Understanding DVD Menu

DVD menu is the first exposure of your presentations. A professional looking DVD menu can easily catch your audience's attention. Wondershare PPT2DVD provides you an innovative DVD menu editor, which can help you create eye-catching DVD menus with ease.

 

 

In the third step DVD menu, it clearly states the menu structure which may include Root Menu, title menu and Play option. You can choose to disable all the DVD menus if you want the output DVD to be played automatically when it is mounted into the DVD player or DVD drive. You may also choose to design and preview the menu here.

 

Disable DVD menu: Tick to disable DVD menu in the output. Your presentations will be played automatically in this way. If you apply manual play mode to your presentations, the Root menu will be kept, even if you choose to disable DVD menu.

 

Design: Click to choose a template or customize the DVD menus. For more detailed information about using Menu Design, please refer to corresponding section.

 

Preview: Click to launch the DVD menu simulator, which simulates the behavior of DVD menu when you play the final DVD on TV. You can use mouse or the DVD menu simulator to perform operations on the simulation area, it will behave exactly the same as the final result does.

Note: This is a simulator for DVD menu only, preview of presentations is not available here.

DVD remote control simulator: This is a soft-remote-control integrated in menu simulator. You can find those buttons on normal DVD remote controls. The simulator includes four cross direction selection buttons, which allow you to select items on the menu, and the center one is the confirm button. The Menu and Title button are for switching to different menus when playing presentation.

 

 

DVD Menu structure

• Root Menu is the first page when you put the output DVD to your DVD machine. It would be enabled by default if you enable both auto-play mode and manual-play mode, on Importing screen. You can select how your presentations will be played on Root Menu. Click on a play mode to go to the title menu of corresponding mode. Following illustration is a sample of Root Menu:
  
  
  
  
• Title Menu shows the presentations contained on this DVD. Each presentation is shown as a thumbnail on this page. Title menu only shows the presentations with corresponding play mode enabled. For example, you have eight presentations in a project, and only six are set to be played automatically on Import screen, you should see the four presentations on the title menu of automatic mode. Following is a sample of title menu:
  
  
  
  Click on a thumbnail to play the corresponding presentations during REAL playback. Since the simulation area only simulates the DVD menu behaviors, presentation preview will not be available in menu preview.
  
  Loop all presentations, click to play all presentations under the automatic mode one by one, and the play will be looped.
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  Note: Title menu of manual mode does not have this Loop option.
  Click to go back to the Root Menu. If there are five or more presentations in auto-play mode or manual-play mode, this couple of button will be shown in title menu and you can click it to go to the previous page or next page.
  
  
  
• Play Options will be shown at the end of each presentation, or when you click Menu button on remote control during playback. You can choose to take an action from this page. Following is a sample of play options page:
  
  

You may see different options on your own menus provided you import one or more presentations and enable different play mode or both. Here is only a sample.


Next presentation: Click to start the next presentation.


Replay: Click to play current presentation again.


Change to slide sorter view: Click to switch to slide sorter view for current presentation. All slides contained in this presentation will be shown as thumbnails on the screen in this view.


Back to the last slide: Click to go back to the last slide of the presentation.


Resume: Click to go to the previous slide played just now. If you press the menu button on remote control during playback accidentally, this function is practical.


Click to back to the title menu. Click to back to the Root Menu.

 

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