Creating your own animated scene selection:
start DVD LAB PRO --> start creating your DVD as usual by importing video and audio files and setting them up as movie and create your chapters by either setting automated chapters (faster) or setting them manually (always better).
create scene selection menus for your movie using the automated feature:
menu --> scene selection menu --> thumbnail scene selection
I usually use this one, because it produces only a few menus:
Your regular and ugly scene selection menu will be created.
Now create a new menu by right clicking on the main menu in the upper left bar:
this will be the first menu for your customized scene selection. You may name it chapters 1 for better order.
switch to this menu.
now paste a nice background image there. You can copy any image and paste it or you can create your background image and import it as image and drag it to the screen.
In this case I have left a blank space at the bottom, where I later on want to have some buttons for navigation.
now it gets interesting:
switch to the one of the automated scene selection menus.
delete the frame around the chapter box --> click on the chapter box --> right click --> copy
switch to your new chapters menu and right click --> paste
voila. there is your chapter box.
(it does not work any other way for me to have a working chapter box in one of my self created menus)
now copy/paste the chapter box as many times as you want it on your first chapters menu. You can also change the size of the box to your likings.
now you can add text and buttons and set the links for the boxes for each chapter.
nice so far.
Now we need this for the other chapter menus too.
The fastest and best way to do this is this:
Menu --> export menu --> as menu
now let's animate the first chapters menu:
Menu --> render motion
set the time for your scene selection menu --> render
voila. here is your personal animated scene selection menu.
It is essential you check the links and the connections, because DVD LAB PRO tends to produce wrong or unwanted connections and directions.
Click "Show Navigation links" --> show all
if anything is not to your likings, disable auto route and set the directions yourself by clicking on the arrows and dragging them from one link to the next.
Now that all is correct, add a new menu as described above.
Switch to this new menu (name it chapters 2) --> menu --> load
load your previously saved menu.
correct all links and entries to the second chapters menu and render motion again.
Do this with all following chapter menus until all chapter menus are finished.
Delete the automated scene selection menus.
Link form the main menu to your chapters 1 menu.
done.