Chapter Menu Thumbnails

ElijahAaron

Newbie Joined: Nov 04, 2020 20:50 Messages: 1 Offline

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Nov 04, 2020 20:56

I am brand new to the software and video editing in general.

I have created a disc with a root menu and chapter menus.

The motion thumbnails for my items look to be zoomed in very tight making the thumbails basically worthless, as you cannot tell what video is shown in that chapter. Is there a way to edit this and make the thumbnails smaller, or at least zoom them out to where you can see which clip it is?

Thanks.

Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Nov 05, 2020 04:03

The answer is in the manual:

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/19/enu/17_02_00_setting_chapter_thumbnails.html

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Nov 05, 2020 08:45

The zoomed in menu thumbnails have been a "feature" for many releases. One can usually remedy by going to "Menu Designer" and then removing the frame and/or mask around the thumbnails. In many cases the thumbnail will revert to a square thumbnail, resize as desired.

Jeff

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Nov 05, 2020 08:58

In addition to what Jeff said the thumbnail can be resized with the freehand tool(blue corner) to a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio rectangle to get the full thumbnail for the particular disc project.

For more advanced users, thumbnails of different shapes can be created that are full frame with a shape overlay. Do a search on the DZ if desired.