Quote: Hello yet again another noob here with a question. So that question is this; I have a video that has 9 chapters and Im trying to make a chapter menu. Now I have made a root menu but when i go to make a chapter menu it only gives me one chapter selection. I have tried to use the menu structure to try and understand what to do, but nothing. so in other words Im just trying to make a simple dvd with one video and multiple chapters, so please help if you can.

You add chapters in the Edit Module, Chapter Room, Second icon from the bottom on the Left.

When you then go into the Create Disk Module you will have a Scenes item on the main menu, click the Scenes will take you to the the chapters menu.

Depending on the Menu template you have, you will have multiple chapters menus.
Some templates have 3 chapters, others have more or less.

Powerdirector has a Menu structure that you can not change, there is always a PLAY and SCENES item on the main menu if you have more than one chapter defined in the Edit module.
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ok thank you for the help, i think i have been over thinking it, because i was trying to make thumbnails instead of just plain text. so ok how do i make thumbnails to show the chapters?

Quote: ok thank you for the help, i think i have been over thinking it, because i was trying to make thumbnails instead of just plain text. so ok how do i make thumbnails to show the chapters?

In the chapter room, you can choose the thumbnail to appear.

The thumbnails are taken from the point in the video where you set the chapter point.
Go into the chapter room and look around.
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thank you very much for the info.

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Powerdirector has a Menu structure that you can not change, there is always a PLAY and SCENES item on the main menu if you have more than one chapter defined in the Edit module.

I just finished my first large project with PD10 - a highlight video from my son's team. For individual games, this structure worked fine, but for a highlight video I did not like it. I wanted to go straight into a menu to select individual game highlights but no intent for a single movie production to string all games together. This is the one glaring weakness I have found in PD so far. Does anyone know if PD plans to provide more Menu flexibility in the future?

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Powerdirector has a Menu structure that you can not change, there is always a PLAY and SCENES item on the main menu if you have more than one chapter defined in the Edit module.

I just finished my first large project with PD10 - a highlight video from my son's team. For individual games, this structure worked fine, but for a highlight video I did not like it. I wanted to go straight into a menu to select individual game highlights but no intent for a single movie production to string all games together. This is the one glaring weakness I have found in PD so far. Does anyone know if PD plans to provide more Menu flexibility in the future?

As Carl312, points out, the menu structure is set in concrete !. I found this , not to my liking. I wanted just a front page with the titles of the videos I wanted to select. I managed to do this by selecting "no menu" and then adding the videos I want from there respective folders by using the "add title" option. If you have all your highlighted videos in a folder you could do the same thing. It then places an icon on the "no menu page" representing the video and you can edit the title of the video on the add titles page. A little trial and error will get it done, I'm certain.

I does leave you with a fairly simple front page, but it gets the job done. Intel Core i7 3770K 3.6 Ghz,
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I managed to do this by selecting "no menu" and then adding the videos I want from there respective folders by using the "add title" option. If you have all your highlighted videos in a folder you could do the same thing. It then places an icon on the "no menu page" representing the video and you can edit the title of the video on the add titles page. A little trial and error will get it done, I'm certain.

I does leave you with a fairly simple front page, but it gets the job done.

The problem with the "No Menu" option is it does not show up on a standard DVD player.

No Menu means that there is No menu on the DVD.

What you are describing is for the edit screen only, it never shows up on the actual DVD.

With the no menu option and adding more Titles, you can switch titles with a button on your player's remote. But you will never see any screen with a selection.

You can do a few things with the Scenes/Chapter menu. In PD it means you have to click Scenes to begin with to see the underlying structure.

Editors have wanted Cyberlink to provide a Text based menu system for years. Give us a choice of Thumbnails or Text links.

There are competitors that have Text based menu systems.
Just look at some of the commercial DVDs you can buy in the store.
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I managed to do this by selecting "no menu" and then adding the videos I want from there respective folders by using the "add title" option. If you have all your highlighted videos in a folder you could do the same thing. It then places an icon on the "no menu page" representing the video and you can edit the title of the video on the add titles page. A little trial and error will get it done, I'm certain.

I does leave you with a fairly simple front page, but it gets the job done.

The problem with the "No Menu" option is it does not show up on a standard DVD player.

No Menu means that there is No menu on the DVD.

What you are describing is for the edit screen only, it never shows up on the actual DVD.

With the no menu option and adding more Titles, you can switch titles with a button on your player's remote. But you will never see any screen with a selection.

You can do a few things with the Scenes/Chapter menu. In PD it means you have to click Scenes to begin with to see the underlying structure.

Editors have wanted Cyberlink to provide a Text based menu system for years. Give us a choice of Thumbnails or Text links.

There are competitors that have Text based menu systems.
Just look at some of the commercial DVDs you can buy in the store.

Thanks for the update, I didn't realize that. So back to the original menus and live with it.. Intel Core i7 3770K 3.6 Ghz,
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Editors have wanted Cyberlink to provide a Text based menu system for years. Give us a choice of Thumbnails or Text links.

There are competitors that have Text based menu systems.
Just look at some of the commercial DVDs you can buy in the store.

Altering the menu module they have now to allow more flexibility for the user simply can't be that hard. I have been using Pinnacle for years and want off that train. PD has everything to kick them to the curb except a good menu system. Its a shame Cyberlink isn't listening if people have asked for years for menu flexibility. Now I have to use another vendor's menu system to get what I want. If I have to buy additional software to handle menus, I may as well go back to the competitor's product. This just makes no sense for Cyberlink to not offer more menu flex given the rest of the product being so much better than the competition's.

Exactly the same problem. I have a number of short family movies. Each about a minute to 5 minutes long.

With previous versions of PD it was possible to put all these short movies on one DVD and have a simple start up menu with a thumnail of each segment.

Now you have to have some sort of intro like a monopoly game.

Yes you can use the No Menu option. But then you literally have no menu. When the DVD starts to play it just starts with the first segment and you cannot skip to the thumbnail you want.

Cyberlink, not everyone of your customers wants to use PIP effects and all the other razzle dazzle. They just want a simple method to put their family movies together.

Powerdirector still has some simple menus.

You have to preview the menu to see if it has a video before the actual menu shows.
You can also download menus from Director Zone.

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I made a concert video where each song is chaptered, and I made animated video chapter menus where the user can select a song. Here's the problem: it works fine on the computer (you can select and click on each of the chapters using the mouse pointer) but on a regular DVD player it does not let you highlight the chapter you want or select it. (I've tried it on 3 different DVD players and it doesn't work.) Yes, I could just hit play and "skip" to the chapter I want, but I'd rather be able to highlight an individual song from the chapter menu and hit enter and have that song start.

How do you make a menu where you can highlight the chapter icon you want using a DVD remote controller?

Thanks in advance!

Wait, I think Carl312 may have answered my question here...
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23923.page#129757
"If you want to be able to Play a single Title, you create a Menu using Titles and not Chapters."

Looks like I need to create separate TITLES for each song, not separate chapters, right?

Makes me wonder what the point of making a chapter is...

So you can get the functionality you described in your post above. That is to skip to places (bookmark= chapter) in one title. .
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Quote: Wait, I think Carl312 may have answered my question here...
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23923.page#129757
"If you want to be able to Play a single Title, you create a Menu using Titles and not Chapters."

Looks like I need to create separate TITLES for each song, not separate chapters, right?

Makes me wonder what the point of making a chapter is...

You can use chapters for each song, it means that you go to the scenes menu then to that song. There are usually only three Chapters per page (songs).

Most DVD players use the Title or 'Top Menu' button on the remote to return to the menu.

If you want to return to the menu after playing one song (Title) you must use Titles and select that option in the playback mode.
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