Can I Create a Custom Menu In Premiere Elements 12?

Question

It's great that Elements 12 has a way to automate menus for a DVD, but so far I can't find one I like.  Specifically I want a picture background to fill up the whole screen, just like I can do with a title.  Maybe my question should be can I turn a title into a menu by adding markers? 
And a related question is do I have to have a main menu and a separate scene selection menu?  I am used to creating menus (with Pinnacle) that allow just one menu screen and buttons that can be added (and the "button" can be text or a picture). 
Now I'm getting ahead of myself but if I have a scene menu and someone selects a scene, at the end of the scene will it just continue playing or return to the scene menu?  It's an option in Pinnacle.  I'm hopping it is in Premiere as well because once the scene is done I would rather have it continue to play on like commercial DVDs would if you jumped to a scene in the middle of the movie to continue watching.
Thanks for any comments.
Rick

Answer 1

Rick
The disc menus come as a set of main menu page and scene page.
The main menu page has buttons for Play All and Scenes Selection (to get to the scene menu page if the viewer does not want Play All.
The scene menu page has buttons for the Scenes for the viewer to select what to view first. But, remember that after the viewer watches the selected scene, the viewer in not going to be taken back to the main menu unless he/she selected the last scene to watch.
The number and sequence of the scenes in the scene menu page will be directed by where you place the
menu markers on the Timeline content. The main action for disc menu set up is going to be in Tools Menu/Movie Menu/Movie Maker Customization.
The main menu page comes with a designed in number of buttons. So does the scene menu page.
a. main menu markers on the Timeline to place main menu buttons
b. scene menu markers on the Timeline to place scene menu buttons.
Now here is the consideration. If the number of scene markers on the Timeline exceeds the number of designed in button for the scene menu, then the excess spills over to additional pages. Same situation for the main menu and main menu markers.
Example...if you have 6 scene markers placed on the Timeline and you use a menu with a scene menu with only 4 spots for buttons, then you are going to end up with 2 scene menus, the first with 4 buttons/page and the second with 2 on the page. In the end
a. 1 main menu...Play All Button and Scene Selection Button
b. 2 scene menus....lst with 4 buttons
Let us try this. Go back to my blog posts and see if the introduction in any of them describes what you want to do.
If one looks promising, then we can go step by step through the how to provide for smoother sailing through the details. The details may look better on the second read.
Based on all that I will see if I can customize something beyond which I have already written about.
Right now for practice look at 8 Timeline scene markers for the Memories/Memory Box theme which should give you
1 main menu page with a spot to insert a picture
2 scene menus page (each with 4 buttons per page)
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Note: If all your scene markers appear to have similar scenes, make sure you have put a few frames distance between menu makers.
Also, in the Marker's dialog, use the Offset to move the view a little. This will not affect the position of the marker on the Timeline, just the
view of what you are seeing in the scene thumbnail.
We can get rid of thumbnails but it will take us into the theme's psd editing in Photoshop CS or higher or depending on the circumstances
Photoshop Elements.