Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 255)

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Creating disc menus
Last updated 8/12/2010
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Main menu markers
Main menu markers divide the video into separate movies. Buttons on the main menu link to main menu markers.
You manually place main menu markers to indicate the beginning of each movie that you want listed on the main
menu of your disc. If the main menu template you select contains extra buttons (buttons other than the Play Movie or
Scenes buttons), those buttons link to the main menu markers and play from each marker until reaching a stop marker
or the end of the media in the Timeline. If the main menu does not contain enough main menu marker buttons,
Adobe Premiere Elements duplicates the main menu and adds a Next button on the primary main menu. If you have
no main menu markers in your movie, Adobe Premiere Elements omits the extra buttons from the main menu.
If you use main menu markers, choose a template with at least three main menu buttons. (The first button, Play Movie,
plays the movie from beginning to end. The second, Scenes, links to Scenes Menu 1.)
Important: The Play button on the main menu automatically links to the starting point of the time ruler, so you don’t
need to place a main menu marker there.
Duplicate menus created when a movie contains more main menu markers than buttons on a template
A. Next button leads to duplicate menu B. Previous button returns user to Main Menu 1
Scene markers
Scene markers divide a movie into separate scenes. Scene buttons on the main menu link to different scenes in your
movie and appear on scene menus one after another (not grouped by movie). Use scene markers (without stop
markers) when you want the movie to play from start to finish, and also want your viewer to be able to jump ahead to
specific scenes.
You can add scene markers automatically or manually. Adobe Premiere Elements uses scene markers to create a scene
menu, which is accessible from the Scenes button on the disc main menu. If you have no scene markers in the Timeline,
Adobe Premiere Elements omits the Scenes button and the scenes menu.
A B