Chapters in DVD studio pro

I used markers in DVD studio pro to create my chapters. My problem is that I only need the chapters for the second "Chapters" menu and need the video to play through on the main menu, but right now there is a slight pause between each chapter as they advance. I thought about duplicating my main video track and having one with chapters and one without, but then my dvd gets too full. What should I do?
I would appreciate any advice!
Thanks,
Kelly
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi:
I thought about duplicating my main video track and having one with chapters and one without
You can get the same feature creating a Story from the main Track. You select the track and click on Add Story button. Double click on the new Story and take from the Track Markers pane the cgapters you want your Story plays. You can create so many Stories from the track as play lists you need.
Visit this place and you'll find a tutorial for creating stories: www.dvdstepbystep.com
And you can read in the DVDSP manual about stories, you'll solve a lot of this kind of navigation issues this way.

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http://bbalser.com/tutorials_long/DVDSP/DVDSP_Full_Orig.mov.zip

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