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After selecting a theme and adding movies

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and slideshows to your main menu

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[Adding and Customizing Menus]
you can expand your project by adding

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additional menus and other features.

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Adding extra menus is easy

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just make sure your main project
menu is open in the viewer

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and choose "Add Submenu"
from the add (+) pop-up menu.

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A new button is created with the default name

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"My Submenu".

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Click the button to rename it

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and adjust the text formatting as desired.

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Double-click the button and a new
menu is opened in the viewer.

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From the themes pane

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choose the menu that best
matches your purpose.

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You can then add movies
and slideshows to your menu

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just as you would to the main menu.

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When you're done return to the main menu

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by clicking the return button.

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In iDVD you can replace the basic text buttons

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with images and animation.

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Select the button that's a link
to a movie or slideshow

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then open the "Buttons" pane,

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from the pop-up menu at the top

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choose from "Frames", "Artistic"
"Rectangle" or "Rounded"

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than make a selection in the pain below.

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Click the start/stop motion button

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and the video or slideshows
that the button is linked to

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will now play inside the button frame.

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For slideshows, click on the
selected button to edit it.

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Then drag the thumbnail slider to choose

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the specific photo from a slideshow

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that you want to appear on the button.

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For movies you can drag the movie slider

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to choose where you want the button's
movie to begin playing.

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To freeze that frame, select "Still Image".

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Now when you start the motion preview

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you'll see a single image representing

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the movie linked from that button.
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