Video menus using DVD Studio Pro

Question

I want to use a video I created in Motion as my menu for my DVD.  The video begins with animation then the play and chapters, etc labels fade in.  And, when one of those labels are click on, the animation will continue to the next place in the video.
For example, video begins with animation then labels fade in (play, chapters, extras), then user clicks on 'chapters' and video transitions to new chapters menu. 
I would also like one track to play continously throughout.
Any help?
Thank You

Answer 1

You can't get the audio to be continuous throughout the menu and the transitions because you will be moving to a different physical location on the disc, and there is no memory cache on a DVD that'll keep the audio playing as you do the move.
Tupically, you do the starting animation and button fades using a single piece of audio, and the exit transition is at the start of the track that the menu button takes you to. A short piece of footage that uses a still of the menu, and then fades into whatever the transition is, and then on to the first frame of the track (or to a black screen) is normal, however different people do this sort of thing in different ways.
There was a time when to achieve this you had to use a track as your menu, and add buttons over video. You could still do it this way, but DVDSP is now more sophisticated and you can achieve a lot more using the standard tools built in.