Operation Manual

Chapter 9: Disc menus 163
has links to five chapters. Our menu is designed to
display two chapter links per page, so three pages are
required to accommodate all the links. (The second
page is the one appearing in the illustration.) We’ve
also given each page a link to the M2 menu.
The simple layout of this short movie can easily be
extended to organize large numbers of clips. Much
more complex movies are also constructed from the
same elements: multi-page menus with links to
chapters and to other menus.
Availability: Discs with multiple menus are not supported in the SE
and QuickStart versions of Studio.
Disc authoring in Studio
For the purposes of editing in Studio, a disc menu is
just one more type of clip. As with titles, you can use
or adapt the menus provided in the Album, or construct
your own from scratch in the Title Editor (see Chapter
3: The Album and Chapter 10: The Title Editor).
To get a feeling for what is involved, try creating the
pair of “instant” projects described below. You don’t
have to go as far as making discs, but you can preview
your movie using the DVD playback controls on the
Player (see “The DVD Player Control” on page 167).
Instant video scene catalog: In an empty project,
multi-select a good number of scenes from the Album
and drag them onto the video track. Now switch to the
Disc Menu section of the Album (the bottom tab) and
drag any of the menus to the beginning of the Timeline.
When Studio asks if you would like to “automatically