Video intro before menu

Does anybody know how I can create a video intro that plays first thing when a DVD is inserted into the player and then leads to the first menu on the disc?
In other words, this video would come on as soon as the DVD starts playing, then possibly pause on its last frame, and that frame would become the background of the first menu. Then the buttons and links would appear when the video ends and the menu begins.
Any idea how I can create this? And possibly make the music be continuous between the video and the menu?
Thanks,
Fernanda.

Few approaches
1.) First set first play for the disc to either the track you want or the menu
2.) If a track is first play (better form) then have the last frame be the background of the menu you are going to and set the jump from the track to the menu
or
3.) http://dvdstepbystep.com/motion.php and http://dvdstepbystep.com/useelements.php (still a good idea to have the first play be a short track even of a couple of seconds of black then set end jump to the menu)

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There is quite possibly a very obvious answer to this but a quick search here didnt reveal anything. My last DVD i made with a video intro (track) leading to a separate menu which graphically was like the last frame from the movie intro or opening track. It didnt flow smoothly as smoothly as i would like as there was a little flicker in the movement from the opening track to the main menu so this time i would like if possible to have the buttons appear at the end of the video intro where i have a background already prepared for the text. The video mv2 i have placed in the Menu to paly once. I understand how to make the overlay menu but i want it to come in at the end of the video clip. Is this possible?
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