How to bring in Buttons half way through?

Guys, I've managed to get to grips with the basics of DVD Studio 4.
But now I'm trying do the following and am struggling - even after reading a couple of books and articles!
I have a Motion.mov file, which I am using as a Background.
The total time of the .mov file is 25 seconds.
12 seconds into this background I have the 3 movies to which I want to add buttons to - hence I want the first 12 seconds to show NO Buttons and then the buttons to appear when the pre-created text for the movies appears.
I have tried everything I can/know to make the Buttons appear with the 3 movie options after the 12 seconds of the .mov file, but everytime I Simulate the project the Buttons appear from the very beginning.
I've even set the loop to 12 seconds, which doesn't seem to work.
I hope my above request is clear as to what I want
Any help is much appreciated

Alps wrote:
Thanks for those Links Drew.
Welcome
a) Why you have to create Buttons in Motion rather than DSP. I would have though it would have been possible to do this in DSP as it is specific to DVD authoring. But then I may be just being a little too ignorant or overly eager
It seems to be the way DVD SP handles the way it make buttons or elements in motion menus. The elements that are added in DVD SP all become part of the menu and not subject to the loop point for some reason. The overlays are delayed until the loop point. I am not sure if anything has changed in the recent rounds of updates or version. I am trying to recall the last version I tested to see if I could get it going, but I think (99.9999%) nothing has changed and it seems to be what you are seeing.
b) Why you can't create Buttons in DSP and then just bring them in at a latter time. ie add a fade in option so the Buttons fade in after X amount of seconds!
Not sure why the feature is not there, but it would be cool DVD SP is more of an authoring application rather than a compositing or graphics tool. In fact when you get the hang of it you will eventually make everything outside of DVD SP and just use DVD SP to author (place tracks, set jumps etc.)
c) How you can amend a certain default DSP template (eg "Panes") in Motion so as to bring in Buttons after X amount of seconds.
If you take a look at the Final Cut example above it describes a process of getting to the elements of a template and you can use the elements in Motion or Final Cut to adjust them. Of course some of the things may not bee adjustable depending on how the elements are made, some may be movies with the text as part of the movie for instance.
I'm really new to this whole authoring and motion lark, so if I've been a little ignorant with my comments please forgive me
Nah, no worries....

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