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SwedishKiwi
SwedishKiwi
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May 1, 2018
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Multi-page menus not working

  • May 1, 2018
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Hello,

I'm putting together a dvd that has 20 small clips I want to link to from a menu. I built a menu in Photoshop and imported it to Encore, only to learn that you cannot have more than 18 links in one page...

So I decided to create a multi-page menu instead, with two pages having 10 links on each page.

But I cannot get it to work..! When I click the link to the other page, it just remains on the same page.

I've looked at the help files here at Adobe, searched the forum and looked at a YouTube video showing how to do a multi-page menu. I followed all instructions, but just as the commenters on the YT page says, it doesn't work. Some claim it is a bug.

Is it a bug? Or are we all missing something?

My setup is quite simple:

Ten links/buttons in a menu, with one link/button pointing to a link/button on page 2 in the menu. The second page is in a group in Photoshop called (#) SecondPage. I'm never able to access those links/buttons in the second page.

Any ideas?

/ Kiwi

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Correct answer Stan Jones

Yes, you can link many things. But DVD does not have "multipage" menus - each menu is only one "page" as defined in the spec. Only Blu-ray has "multipage" menus.

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Paul Alexx
Participating Frequently
May 7, 2018

Kiwi,

you need to link the ”next” button to the next menu page not to the button on the next page!!

Stan I am sorry to say you are wrong.

You can have many, many menus linked back and forth even on a DVD.

My “claim to fame” is a 400+ page history book virtually all made of menus edited in Photoshop!! One menu equals one page with links....

Stan Jones
Stan JonesCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 7, 2018

Yes, you can link many things. But DVD does not have "multipage" menus - each menu is only one "page" as defined in the spec. Only Blu-ray has "multipage" menus.

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Paul Alexx
Participating Frequently
May 8, 2018

Stan,

I apologise, I've jumped the gun!

I didn't distinguish between "multipage menus" and "multiple menus".

Stan Jones
Stan Jones
Community Expert
May 1, 2018

You don't say, so I'll mention that DVD does not support multipage, only BD. If by any chance you are making a DVD, it will collapse the menu into one.

Second, it can be odd to access the pages/buttons not in page 0. You can do this through the menu panel (the appearance in the menu viewer does not change) or the layers panel (the appearance in the menu viewer does change). Edit: Forgot to add that you can move between pages in the menu viewer using the Show Next Page/Show Previous Page buttons. See screen shot added below.

Third, the Encore preview does not extend beyond page 0. Pretty worthless.

So finally, burn a rewritable disk to test, or build to a BD folder or image and playback with a high quality software player. I like PowerDVD since Total Media Theater is no longer available.

Edit: added this image to go with edit in paragraph 2.

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