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Thanks for the tips Carl3213 - certainly creations from users have done wonders within the constraints of PD Menu Creator. At least I have a solution for having item names without thumbnails, you just hide them!
Its the lack of flexibility as Russell1967 highlighted, two stock menus plus a subtitled one is not always enough, and the Main Menu feature in PD forces you into compromising original design thoughts. This is a shame as so far have found that PD video editing does whatever I want, the DVD creator is to my mind the opposite. Agree if Cyberlink offered a fully featured and flexible DVD/Blu-Ray authoring software at a reasonable price, I would rush out and buy it. As it stands PD offers a fully featured video editing suite, with a limited DVD/Blu-Ray menu creation facility.
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Recently upgraded to Power Director 12, and must say for general editing of videos cannot fault the programme. The new multi-cam is a great feature, and can sync sound from multiple clips to boot. I've found it best not to overload this feature with too many clips and to keep the time of the clips down. i.e. If you're computer can't cope with half an hour or so of main footage plus added clips, try a smaller time cut of main footage.
However the Menu Creator function as far as I can see, lets the overall program down. Compared to the freeware DVD Styler there are numerous basic functions that I have not found a way of doing. I'm putting this out to forum to see if anyone has any workarounds to the following.
1. The only menu options appear to be Main, Scenes, & Subtitles (if used). There are other desirable sub menus, such as 'Special Features', 'Gallery' etc. commonly seen in commercial disks. Is there any way that Power Director can do these?
2. Is their any way of doing text only links? Thumbnails are all very well, but if overused can make the production look amateurish. Most commercial disks use simple Text Links to scenes, extra features etc.
3. Leading on from the above point, there appears little options available for thumbnails. Such as selecting start and finish of the clip. The default appears to be the beginning of the clip, in some cases this may be just the first clips title credits - not normally what you want on a thumbnail.
4. The Menu structure appears to be inflexible and linked to the number of buttons available on the template, and sub menu pages follows from there. A 3 button menu template means that for 13 titles you have five sub pages. The first four will have three thumbnail links, and the last page only one. Is their anyway of controlling this behaviour.
Some of the above may be 'old chesnuts', but it is disappointing to see what looks to me the same Menu limitations on Power Director 12 as its previous versions. Would welcome any advice and workarounds on resolving the above.
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