Create Additional Menus


A single iDVD menu can technically contain up to twelve buttons, but the design theme you choose may not be suitable for that many buttons. Or you may want to organize your content so that additional menus help to create a more effective presentation. In either case, additional menus, or submenus, are often an essential element in DVD design.

Create submenus

Open or create a project that has one main menu, then click the "Folder" button (circled, below-left) to create a button named "My Folder." Double-click this new button to open its new menu, into which you can drag more movies or create more slideshows. A submenu automatically contains a navigation arrow that lets users return to the previous menu.

If you've already placed a number of buttons on a menu and decide you need a submenu, you can select multiple buttons (Shift-click on the buttons), then from the Project menu choose "New Menu from Selection." iDVD replaces the selected buttons with a new button called "My Folder," which links to a new submenu containing the buttons that you selected.

The main menu.

A submenu.

We created the three buttons in the menu above by clicking the "Folder" button at the bottom of the window. The top button's name has been changed from "My Folder" to "Nepal." Each button links to a new submenu, like the one shown to the right.

This submenu contains buttons that link to four different movies. We created these buttons by dragging movies from the Media pane to this submenu's background. iDVD takes care of all the design work.

Notice the "back" arrow in the lower-left corner that iDVD created.

Create a scene menu

Video-editing software, such as iMovie, lets you place chapter markers in a movie to mark specific scenes. If you previously set chapter markers in your movie, iDVD can automatically create scene menus that link to those chapter markers. iDVD can import up to 99 chapter markers for one movie.

To automatically create scene menus

1.

Drag a movie containing chapter markers into an iDVD menu.

iDVD automatically creates two buttons: a "Play Movie" button that plays the movie and a "Scene Selection" button that links to a new submenu. If the menu already contains one or more buttons, iDVD creates a submenu that includes the "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection" buttons.

2.

Double-click the "Scene Selection" button (below-left) to go to its submenu. iDVD automatically created a menu that lists the chapter markers (scenes) as buttons (below-right). iDVD allows a maximum of twelve buttons per menu, and some themes allow less than twelve. If there are more scenes in a movie than a menu allows, a right-facing arrow links to another menu containing more scene selection buttons.

iDVD creates as many submenus as necessary until all chapter markers in a movie have been accommodated, up to the maximum of 99 markers.

The title and text buttons were created automatically, as described above. Double-click the "Scene Selection" button to open a submenu that iDVD also created (shown on the right).

The submenu, its title, and the text buttons that link to the movie's chapter markers were all created automatically. The button names were picked up from the chapter marker names that were set in iMovie. Double-click any button to rename it.



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