instead of making a video with a menu on a dvd i thought i would try just making a video to play on the 12 year old TV. MP4  did not look good. what is the best ? the movie will be 1 hour long   is a menu doable? thanks all 

Great ideas. thanks very much everyone 

i can put text, ovals and blocks in. how do i put an arrow shape in? it only seems to recognise jpgs which of course are blocks. i made one psd and a gif.  hope every one is keeping safe. thanks all  

boring yes, but it is only elevator background music. so yes put it in two parts. thanks guys 

Is there anyway of making the inbuilt music play longer than 30 minutes? thanks all 

ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE CORRECT i put them all in as images. it did not crash. also i remembered to keep deleting auxiliary files. now to the menu links and music    Thank you very much   

if i tried to make a dvd with 20 times 26 images i doubt either pinnacle or windows 7 would let me! something would crash! avchd is that a file type i can make with pinnacle 12? thanks for your help and patience! 

create 26 files in pinnacle studio 12.1 then, computer permitting, start a new project with a menu and the 26 files divided in to 2 menu things  thanks   10 files were 265GB and there was no more room on the laptop memory, so we are using a separate drive to park them. 

''Why are you constantly talking about ''making files'' ? You are editing video clips in Studio, and I repeat, whatever their size, Studio will make a DVD with them.'' read the first post! i will be making 26 files and then putting them on the DVD and hopefully bluray so why take up the resource space with needlessly large ...

saby:In Studio, whatever the size of the files you add to the timeline, if you export a DVD, everything will be re-encoded to fit the disk. You have nothing else to do than launch the DVD export with the ''Fit to disk'' option. 12.1 - i cannot find a FIT TO DISK option is it ''automatic quality'' ? also how does kbits/sec now at 8500 affect ...