Pinnacle Studio - DVD menu with motion backround and thumbn.

Is it correct to put chapter numbers before menu (on timeline)? On PC it works, but when DVD is made it does not work properly.
I.e. I would like that the menu would show in the end of my DVD project. Is it possible with Studio 8 or 9?

Thanks,

Linas

Originally Posted by donpedro

Originally Posted by linas

I.e. I would like that the menu would show in the end of my DVD project. Is it possible with Studio 8 or 9?

Any specific reason doing that ?

I would like that the show would begin as dvd is loaded (not using remote control).

I've been trying to get my menu's to work for awhile. It seems that when I go into DVD preview mode and test the menus they work fine, but after I burn the vcd they don't respond at all in my set top dvd player or pc dvd player. I burned another vcd in which I set the chapters manually, everything seems to check out fine I just cant figure out what I'm missing. I'm using Pinnacle Studio 9 and so far things have been working okay but this whole menu issue has me totally stumped...it seems simple enough but it's just not working. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

I'm using two levels of menus within Pinnacle, where the top level menu links to the other menus. The problem that I have is that when I use for example the second button of the main menu to go to a sublevel menu, the also the second button of that menu is initially highlighted, and not the first button as I would expected. Similarly, if I use the fifth button of the top level menu to go to another menu, then the fifth button of that menu is initially highlighted. It seems as if the button variable is not reset. Does anyone recognize this problem, and if yes know how to solve this?
Thanx.

Does this method work on Pinnacle 11 Plus version? I tried dragging a Menu to the Title/Overlay and it does not allow me too add it there, only on the video track.

Any ideas?

never mind my post, saw on pinnacle forums that this was removed on version 9 and found a way to add it using version 11..cool!

now can I add music to the motion menu or menu at all? if so how?

Has anyone had trouble with motion thumbnails on pages 2+ on Pinnacle menus? Every time I try a thumbnailed-menu (rather than a pure text menu), the first page renders fine, but pages 2 and further render as green screens. The menu items are there as shadows, that I can use the menu buttons to navigate on screen, but no background, text or thumbnails appear. I've tried everything that Pinnacle support suggests, including flushing the cache and rerendering the menus and turning background rendering on (or off - conflicting advice on their site) but none of them seem to help the issue. I've been sticking to text-only menus unless I have only 3 or 4 thumbnails on a level.

Originally Posted by mpinter

Has anyone had trouble with motion thumbnails on pages 2+ on Pinnacle menus? Every time I try a thumbnailed-menu (rather than a pure text menu), the first page renders fine, but pages 2 and further render as green screens. The menu items are there as shadows, that I can use the menu buttons to navigate on screen, but no background, text or thumbnails appear. I've tried everything that Pinnacle support suggests, including flushing the cache and rerendering the menus and turning background rendering on (or off - conflicting advice on their site) but none of them seem to help the issue. I've been sticking to text-only menus unless I have only 3 or 4 thumbnails on a level.

I have precisely the same problem as you mpinter. The menu turns green on the 2nd level of the menu and I get an Export error. Project renders fine with tect-only menus....Did you resolve this problem? I also tried all suggestions from Pinnacle support but nothing seems to work!

Originally Posted by naudiram

I have precisely the same problem as you mpinter. The menu turns green on the 2nd level of the menu and I get an Export error. Project renders fine with tect-only menus....Did you resolve this problem? I also tried all suggestions from Pinnacle support but nothing seems to work!

Unfortunately, naudiram, I've never fixed this. I've resigned myself to either using pure text-only menus (which don't seem to green-screen on me when they go 2+ pages) or I limit my smaller menus to 4 or 5 thumbnails on page 1. I, too, tried all of the tips from Pinnacle to no benefit. If anyone else out there has a suggestion, pleas let us know!

Thanks. If it is of any help I went round the problem by creating a main menu which links to a series of submenus. Therefore pg 2 of a menu is really and truly another sub menu....but this involves a lot of work and is still not the same thing!

This does not work in Pinnacle 12 for me. If i try and drag a menu onto the title track it says only pictures text and transitions can go on the title track. So, did pinnacle get a downgrade?

The manual says you should be able to drag and drop video to make your own motion menus, but that doesn't work in Studio 10. However, I got it to work another way. Drop a menu onto the video track then edit the menu, select the background option, and then select the video clip you want as the background instead of a still, it works just fine. This works with Studio 10 Plus - maybe it works with other versions as well?

I have Pinnacle Studio 12 and this is indeed not available.
The menu properties doesn't even have the "Motion Thumbnail" option. See attached.

Ah, you are talking about motion thumbnails and indeed, that option doesn't seem to be available in your version - definite downgrade. I am talking about a motion background for the menu itself - behind the thumbnails. The solution for a motion background I indicated is found when you are in edit menu (available on the top right corner of your screen), at least in 10 plus.

How can I make my menu longer? It ends after 11 seconds? That's too short, how can I make that longer?

Originally Posted by Stridj

How can I make my menu longer? It ends after 11 seconds? That's too short, how can I make that longer?

I have the same problem, when I make bluray menu with a stabe background, but when I make DVD menu it's fine. It's also fine when I use motion background.

I don't understand. Did you find any solution yet?