DVD Authoring: How to Make a Menu/Home/Splash Screen

I searched for "DVD menu" and "DVD authoring" but came up empty for what I am trying to do.
I am a newbie to InDesign (CS3), using mostly Premiere Pro. I am a teacher at a High School and for our 4th quarter project we are making a Senior year video. Anyway, one of the groups have the task of designing the cover art, liner notes, DV-disc cover, as well as the menu screens for the DVD itself.
I clearly see that InDesign has some nice templates for most of this stuff, but is this the proper software to be using to create a menu screen to load the chapters, view additional content and things of that sort?
Thanks for the guidance. I'm looking forward to this project but want to make sure I understand the general process first. I'm a quick learner but want to make sure I am studying the right software this weekend!

InDesign is excellent for the printed material, but almost wholly useless for DVD menus. At best, you could create some graphic backgrounds by exporting the layout to JPEG - and that might be an approach to make your printed materials and menus match - but it has no features for creating or editing the menus themselves.
What you want is a DVD authoring tool. There are quite a few around, most of which have flexible titling and menuing functions. Some very limited packages only work with a canned menu; others have some support for user-created menus and titles; others are full-function design and layout tools for those purposes.
I find that Adobe Encore handles most of my needs, but you may be looking for a less expensive alternative. (Encore is about $200 with an academic license, if I remember rightly.)
A general web search for "DVD Authoring" should turn up a selection of tools in all price ranges and with a spectrum of capabilities.

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