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718 23. Creating Show Menus

There’s one major difference to focus on when it comes to captions and
your menu -the Caption Interactivity.

The Action on Click that you can assign for your captions here is quite a bit
more restricted than what you’ll find when adding interactivity in a show.
After all, DVD players can’t typically run programs or open URLs.

Interactive Menus

You’ve read that you can make both layers and captions interactive on your
pages. That’s a critical part to making a multi-page menu. You’re going to
need to give your audience the ability to go back to the starting page or
navigate back to chapter select. Trapping your viewer on a page that
doesn’t provide a link to go back to the main page would be quite
frustrating.

Let’s look at each Action you can perform with either a caption or a layer,
and whether that Action requires a Destination:
• Jump to a Menu Page: lets your viewer click on the layer or
caption to go to a specific page in your menu. The pages are
numbered from top to bottom. The top most page in your Pages
List is Page 1, the next one down is Page 2, etc. You’ll need to
enter the Destination page number for this to work.
• Play a Show: causes the caption or layer to start playing a show.
You need to choose the show it will play in the Destination field.
Remember that you’re limited to choosing the shows you’ve
already added to the Shows list.
• Go to Previous/Next Page: these two options will go one page
back or forward in your menu.
• Loop All Shows: activating this option will start playing all of the
shows that are included from the start, and once they’re over, it’ll
start all over again. Doesn’t require a destination.