menu problem

[johndh]

I dropped a picture inside the "stage" menu. It shows up fine in menu preview and all the scene markers work fine.After burning and playing on my dvd player,still everything works fine but the picture is missing from the stage menu.I made sure the picture was inside the safe margins before burning.

[Paul LS]

Hi John, a warm welcome to Muvpix.

Do you mean you replaced the existing background with a photo or just added a photo on top of the existing menu? I dont believe you can do the latter, however I dont use the DVD menu creation within Premiere Elements very much.

Have you taken a look at the free "Steve's Tips" on creating DVD Menus in the Free Downloads section? It details how to change the background amongst other things. It may give you a clue to where you are going wrong.
The "Steve's Tips" is called Creating DVD Menus in Premiere Elements and can be found on this page:
http://muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=41

[johndh]

Thanks Paul,I tried opening Steve's tip "Creating DVD Menus in Premiere Elements" but after downloading it I tried to extract it and I get a message "your system does not meet the minimum requirements of 64 megs of ram"
Well I have 12 gigs so I know thats not the problem opening it.
I just tried dropping a picture on one of the pre made menus that causes the problem.

[RJ Johnston]

One solution to the keeping an image appearing in the menu is to create a video from the still image, about 5 seconds long should be enough, then use the video instead of the still image in the menu. That worked for someone else recently with a different menu.

[johndh]

Thanks RJ,I will try that.Is this an issue with PE9? or something I am doing wrong?

[Chuck Engels]

Hi John,
I think this is an issue with some menus in Premiere Elements 9, doubt you are doing anything wrong.