Easy Question about end jumps

Here is my menu lay out. Three buttons.
Play all (Want it to play enire movie)
Play part one ( Play up to track 6 and return to menu)
Play part two (Play from track 7 to end)
Can someone please tell me how to do this correctly? What am I doing Wrong

Hi Deon - it's hard to say what you are doing wrong if you don't tell us what you are doing!
What I would do to set this up is place all the footage into a single track, set markers between each section and use stories to define which chapters play when each button is pressed. Your 'play all' button would point to the track itself. Your 'Play part 1' button would point to a story container, inside which I would place chapters 1 to 6. Finally, the remaining chapters would be in a second story and this would be the button target for 'Play part 2'.
You do not need to have the assets in separate tracks at all - if you want to play a single clip it can be in a single story with just one chapter marker in - each story can have an end jump setting to return back to the menu...
Hopefully this will help get you on the way, but if not please give as much info about what you have already done so we can start to troubleshoot it with you.

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