Adobe Premiere Elements 12 - Manual (Page 252)

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Add menu, scene, or stop markers manually
When you manually add markers, you can name them as you place them. The name you choose appears as the label for a button in the main
menu or scenes menu.
On some templates, the menu buttons include thumbnail images of the video to which they are linked. If the default frame does not represent the
best frame for a button, you can change it in the Menu Marker dialog box.
Add a main menu marker or scene marker
1. In the Expert view timeline, move the current-time indicator to the location where you want to set the marker.
The Play button on each main menu template automatically links to the start point of the time ruler. You don’t have to place a marker
there unless you want it listed in the scenes menu.
2. In the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, select Markers > Menu Marker > Set Menu Marker.
To quickly place a marker, you can also drag a marker from the Add Menu Marker button to the desired location in the time ruler.
3. In the Menu Marker dialog box, type a name for the marker in the box. Text in this box doesn’t wrap, so to place text on multiple lines, press
Ctrl+Enter for each new line. Keep the name of the marker short so that it fits in the menu and doesn’t overlap another button. (You can
adjust the name later, after you select a template.)
4. In the Marker Type menu, select the type of marker you want to set.
5. Do one of the following to set the appearance of the button thumbnail:
To select a still image for the button thumbnail in the menu, drag the Thumbnail Offset timecode to the frame with the image you want.
Do not select the Motion Menu Button option. When you create the DVD, Web DVD, or Blu-ray Disc, the image appears in the menu.
(This thumbnail is for the menu display only. When you click the button on the disc, the video starts playing at the marker location.)
To play video in the disc’s menu button, select Motion Menu Button. When you select this option for a main menu marker or scene
marker, the corresponding button in the menu becomes animated.
6. Click OK.
The marker is added to the Expert view timeline, below the time ruler. A main menu marker is blue, a scene marker is green, and a stop marker is
red.
Add a stop marker
1. In the Expert view timeline, move the current-time indicator to the end of the video or scene.
2. In the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, select Markers > Menu Marker > Set Menu Marker.
3. In the Menu Marker dialog box, select Stop Marker from the Marker Type menu.
4. Click OK.
The marker is added to the Quick view timeline. In the Expert view timeline, the marker is added below the time ruler.
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