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Adjusting the Menu Settings
At the bottom of the menu window, you’ll find several options that will
affect how your menu looks The Menu Title appears at the top of the menu
in a large font.

Remember that the Menu Title is for the final product as a whole, it’s not
just the title of an individual show. Be sure to choose something that will
work for all the shows you include, assuming you have more than one.

Another important option is the Thumbnails checkbox. This enables the
use of video thumbnails, which are animated thumbnails of your show. This
is just like the animated previews that often play when you’re using the
chapter selection tool on a film DVD.

If you enable the option to use video thumbnails, you can also choose how
long you want the thumbnails to be. By default, they’re 5 seconds long.
This causes the thumbnail to display the first 5 seconds of each show that
you have as a thumbnail on the menu.

Remember that the time starts from the beginning of the show. If the first
part of your show doesn’t have anything that really stands out, you might
just want to pass on using video thumbnails.

Also in the Menu Settings area you'll find the options to open, save or
download additional Menu Templates. You'll use these options to manage
the custom menus you create. We'll cover this in more detail a little later in
the chapter.