DVDit Pro > Using individual elements to create menus

• Getting started
  • DVD authoring workflow
  • Examples of DVD projects
    • Single movie title (with chapter points)
    • Multiple titles
    • Single menu and multiple titles
    • Multiple menus and titles
    • "Play all" menu button
    • "Easter eggs"
  • DVDit Pro windows
    • Using window layouts
    • Toolbar
    • Palette window
    • Project window
    • Timeline window
    • Preview window
    • Attributes window
  • System requirements
• Creating projects
  • Starting a new project
    • Preventing the sample files from loading
  • Setting the disc type and project size
  • The OpenDVD setting
  • Changing the project settings
    • Changing the transcoder settings
    • Adding ROM content to the DVD
    • Adding mastering information
    • Setting DVD region codes
    • Adding copy protection
  • Setting the DVD jacket picture
  • Editing MyDVD projects in DVDit Pro
• Importing assets
  • Importing files into DVDit Pro
    • Notes on importing files
  • Importing DVD+VR content
  • Removing assets
  • Changing a video asset's field dominance
  • Supported video files
  • Supported audio files
  • Supported image files
    • Recommended image sizes
    • Image colors in NTSC projects
  • Creating buttons and menus in Adobe Photoshop
    • Creating buttons
    • Creating menus
  • DVD-compliant file requirements
    • MPEG-2 video
    • MPEG-1 video
    • PCM (uncompressed AIFF/WAVE) audio
    • Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio
  • Choosing bit-rates for video and audio
    • CBR or VBR?
    • Bit-rate calculation
• Creating and editing movie titles
  • Creating movies
    • Using SAP audio in movies
    • Changing the video aspect ratio
    • Changing the timecode format
    • Adjusting audio volume levels
  • Adding subtitle tracks to movies
    • Importing subtitle script files
    • Editing subtitle tracks
    • Editing subtitle color sets
    • Deleting subtitles
  • Setting audio and subtitle languages
    • Setting a track's purpose (language code extension)
  • Locking and unlocking tracks
  • Previewing movies
    • Previewing movies with multiple audio and subtitle tracks
    • Saving a video frame as an image file
  • Trimming movies
  • Offsetting audio and subtitle tracks
    • Offsets and trimming behavior
  • Creating and editing chapter points
    • Adding chapter points manually
    • Importing chapter point metadata from an Avid application
    • Moving chapter points
    • Naming chapter points
    • Deleting chapter points
    • Effect of trimming on chapter points
• Creating and editing slideshow titles
  • Creating slideshows
  • Removing slideshow images
  • Reordering slideshow images
  • Changing the slideshow duration
  • Rotating slideshow images
  • Changing the transitions between slides
  • Adding soundtracks to slideshows
  • Removing slideshow soundtracks
  • Changing the slideshow aspect ratio and background color
  • Archiving slideshow images on the DVD
• Creating and editing menus
  • Tools to help create menus
    • "Safe area" guides
    • Gridlines
    • Layer display controls
  • Using menu templates to create menus
  • Using individual elements to create menus
    • Choosing the menu background
    • Adding menu objects
    • Editing menu objects
    • Applying drop shadow and glow effects to menus
  • Using layered Photoshop files to create menus
    • Creating a layered menu
    • Adding the button highlight areas
    • Editing highlight areas
    • Replacing the menu background and subpicture layers
  • Using audio in menus
    • Adding audio to menus
    • Fading the audio
    • Removing menu audio
  • Setting menu durations
  • Editing menu subpictures
    • Choosing a menu's color set
    • Editing subpicture color sets
    • Setting the menu subpicture start point
  • Duplicating menus
• Creating and editing links
  • Creating and editing playlists
  • Naming titles, playlists, and menus
  • Setting the first play title, playlist, or menu
  • Linking content to menu buttons
    • Creating and replacing button links
    • Notes on button links
    • Choosing button subpictures
    • Deleting button links
  • Reassigning menu button numbers
    • Showing and hiding button numbers
  • Defining menu button routing
    • Manual button routing
    • Resetting the button routing
  • Setting menu button images
  • Animating button images
  • Making buttons auto-activate
  • Forcing selection of a menu button
  • Setting title, playlist, and menu end actions
    • Changing end actions
    • Overriding title end actions
  • Changing the remote control's Title and Menu button actions
• Testing playback
  • Simulating disc playback
    • Changing the Simulation preferences
  • Using the Simulation window controls
  • Rendering motion menus
• Finishing the project
  • Removing unwanted material from the project
  • Burning discs
  • Writing DVD volumes
  • Writing disc images
  • Editing an OpenDVD disc or DVD volume
  • Writing to DLT
    • Viewing the DDP report
• Changing DVDit Pro's preferences
  • General tab preferences
  • File Control tab preferences
  • Edit tab preferences
  • Author tab preferences
  • Simulation tab preferences
  • Quality tab preferences
• Disc specifications
  • Recordable discs
  • DVD-ROM discs
• TV standards and DVD regions
  • TV standards and DVD regions by country/territory
• Shortcuts
  • File menu shortcuts
  • Edit menu shortcuts
  • View menu shortcuts
  • Timeline menu shortcuts
  • DVD Menus menu shortcuts
  • Simulate menu shortcuts
  • Burn menu shortcuts
  • Window menu shortcuts
• Preparing sequences in an Avid editing application
  • Preparing a finished sequence
  • Encoding the Sequence with Sorenson Squeeze
• Subtitle script files
  • Supported file formats and text encoding
  • Subtitle script structure
    • Basic subtitle format
    • Font commands
    • Position commands
    • Display commands
• Legal information
• Glossary