User Guide

Working With Menus 51
Working With Menus
A menu is a screen with buttons that let the DVD viewer jump to the movies and
other menus on the DVD. A menu must contain a background image and at least
one button link to a movie or another menu. You can also add text to the menu to
label or explain the buttons.
To build a menu, you choose a background, add buttons and text, then link the
buttons to movies and other menus. Buttons can be a graphic object, a text object,
or even a movie/menu thumbnail.
When a project contains multiple menus, you should create button links between
menus so that the viewer can navigate to them. For example, if you have two
menus, you should create two links: one from the first menu to the second menu,
and another from the second menu back to the first.
After you’ve created all the movies and menus, you can change how the DVD
player plays individual movies and menus; see “Changing Movie and Menu
Properties” on page 77 for details.
Creating Menus
To create a new menu
1
Display the menu list (click the button at the bottom of the movie/menu list to
choose
Menus).