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No. You don’t need the root menu. You need to delete all the chapters in both titles and you may want to set the playback mode to play the selected title only. This is the simplest way to achieve what you want.
Hi tomasc,
I realize you're giving me practical advice about how to achieve my desired outcome with an apparently flawed piece of software, but I don't think it's unreasonable to want to be able to create a disc with more than one title and for the titles to have chapters.
If PowerDirector is not able to create a video disc with multiple titles and for the titles to have chapters, I think I'll have to find other video editing software.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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With some help, I've been able to get most of the way to finishing a multi-title project but am hoping to improve it a little bit before I start burning it to disc.
My project has two titles each with chapters.
Currently, the root menu has two text buttons, Play and Scenes.
The Play button plays the first title and the Scenes button takes me to the titles menu.
The titles menu has two buttons, one for each title. These buttons take me to the first chapters menu for each title.
What I hope to do, is to add two buttons to the titles menu that play each title rather than taking me to the chapter menu for that title.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
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I looked for the center-justified text button, but it only seems to be available when editing a particular project, not in the template editor.
Selecting a text box and clicking on the center-justified text button doesn't seem affect the alignment of the text boxes beneath the thumbnails in my chapter menus.
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Yes, they are more limited.
Use mouse and bounding box type selection to select more than one object. The pic I had attached shows chapter 3 thumbnail and chapter 3 text selected, two objects, as seen by the stipple bounding box on each. If only one object selected, horizontally center would align to canvas, nothing else to do. If two objects are selected, horizontally center would align to each other.
Jeff
Thanks, Jeff!
I had been trying to select multiple objects outside the menu template editor using Ctrl+click.
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It almost sounds like you are using the default left justified text box, when you get your real chapter text, the thumbnail and text don't align? An attached pic may help.
You can also simply adjust as shown in pic.
Jeff
Thanks for the reply Jeff!
I was actually in the menu template editor when I aligned the thumbnails and text.
I was able to improve the alignment by selecting the "Align selected objects" option in the bottom right corner of the menu template editor screen when doing the alignment of each thumbnail and text box. It had been set to "Align to canvas".
I'll have to try your suggestion to use the center-justified text option.
The options for alignment outside the menu template editor seem to be more limited. I don't seem to be able to select more than one object to align at a time and I only seem to be able to align with respect to the canvas, so I'm not able to align with respect to other objects.
For now, I've just been "eyeballing" the alignment by dragging text boxes with the mouse pointer when I'm working on a particular instance of a menu.
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I'm trying to create a disc menu with two titles in PowerDirector 16.
I started from scratch by clicking on the Create Menu button.
I added two buttons, for a total of three buttons, to the Titles/Chapters menu and center-aligned the button thumbnails with the button text.
When I preview the menu, the chapter thumbnails and text are center-aligned, but the alignment of the thumbnails and text is off in the title menu.
I cannot seem to find a way to fix this.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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