Richard,

The current menu system in PD7 release 2206 does not allow return to main after chapter play. Do a search, many posts covering this topic. Hopefully CL will add the feature in a future release.

Jeff

Hi,

These are several problems I have found when using the Create disk section.

Trimming audio you want to hear for the menu just doesn't work. I wanted the music to start playing at around 20 seconds into the song but after setting it to exactly the right positon it ignores the setting & plays the song from the start on the finished DVD.

If you click on the preview tab the music doesn't play at all! So you have no idea that it isn't right until you've burnt the disk.

If you alter any of the menu wording or remove audio etc & then go into modify to change something else, when you return all the changes you've made have reverted back to default. i.e. text has all changed back to "my videos", all the music has been added back in. Very annoying after you've just finished changing all the text on all the screens & then have to go & do it all over again.

Even though I made sure the music didn't appear on the chapter pages, when the disc was burnt it still played the God awful music that I didn't want. The only music that it played that I wanted was on the main screen - except that it played from the start of the song instead of where I had told it. (see above problem)

Highlighting doesn't work. This has been noted before though.

As far as I am concerned, the editing part of PD7 is great. I love it, but the DVD menu creation section has always been bad. If Cyberlink can't integrate a good DVD authoring section into PD then they should take it out altogether or just keep it very simple & make sure it works properly. If people want to create a better DVD menu I would advise to use a different program. At the moment it is very clunky & is full of bugs.

I've experienced all the problems you have just outlined.

I guess, for the time being, I'll just use PD for rendering it as a file and use another menu creating program for the creation of the menu and burning.

That's really too bad, though.

I'm surprised CyberLink seems so unaware of these glaring problems. I mean, if you can't import, edit, and burn a disc from beginning to end, all with one program - what's the point?

As it stands, PD is not a all-in-one program.

I found an easy way to trim audio files for use in the menus. Use itunes. Here is the link:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041230224327722
Hope it helps someone. Your post helped me not spend too much time trying to make it work.