Encore Cs4 creating chapters

Gentlemen !
Windows Ultimate
CS4 Encore
I have a 3 hours and 25mins video (NTSC AVI)
Basically its a family video, which includes an Intro, dancing part, dinner and ending
I wanted to make a DVD disk
So I imported my video as an asset and created a timeline for it
Now how can I divide the my into at least 4 parts
Basically I want to have 4 chapters on the main menu , like the first chapter would be the intro, the second chapter would be the dancing part and so on...
But I must have at least 4 buttons on the main menu and each button represents a scene
Thank You !

The best option for such a long video is to create it as 4 videos, divided as the 4 sections you want.  Then you link a button to each of the videos for the individual sections, and you create a playlist to "play all."  (You add one more button for the play all.
With the one timeline you will have, you set a chapter marker at the beginning of each of the sections (chapter 1 is set by default in Encore).  Be sure you set the chapter markers before you transcode.  (Chapter markers have to be at a gop boundary.  Encore will take care of that as long as you set the chapter marker before transcoding.)
Your "play all" button will link to that timeline.  You will create 4 chapter playlists (CHAPTER playlists, not a "playlist") with one (only) of the 4 chapters in a chapter playlist.  Your section buttons will link to those chapter playlists.
Are you planning a dual layer disk?  That's a lot of video for a single layer.  Layer breaks sometimes create issues with long timelines.

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