Specifications

Creating Chapters Using Chapters Setup Wisard

When you create a DVD menu, it can be very useful to create chapters for your movie to be able to navigate through it

when watching - quickly find necessary interesting moments and skip some. The Chapters Setup Wisard helps you divide

your movie quickly and easily. Just click the Chpaters Setup Wisard button of the Timeline Toolbar or use the

appropriate option of the Timeline section of the Main Menu to open the Chapters Setup window:

Here you can choose one of the following options:

Create a new chapter every ... minutes - use this option to create a new chapter at the selected time interval measured

in minutes.

Spread out chapters evenly - use this option to specify the number of chapters you want to create. The loaded video will

be divided into equal parts.

Create a new chapter for each video file - use this option to create a new chapter at the beginning of each new video file

added to your DVD. In case only one file is loaded the only chapter will be created at its beginning.

If you want you can adjust the chapters position manually. Please read the Creating and Editing Chapters Using Timeline

section

to learn how to do it.

Creating and Editing Chapters Using Timeline

When you create a DVD menu, it can be very useful to create chapters for your movie to be able to navigate through it

when watching - quickly find necessary interesting moments and skip some. The Create Chapter button of the Timeline

Toolbar is used to create new chapters in your movie. Click your mouse to the Timeline Scale and after that the Create

Chapter button. A new chapter will be created on the Timeline:

The

rhombus shows the beginning of a chapter and the cursor shows the current position in the video. You can also use the

Timeline Zoom Bar to facilitate the navigation through your video on the Timeline.

To delete a chapter, select it with the mouse cursor or in the Chapters Page in the Editing Area and click the Remove

Chapter button of the Timeline Toolbar. The beginning of the chapter that will be removed will be shown with the red

rhombus - . Or click the Remove All Chapters button to delete all the chapters and clear the chapters list.

You can also change the chapter beginning time moving the chapter rhombus on the Timeline to the necessary new

position. The mouse cursor will change into a hand - .

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