User Guide

Chapter DVD Authoring

14 - 3

Step by Step DVD Authoring

This section describes how to create a DVD (also known as DVD authoring) by taking you

through a step-by-step example. You can use it either to get a preliminary look at the functions or

to start your first DVD project using your own material. However, only the most important func-

tions will be described.

1 Build a Sequence or retrieve a finished Sequence from the Timeline.

2 Take a moment to consider the individual segments (chapters) of the Sequence: What do

you want to offer in the first menu? Then create a few seconds of space for the menu

before the first clip in the Sequence.

3 If necessary, render the effects.

4 Open the Project Browser (for single-monitor systems); in the Library, go to the DVD

Menus Rack.

5 Select a DVD menu, drag it to a Tra c k and drop it ahead of the first clip in the Sequence.

As soon as you drop it, the menu jumps to a new DVD Track added at the top. The menu

clip is three seconds long.

6 Open the DVD Editor (double-click the DVD menu or click the DVD Editor button in the

Timeline toolbar).

7 Now start assigning the chapters. This is easily done by Linking each menu button (also

called Link) to a segment of the Sequence by means of drag and drop: