Motion Menus: Placeholder and button chaos

I am working on a menu for my DVD which includes a video background with the
buttons included in it. Basically a car drives off the screen and I masked the
video so when the car drives off screen the play and scenes text shows up in the
street. I want the placeholder to be the last frame of the video and from what I
can tell, Encore will set it to that point through the loop point. My problem is
setting the two words up as buttons on that frame. I tried to edit at that point
in Photoshop, but then when I preview it, only the last frame shows up and the
video is no longer running. I'm not sure how far off I am here, but any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

When you add anything to the menu, you have to render it in Encore.

This will be difficult to troubleshoot without seeing your file.

If you created your subpicture layers correctly in Photoshop and that was all
you added, there should be no need to render the motion menu again.