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Other buttons cause a transfer to another menu, or to another page of
the same menu. Multipage menus, with each page displaying several
chapter buttons along with automatically-managed navigation
buttons, facilitate productions of almost any size. However, there is a
limit of 99 on the total number of chapters and return markers
allowed in a single production.
The Menu List
Unlike timeline clips, the menus in your production are not bound to
a particular time offset. Instead, a disc player will loop the menu
until user interaction is received.
Because menus exist ‘outside of time’, Pinnacle Studio provides the
Menu List, a special area above the Disc Editor timeline to
accommodate the menus in your project. Dragging a menu from the
Library into the Menu List makes it available for use in your project.
Designing menu interactivity
A disc production may contain just one menu, or it may have many.
Each menu contains graphically distinct areas, generically called
‘buttons’, that can be activated by the viewer, perhaps using the
navigation keys on a DVD remote control.
The behavior of disc menu buttons can be set up using controls in
the Disc Editor window. Alternatively, you can invoke the Chapter
Wizard to create and configure a set of buttons automatically
according to your chosen settings.
Activating a button either starts your movie playing back from a
chosen point, or transfers control to another menu with its own
buttons. The possible targets for menu buttons are:
• A timeline location: Upon activation, playback resumes from a
chosen frame. The location, and the content found there, are
referred to as a ‘chapter’ of your movie.
• Another menu: Buttons can link to any menu in the Menu List.
• Another page of the same menu: Multipage menus always
include next and previous buttons for navigating between their
pages.