User Guide

Chapter DVD Authoring
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Creating and Designing DVD menus
w The Circle and Rectangle generate round and rectangular objects. You can edit surfaces,
edges and shadows as though they were characters (see
“Character and Object Looks”
on page 14-57). Note the layers - objects can overlap each other either partially or com-
pletely. You can control the layer Sequence by selecting menu bar > Titles> Layers.
w The Crosshairs represent scaling and moving mode and are automatically activated when
an object is selected.
w Kerning and Leading control the “a-b” tool but only in the case of text objects. Select a text
object and use the mouse pointer to drag the text frame to the left or right and change let-
ter spacing (= kerning).
For multi-line text objects, you can change line spacing by dragging the mouse pointer
vertically (= leading).
Drag one of the corner handles to distort the object.
w The Chain and Broken Chain are tools for grouping and ungrouping objects.
Use
CTRL + click to select the objects you want to group together. Then click the chain
button. You can ungroup objects by clicking one of the group elements and then clicking
the broken chain button.
w To align objects, click the button with the two horizontal arrows. Select the relevant
objects (CTRL + click) and select the desired option from the menu (click the buttons!).
w To position objects, click this button to open a small menu. After you select an option, a
selected object is positioned at a defined location on the desktop, such as in the upper
right-hand corner.
The scale is the “safe range” indicated by the red dashed line.
These are the standard copy, cut and paste buttons, plus the trash button for deleting objects.