User Guide

Chapter 7 Creating Menus Using the Standard Method 295
Create Button and Chapter Index
Note: If the menu contains no buttons, drop zones, or text objects, then this option
changes to Create Chapter Index. Instead of creating a separate menu as the first chapter
index menu, this menu is used. Additional chapter index menus are created if necessary.
• Creates a button on this menu to link to the first of the new chapter index menus.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus, depending on the number of
markers and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can choose the template
or layout style to use for the chapter index menus.
• Links each chapter marker from the track to buttons on the chapter index menus.
• Assigns the video from each marker to its button’s thumbnail.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Dragging an Existing Track to a Button
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
Set Asset
The default action.
• Sets the video from the first video clip of stream 1 to be the button’s thumbnail image.
• Adds a link from the button to the first marker of the track.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
Connect to Track
• Adds a link from the button to the first marker of the track.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).
The button’s thumbnail does not change.
Set Asset and Create Chapter Index
• Links the button to the first of the new chapter index menus.
• Sets this track to be the button’s thumbnail image.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus, depending on the number of
markers and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can choose the template
or layout style to use for the chapter index menus.
• Links each chapter marker from the track to buttons on the chapter index menus.
• Assigns the video from each marker to its button’s thumbnail.
• Sets the track’s End Jump setting to this menu (if it has not already been set).