User Guide

32 Creating a Project
What is a Project?
DVD Video and DVD-ROM
A DVDit! project contains the video, audio, and navigation instructions that make
up a DVD Video presentation. A project can also include DVD-ROM data files for
use on a computer. (You add the DVD-ROM files by selecting them in the Project
Settings dialog — see “Finishing the Project” on page 87 for details.)
A single project fits on one side of a DVD disc, so if you want the DVD to be
replicated on a double-sided disc, you must create a separate project for each side.
Basic Steps
The following steps show how to build or author a DVD Video project. You don’t
have to follow these steps exactly; this is just a guideline.
1 Create the First Play:
The First Play tells the DVD player to start playing a particular movie or menu
when the disc is inserted in the player. For example, in many Hollywood movie
DVDs you see an FBI warning when you insert the disc, followed by the movie’s
main menu. In DVDit!, you could do this by placing the FBI warning video or still
in the First Play placeholder.
2 Create movies:
A movie contains a video clip or still image, and an optional audio clip. If the
movie contains a video clip, you can add chapter points; these let the viewer jump
to specific locations in the video.