Questions About 18's DVD Menu

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popopplio

Newbie Joined: Oct 16, 2022 17:37 Messages: 6 Offline

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Oct 18, 2022 20:03

I'm currently working on a probably over-the-top DVD project and I've got some questions about making a custom menu for it. Just to put it out now I'm very new to PowerDIrector and for all I know this could be very simple stuff I'm just missing, so if that's the case apologies in advance. Anyways:

1. Is there any way to add different backgrounds / images to different chapter menu pages? Like once I press the a

2. The audio for the root / main menu is short and keeps looping when i set it to be longer and no repeat (the audio in question is almost two minutes long and was planned to be cut around 1:30 - 1:40 min in and I checked off to box to stop after the first time. What happened here??

3. And finally, how do I add seperate subtitles to different titles on one disc??

That's what I got. Any answer helps even if I need to upgrade / change the program. Thank you all in advance!

tomasc

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

Oct 18, 2022 23:48

1.Yes if you do the research. Jeff and ynotfish show how to do this in a search of this forum. It works as I tried it years ago.

2. That original background video may repeat at 9 to 15 seconds. Replace it with a still image or choose one of your own that is say 99 second long or longer and change the setting to a 99 second timeout. See this tutorial: https://youtu.be/X18gbeVSI64 on the scenes menu. You may want to add a first play video instead. Possibilities are endless for the creator.

3. Never heard of this from anyone. If you have added subtitles on a video on a timeline then there will automatically be a subtitle button in the main menu. If you have subtitles in say 3 different languages then you have to have 3 separate video projects, each with a different subtitle language. You would add them to the menu as titles and choose to play, say the selected title only in the menu.

Hope this get you srarted on your menu creation.

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