Menus in MPEG4 files for ATV3

Is it still impossible to have DVD-like menus in MPEG4
Have done searches now and then but not find a great soloution.
I have FCP and the quality is nice when playing through ATV
But I sure miss the nice DVD-menus I used to create in DVD PRO
What could be the problem. The DVD reads a menufile as points to certain places on yhe disk file

Jane Garcia wrote:
I am pretty sure I have edited in Quicktime Pro without having bought that MPEG playback component. I shoot a lot of short videos of animals which I edit with Quicktime Pro just by moving the sliders to the in and out points.
I believe those videos, downloaded from my digital camera, are MPEGs.
If they are MPEG-1 (which is less and less likely) you couldn't edit them at all in QT Pro and if you exported them (to a QT format) you lost the audio. Now this may have changed in 7.6 allowing editing and maybe audio. MPEG-1 is such a poor quality low-res codec (320X240, < 1000 kb/sec) and it would surprise me if many digital camera makers still use it vs. something like MJPEG or anything less awful.
I cannot remember the last time I saw MPEG-1 - you still find it on VCD and you used to find it on Usenet video newsgroups.
For MPEG-2 you still cannot edit or export, maybe due to the typical sources unlike yours, are protected (or were) , who knows?
Use (free) MPEG Streamclip as advised. It is also far more intuitive, supports batch files and you may find is a lot faster, too. You need the component either way to decode the MPEG-2. Handbrake might work , for free.

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