First Play to Menu

I have i have an easy problem to fix... I inserted an asset to First Play when the dvd is put in, but after it plays it doesn't automatically go to the menu. Is there a way to make this happen?
Thanks!

Nope. I tried that, even tried putting a chapter marker in the middle of the intro movie and sending it to another track, not a menu. It still just played the whole intro movie and then went to black. In the end, I went back to my master project (I was building a few different versions of a movie, one with an index menu and a choice to view next or return to main after each chapter, one that just plays straight through), did a save-as, and just redid the indexed project version exactly the same as I had already done.
For reasons I can't fathom, when I did the +exact same thing+ with this new version, it worked just fine...go figure. I had burned a test copy with the intro movie in a menu, not just a track, with some extra buttons and decided I didn't like it, so made modifications. I wonder if having the build folder already set up somehow interfered with having the new version of the first copy play properly after I had deleted the original first play and main menu and replaced it with a new first play and different menu that it would return to between chapters...

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sdhnfocus wrote:
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