Thanks Steve,
I just downloaded the free sports and text menus from Movipix and peeked at them in Photoshop Elements. I'm not sure what to do with them but assume I should place them in some Adobe PRE 11 folder to make them accessible to PRE 11. Will read up on it in your book tonight.
Regarding what types of HD templates I need for current projects
1. Halloween
2. Travel
3. Family (trying to do family "yearbook", with lots of chapters)
4. Wedding
4. General (I like your simple text menu, and especially that scenes included on main menu)
Regarding chapters or scenes, it seems to me that HD templates can support many more chapters than SD (i.e., more than 3-6) on a scene menu. but Adobe doesn't seem to get it.
The existing menu collection in PRE 11 has nice variety, but I just wish they were all offered in HD. Thanks for the notes on the PRE 11 "Pan and Zoom" template. I just played with it and agree its very nice and general and easy to customize. It may have a small bug, however. i just used it with a project having 7 scene markers. While the preview screen shows a scene menu with 6 scenes, followed by a "overflow" scene menu with 1, there isn't a navigation button on the scene menus to navigate between them. Thus the "overflow" scene menu is dead and can't be used.
Also, as a final note, I've used SD menus with HD video on Blu-ray discs with limited success. While the SD menus look crude and fuzzy, some Blu-ray players have trouble with them. E.g., older Panasonic will display menus ok, but then mask lower 50% of screen when movie is played. Newer players (Samsung & Sony) seem ok
