Selecting What Portion of a Clip Plays in Menu

Question

Old iDVD had this feature - I can't find it in '08 - I drop a clip into the background and it shows the very beginning - how can I assign it to play a more relevant portion of the clip?

Answer 1

This is from iDVD Help:
_Setting where a background movie begins and ends_
When you use your own video as a menu’s background, you can use the entire video (up to 15 minutes), or part of it. To use part of it, you specify where you want it to begin and end in the Menu Info window.
To specify the portion of video you want to show:
Make sure the menu that uses the background video you want to adjust is showing in the iDVD window.
With your pointer over the menu (and with no buttons or text objects selected), press Command-I to open the Menu Info window.
Click the small triangle above the Loop Duration slider. (You see the triangle only when custom video is in the background well.)
The slider control becomes the Background Movie Start/End control, and the slider is split in half.
Move the left half of the slider, which plays the movie in the iDVD window, until you see the frame where you want the background video to start.
Move the right half of the slider until you see the frame where you want the background video to end.
Click the triangle again to return to the Loop Duration slider.
I hope this helps.