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3.1 Creation: Edit Menu
(2)Click on the “Edit Menu” button and you will see the title“Casablanca DVD” in the background (or the title of the previously edited DVD) and the first image of each of the added film projects with the project name appearing below it. The foreground displays an operating panel containing various options for laying out the DVD menu.
At the upper edge of the panel you will see the selection button named“Menu” that lets you access the nine different settings that are described below.
The bottom portion of the operating panel displays the individual options of the current “Menu” setting.
•“Control”: Here you can make the settings that effect how the finished DVD is played when put into a DVD player.
DVD is inserted. After the first film ends, the menu appears, but you now do not see the first film listed in the DVD menu screen. It is now not possible to start the first film again from the menu.
“Trailer + Menu”
This setting plays the first film automatically, but also displays the film in the DVD menu, where can now be selected again.
•“Background”
This function is used to specify the background of the DVD menu.
“Type”
This button provides the choice of a “Color”, “Pattern” or “Scene” for your DVD menu background. After this is designated, you can use the “Select” control lying below to call up the color box, the image pool or a specific scene from any of your projects.
“1. Film”
This function gives you the chance to specify whether the first film projects is automatically played or simply listed in the menu.
“Menu”
With this option, the DVD menu appears when the DVD is inserted into the player, and the first film is not automatically played.
“Trailer only”
This plays the first film automatically when the
If you decide to use “Scene”, then you can select a project of your choice in the “Select project” window. The scene bin for the project appears when you click on “Ok”. Now you can select the scene in the same manner you would select a scen in the main Edit screen: either by clicking directly on it with the arrow, with the controls to the right and left that allow you to go directly to the beginning or the end of the scene bin.
The first image of the scene is used. If you want another frame in the scene other than the first