Adding additional chapters to a page...

Example:  I have 8 chapters on the timeline.  I want them all to appear on one page.

1.  Add markers to timeline as needed
2.  Open the DVD Wizard
3.  Choose a menu from the selections available, double click your choice
4.  By pass the options of automatically adding chapter points
5.  Open the menu in the Menu editor
6.  Select the available menu items/chapters by holding the CTL key and clicking until all are selected
7.  Click on the corner of the multiple selection marquee
8.  Drag, position and and resize until menus are of suitable size to accomodate the 8 chapter points
9.  Ctl-click on menus to be aligned and use the alignment tool
10. Click on and highlight the last menu
11. Use the Ctl-C to copy
12. Use Ctl-V to create additional menu items as desire
13. Highligh items, position them and use the alignment menu to position.  Add modifications to the background, highlight colors, buttons, etc.
14. Close the Menu editor to return to DVD editor
15. Click on the AutoLink tab and click in the Sequence Marker box
16. Choose "Apply".  There are now 8 chapter Icons on the single page
17. Double click each text box and change menu text
18. Select the "Links" tabe
19. Click on each of the chapter picons to access that chapter on the timeline
20  Scub the timeline at each chapter point to locate an appropriate chapter picon
21. Click on the Set picon button in the DVD menu bar

 

Also note:

The Menu Editor can also be used to delete existing chapter points, then reposition and re-size those remaining in the event that only a couple of chapters points are required.

 

Thanks for the tip Andy.  I really prefer my menus to fit on one page if at all possible.

 

Great tip Andy. Another one that I'll be adding to my huge PDF folder of tips.

     Hello astevens,

 

   I use Liquid system for a few years and I am very satisfied.

But for moment I have a big problem with DVD menus, in Avid Liquid 7 with sp2 patch.

    Concrete I made a DVD with animated background (ex: avi or mov file) and animated menu buttons (fuse sequence or files from camera captures).

    When I played this DVD on every kind of player, the movie files from menu buttons appear like fish skin.

I wonder why because I made the same thing on the Liquid Edition pro (on a system more older) and works great.

    From start I tell you that in the DVD menu editor I checked the "background is transparent" and in DVD options I checked "Snapshot settings - use background video and deinterlace".  

My system is following:

  Avid Liquid 7 Pro with SP2 patch. The project is Pal standard 4/3 or 16/9 had the same results. 

MB Gigabyte 81865GME 775 (chipset Intel), Proc. Intel pentium Core 2 DuoE4500 2,2 Ghz,  2 Gb Ram DDR, Video Board Gigabyte Ati Radeon 9600 pro DH (AGP 8x, Direct x9), Cretive SoundBlaster, DVDRec Plextor, 500Gb HDD Western Digital, etc.

  I work with Sony VX2100.

  If you could help me with some advices, to solve my problem, I thank you very much in advance.
 

 

 

 

 

Why did you check snapshot settings? I would undo that and try again. I never touch any of those settings and have not seen this issue.

If I may make a comment about menus in general:  I quit using the video window buttons for anything over two chapters because you really can't see what is in them anyway.

For buttons, I use text boxes.  Make the text box no larger than necessary for the chapter title.  After you make the text box, click on the button selections and you will see a box in the upper tight hand corner that says "Not a button".  Click on that drop down list and select "Normal button."  Make sure that the text boxes do not overlap and are lined up neatly left to right and vertically.  I have made menus with as many as twelve buttons this way.  And the text in the buttons is readable, which is not always the case when the text is in a smaller box under a video window or some other icon.  I should also add that I always start with a blank menu from the library.

I hope this is helpful to someone.