First, I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple different clips on one DVD. What I mean by this is for example, I'd like to produce a DVD that has both a video and a slideshow. I realize that I can edit them both together and put a chapter inbetween, but would I would ideally like to do is have these displayed as two separate clips, each with their own set of chapters. This is something that can be done with Ulead MovieFactory (which I currently am looking to replace), but I couldn't find a way to do it in PowerDirector.
Also, in regards to slideshows. Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that there are two ways I could go about creating a slideshow. I can either add the images to the timeline and manually add the desired transitions/effects and background music, or I could click the "slideshow" button after adding them to my timeline, which will allow me to use one of the pre-build slideshow templates to construct it. However, from what I can tell, these slideshow templates are very limited as to the ability to customize individual slides. For example, if I want to pan and zoom on one image, but not the others, I couldn't see a way to do this through the slideshow builder. Is this generally correct, or am I missing something. Also within the given slideshow builder templates, I saw now way to change the default transition. Some of these I can understand have their own specialized transition, but the "Normal" one, seems to just randomly pick a transition. Is there a way to pick a single transition for the entire show. Again, I seem to be able to do this if I don't use the slideshow builder and leave my images on the timeline and manually put the slideshow together myself, but that can be rather cumbersome.