Return to previous menu before finsihing a scene?

I have set up menu 1 which gives a choice of viewing the entire progran (story 1) or go to menu2 with buttons for individual scene choices/chapters.
Each chapter marker will return to it's start button on menu 2 if played to the end. (end jump set to appropriate button)
How can I set the same action for a situation where the viewer doesn't watch the scene through to it's conclusion?

You mean if the user is in a story for a single scene, and they press the menu button on the remote? You can set the menu call for each story to go to a specific button from within the property inspector. This should easily achieve what you want to do, if I have understood you correctly.
You could also script this if you were not in a story, or had this set up in some other way. You would set the menu button and end jump to point to a script like this:
mov GPRM0, SPRM8
div GPRM0, 1024
Jump Menuname [GPRM0]
This is a GPRM based button jump, and the GPRM has been set up to hold the value of the last button selected on the menu (which is what SPRM8 does). The div function ensures that the button number (which is in multiples of 1024) is converted to a simple sequential number. You only need to make sure that the menu name is correctly entered in the script.

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Steve - Drew has already got this covered, I'm sure... the answer is to use a simple set of scripts. The problem facing any author using multiple menus to access the same basic track asset is how to know which menu to go back to.
On some players, using the menu key will go to the last viewed menu, but not all will work this way - some manufacturers seem to invoke their own practices rather than the spec. guides.
What you do is really quite easy... every time that you send the viewer to a menu (be it the start up menu or whatever) you first of all send them to a script. In the script you set a value into a GPRM and that way you can keep track of where the user came from.
For example, your disc starts with a menu... but you set the first play to go to the following script:
mov GPRM0, 1
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From the main menu you want to go to a features menu - set the button on menu1 to go to the following script:
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As you can see, GPRM0 (the memory space) has a new value in it. If you want to go back to the main menu from the features menu then set the button on menu2 to go to the first script. This will reset the GPRM value back to '1'.
Now, all you need to do is create a final script which you set to be the menu call and end jump for your track. You do this from the property inspector for the track - use the drop downs for 'Menu' to navigate to your scripts and choose the following script:
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Jump Menu2 If (GPRM0 = 2)
Now you have a system in place which will take the user to whatever menu they were last on regardless of anything else. You can expand this system indefinitely to accommodate many more menus, and also build it to send you back to the exact button you were last on as well. It's a flexible system!
Keep in mind that the menu button on your handset is intended to act as a resume function as well - don't fall into the trap of believing you can move from menu to menu by pressing using that handset button more than once - a second press will take you right back to the track you were last watching.

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You can split a moive and import only what you want by exporting it to Quicktime alone.
But if something is a part of your main video project, it will play along with the other parts.
You can delete its chapter selection from your menu, but the video will still play in order in the project.
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I have found close answers to this, but not spot on....
(1) MAIN menu button "PLAY ALL" plays track. If MENU is pressed in the middle of play, it returns to MAIN menu. Good.
(2) From the CHAPTERS menu, if I press a selection, it goes to that chapter & plays. Good also. If I hit MENU while playing that chapter, however, it goes back to MAIN menu. Not good. I want it to go back to the CHAPTERS menu & to the button that I first pressed. But, I want to keep the (1) menu connection, also.
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