Ready to give up.

[Chocol8y]

Please repost in proper place if I have done so here erroneously.

K this is VERY hard to believe that I have such a simple question & have no resolution although some did really try to help & thanks to them So c'mon folks SOMEONE out there MUST know how to do what I wanna do.
PLEASE if someone knows how to make a simple 2 pg menu I would be forever thankful. 1st page would have a motion background menu perhaps a looped 120 sec Vid with Audio & a "Play All" button & a "Select Clip" button..."Select Clip" would take me to the 2nd page where there would be 4 Clips/Vids/Recordings or whatever u wanna call em in 4 lil motion windows that appear 30 - 60 seconds on one big Motion background with vid & Audio. I should be able to select any clip & at the end of that particular Clip/Vid/Recording the DVD would return to this 2nd page. 2nd page would also have a "Main Menu" button to take me to the 1st page.
Now I have been successful with TMPGEnc BUT the "ONLY" issue is the DVD does not return to the 2nd page when a Vid is selected from the 2nd page - instead it returns to the 1st page.
I have begged/borrowed etc. all the progs below BUT I really don't want to spend a whole year tryin to learn all these to make a (simple) yet evidently unbelieavably hard, 2 pg menu to find out it can't be done !. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if ANYONE can gimme a step by step guide to do what I wanna with any of the progs stated under it would be AWESOME.
1. TMPGEnc DVD Author 3
2. Sonic Scenarist Standard Content Authoring V4.12
3. Roxio DVDIt Pro
4. Titlewriter
5. Spruce DVD Maestro
6. SonyVegasMovieStudioPlat 8 & SonyVegas Pro 8+ DVDArchitect 4.5
7. PGC Edit
8. Nero 8
9. DVDStyler v1.5.1
10. DVDLab Pro v2.3
11. Ulead DVD Workshop 2
So Far TMPGEnc seems to be the easiest to use & has most options for transitions, fine adjustments etc. but I am sooo close yet sooo far. I really did join this forum on Nov 19th 2007 & had already spent a whole week trying to resolve this 2 pg menu issue BEFORE I joined. Finding it really hard to believe that there isnt't anyone out there that can help...I know there are a LOT of Experts on here & the forum is good I REALLY REALLY would appreciate step by step directions on this.
Thanks in Advance

[blutach]

It seems you can't get your structure correct.

Maybe you should find a DVD that you have that has this structure (I know many commercial DVDs like this) and substitute the video.

Goonix's guide is a good one to follow. And there's even an animated guide - see here (note you don't have to replace with a still; you can replace with a motion file).

Please also see this sticky - http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=69001

Regards

[beachbumm33]

I did something very similar to this last year with my daughters cheer competitions, had 9 different clips, 2 picture slide shows....I did it with Sonic My Dvd

The first page had a master play all button with internal motion background, the second and third pages had buttons for each individual competition, with internal motion background, and the forth page had 2 picture slide show buttonsOn the first page, to go along with the play all button a music loop of their competition music played

[Chocol8y]

What I am trying to do is : I have a bunch of my performances 50 mins each with 10 mins breaks (VHS PAL) all converted & sitting on my puter etc etc ... & as I mentioned able to make a DVD with all I want EXCEPT that when I select an episode if u will from the 2nd page it goes to 1st page after end of playback (BUT I want it to stay on the 2nd page & If I want to go to the 1st page I could do so with the "Main Menu" button...) basically 25 avi files of which I wanna put 4 on each dvd till all are done. So a step by step guide of acheiving a 2 pg menu mentioned in post #1 would be awesome. Not that I am lazy & not wanting to learn this prog u mentioned BUT that there are 17 odd gigs of files on my puter that I wanna clear up AND I have already spent waaaay too much time learning all these other progs only to find I couldn't make a 2 pg menu like I wanted ... very close to a divorce.

Thanks for your help.

[Chocol8y]

K beachbumm33 - getting close to it (with Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 MyDVD) can't figure out why the motion menu on 1st page does not allow for any longer than 20 secs...is there a way to make motion menus for longer ... maybe 120 - 150 secs ? & is it poss to make all motion menus such lengths ?

Thanks again