Motion Menus: Placeholder and button chaos

I am working on a menu for my DVD which includes a video background with the buttons included in it. Basically a car drives off the screen and I masked the video so when the car drives off screen the play and scenes text shows up in the street. I want the placeholder to be the last frame of the video and from what I can tell, Encore will set it to that point through the loop point. My problem is setting the two words up as buttons on that frame. I tried to edit at that point in Photoshop, but then when I preview it, only the last frame shows up and the video is no longer running. I'm not sure how far off I am here, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Rob

I have rendered the motion menu, but my issue is in making the text from the original bg video my buttons. They don't appear until 22 seconds into the video. From what I read in the help, it says that you have to make those frames your place holder and to do that you have to set the loop point as such. I did that and then tried to do a subpicture in photoshop, but when I come back into Encore and preview, it only shows me the placeholder frame and the BG video doesn't run.

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