe Titler Pro would fix that but it crashes. Any ideas on that?
Thanks for all your help. Cliff

Hi, CliffG1!

Titler Pro? Is that a stand-alone tool outside Power Director?, I've always used the titling facility within Power Director itself for titles and/or captions and have thus far had no real problems in that department. Same goes for titles/captions in other video editing software other than Power Director. I guess I just "play it safe" on that score. In the Menu Designer, the headings(My Video, Play, Scenes) are not necessarily fixed in their spot on the screen. They can be manipulated into any spot that you choose, likewise in the chapter pages of the menu. The Menu Designer is quite flexible in this regard. You can also move the thumbnails(representative images for the chapter, or in the main screen, usually the first image of the "movie" itself), These can be shifted around on the screen to suit your desired appearance, particularly if you're trying to get around the problem of near-overlapping headings. Don't be afraid to "play around" with the menu layouts.

Cheers!

Neil.

Hi Neil, thanks again for your time.
I'm afraid I wasn't clear in my explanations. Titler Pro is the bottom right option on the Title page, when you are picking which title page you want. In the box are the words "enter text". I used the title page default in the end as you suggested you did.
The problem I had was that if the chapter starts with the chapter title page for 5 secs, then the thumbnail picks that up. The font is nominally 16 (smallest) on the title page, but will not fit in the thumbnail. Resizing the thumbnail to the biggest just blows up the title as well, so it still won't fit. I tried deleting so text only shows, no thumbnail but on preview the thumbnail comes back, again with half of the chapter title showing. I am sure there is a way around this, but PD14 is not really intuitive for relative newbies. Have a good one down under. Cliff

Hi, CliffG1!

Maybe it's me not being observant but I've not noticed "Titler Pro" in PD14(I use PD14 Ultra, you're likely using PD14 Ultimate and therein may lie the difference). In most cases, my titles are created as graphics that I insert on the PiP track, and the title function is generally used just to insert some captions through my videos and a "closing credit" sequence at the end, so Titler Pro may not offer much for me by way of usefulness. The remainder of your situation may solve itself in time through experimentation, just keep plugging away at it it and you may come across a suitable solution, that's how a lot of problems are generally solved on this website, and the details of these solutions usually get posted in these forum pages.

Cheers!

Neil.

Hi Neil,
Thanks for all your help, I found an old forum on this from February, others were having the same problem, and I did manage to get what I wanted. I phrased the question differently, so Google did not direct me there initially. The zoom in on the thumbnails appears to have been out there forever and many complain about it, but the menu preferences do not seem to have the same amount of development that the rest of the program does.
All the best, and thanks again, Cliff P.S Know any other Granshaws in NSW?

Quote: P.S Know any other Granshaws in NSW?

Hi, CliffG1!

I'm afraid you've lost me on that P.S.! Who, or what is a "Granshaw"? Sorry, don't wish to appear ignorant. Is it a family name in Australia related to yours in Canada, perhaps?

Cheers!

Neil.

Yes, just threw that in, it is my family and there is a branch in Oz. Would be funny if they lived next door to you. Internet is wonderful, isn't it?
Best to all, Cliff

Quote: Yes, just threw that in, it is my family and there is a branch in Oz. Would be funny if they lived next door to you. Internet is wonderful, isn't it?
Best to all, Cliff

Hi, CliffG1!

It would certainly be funny if I came across anyone by that name in my travels. Quite a coincidence, really! I live in a region 40-or-so minutes' drive north of Newcastle. It's a coastal area known as a holiday destination during Summer. There are a few more Aussies participating on this forum from Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia or the Northern Territory, who knows, perhaps one or more of them may be members of that family, Good luck in finding that branch of your "family tree". Meanwhile, back to the topic, Power Director has "evolved" through the years since the forum posts you sought to find answers to your chapter problems. Not all of those evolutions have been worthwhile, but it does take a bit of "tinkering", a bit of "fiddling round the edges" to get the result you're chasing, so just keep plugging away at it!

Cheers!

Neil.