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Adding menus to an iDVD project

Depending on which theme you choose, the menus in your iDVD project can hold either 6 or 12 buttons. If you need more buttons on a menu than your theme allows, or if you need additional menus to organize the content of your DVD, you can create submenus.

Submenus give you flexibility in organizing your DVD. For example, perhaps you have several slideshows in your project. You can create a button on your main menu that links to a slideshow submenu that includes links to each of your slideshows. You can also create submenus for additional movies, extra features, and so on.

To add a submenu:

Step 1

Make sure the menu to which you want to add a submenu is showing in the iDVD window.

Step 2

Click the Add button (shown below), and choose Add Submenu from the pop-up menu.

A placeholder button labeled My Submenu appears on the menu. It has the default button style for the theme, so you may need to change it to match other buttons on the menu.

Image of the Add button
Step 3

Click the placeholder label for the new button once to highlight it, and type a new name for the button.

When you click the label to highlight it, a light blue background appears behind the text.

Step 4

Using the pop-up menus in the in-place control that appears (shown below), change the typeface, font style, and font size of the button name if you want.

Image of menu title selected with in-place editor showing below it

To open the new submenu, double-click the newly added button. Notice that iDVD automatically applies the Extras menu style from your project’s theme to the submenu. Also, a Back button that returns to the previous menu appears on the submenu. You can now edit this menu just as you edit any other menu, changing its theme if you want. You can even use the Add button to create buttons that navigate to sub-submenus.

For more information about creating submenus, see Related Topics below.

Related Topics

Changing the appearance of buttons

Creating a submenu with existing buttons

Creating a scene selection menu

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