User Guide

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What’s New in DVDit! 2.0?

DVDit! 2.0 offers a wide array of new and enhanced features, including:

General

• Windows 2000 support.

• Keyboard shortcuts for many actions (see “DVDit!’s Keyboard Shortcuts” on

page 16 for a full list).

• Cut, copy, and paste of menus, movies, buttons and text.

• Multiple levels of undo and redo.

• Greatly enhanced navigation control for menus and movies, including looping

of video segments.

• DVD-ROM support. Now you can add a DVD-ROM section to a disc.

• Disc naming. The Project Settings dialog lets you name the disc and specify the

disc size before you create the output.

• New encoder for non-MPEG ﬁles. DVDit! now selects the best video bit-rate,

based on the project size and speciﬁed disc size. (You can still choose the bit-

rate manually.)

• cDVD

™

. This is a special software DVD player that you can include when you

write a project to CD-R. It lets people play your presentation on most CD-

ROM-equipped PCs.

• Write to DVD disc directly without creating a temporary DVD volume.

PE version only:

• Widescreen (16:9) video support. Create DVDs using anamorphic 16:9 video.

• Choice of Dolby Digital or PCM audio encoding. You also set the audio bit-

rate independently from the video bit-rate.