G'day Bill -

Would you like to:
(a) remove the whole Monopoly menu from the library?
(b) use the menu without the video showing the "Won a trip" card?
or
(c) just use a different menu?

For (a) just right click on the template & choose "Remove from Library".
For (b) - not sure but I'll investigate - the video(s) in question are called Travel Chapter.wmv, Travel_Loop.wmv & Travel_open & are stored in C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector10\Menus\Monopoly\background
For (c) choose a different menu!

Cheers - Tony
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Thanks Tony - Your reply has prompted me to poke around much deeper into the PD tuts. I didn't realize that a Template is mandatory at the start of a PD video.

Ideally I'd like to keep things as simple as I can - just the Default 2D blank title box (uppermost one in the right column of optional title boxes in my copy of PD 10) laid on a Color Board, no chapters, no fancy graphics. No template; just the title on a solid color background. So I guess my question should have been "Is it mandatory to have a template surrounding the title, at the beginning of a PD video?"

I see now that I can modify the background image of the template, even that Monopoly Board template, using one of my own still images. If I have to have a template, I guess that's the way I want to go.

The whole business of introducing Chapters into a video is something I need to put off for a while, as I learn more about the PD program.

Hope this makes sense.

Bill Bill Hansen

Bill -

Now it makes sense!

You don't want ANY menu. Just scroll down to the bottom of the template library and select "No Menu". Your disc will just contain the video you edited in the timeline. When you insert it into your DVD player it will just start automatically (and loop forever if you let it!).

You can just put your title at the front end of the video.

Cheers - Tony
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Thanks again Tony - I've been experimenting with using one of my own still images as the background for the title, and that works fine. In time, I will go on to making a template, using my own images - but for now, this is plenty to absorb!

Bill Bill Hansen

Hi Bill

Just further to what Tony has already said.

I've read on the forum from a member who did extensive testing on using a photographs as the background for his menus (can't find the actual thread) - but he concluded that the best format for your photo was in fact a PNG file NOT a JPEG.

You can 'convert' JPEGs to PNGs using a handy photo editing program called PaintNet - just Google it - it's free.

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Thanks - I'll keep that in mind. So far, the one title clip I've tried using one of my jpgs worked well - but it's very early days for me, with all of this. I think I can convert to png in Photo Shop CS3 too, but of course if jpgs will work, that avoids one step in the process.

Eventually I know I'll have to get into menus and templates. From the couple of hours I spent at them today trying to substitute my own images for the templates, it seems to be an awful lot to wade through. I'm going to avoid it as long as I can.

Bill Bill Hansen

Hi,
Just to add my 2 cents here you can 'Create disc' with out anything in timeline or imported, and create your Menu separately saving as custom menu.
If you know the 'flow' of your finished project sometimes works out better, as then you just tweak it rather than build the whole men item.
Just my thoughts.
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Quote G'day Bill -

Would you like to:
(a) remove the whole Monopoly menu from the library?
(b) use the menu without the video showing the "Won a trip" card?
or
(c) just use a different menu?

For (a) just right click on the template & choose "Remove from Library".
For (b) - not sure but I'll investigate - the video(s) in question are called Travel Chapter.wmv, Travel_Loop.wmv & Travel_open & are stored in C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector10\Menus\Monopoly\background
For (c) choose a different menu!

Cheers - Tony

Hi,
I would like to use option (b) use the menu without the video showing the "Won a trip"card.
I have modified the menu and renamed the template, but I cannot get rid of the intro video. I don't want to disable the original template by deleting a file that it needs from the program files. Where are my modified menus stored?

LaWig3 - This is so easy to do. Go to Create disc/Menu Preferences and uncheck the opening video at the bottom left of the screen. You posted on a 7 year old thread. Things have changed for the better.