Saving a custom menu in Encore library

I've been watching a training video for Encore and several days ago I recall the trainer stated that a custom menu can be saved to appear in the menu library along with all the standard menus that come with Encore.
After creating a menu in Photoshop and importing it to Encore I have it working the way I want.  I would like to save this in the menu library to use with other projects, but now I can't find the section of the training video that described how to do that.
Is it as simple as saving the PSD in the library folders on my hard drive where all the standard menu files are saved?  I don't want to corrupt the data base by doing somehting dumb so some advice here would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Jim

It is the wrong forum, but what you want to do is simple.  Import it as a menu into the project.  Drag it from the project into the library>General window.  You will then be asked whether you want to save it as a standard menu or a template.  If you want it to be portable to other computers, also check self contained under template.  That simple.

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