Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 224)

About the Menu Editor
The Menu Editor is contained in the Menu tab. It displays the menu graphics in either a
4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio (depending on what is set in the Menu tab in the Menu Inspector).
There are also several buttons and pop-up menus that let you select what appears in the
editor and provide tools that help with the menu creation process.
Menu Editor tools
Drag the Menu Editor
rulers to create guides.
Click this to hide
and show the
Menu Editor tools.
Choose a menu
to configure.
Open this pop-up
menu to choose
a menu language.
Open to configure
additional Menu Editor
settings.
The Menu Editor scales the menu to fit within its quadrant. As you make the quadrant
larger, the menu also increases up to the point that it reaches full size, when it stops
growing and the extra area around it is filled with gray. When working with the larger
HD resolutions, however, you may find it difficult to increase the quadrant’s size enough
to show the menu at full size. One option is to tear off the Menu tab into its own window,
which you can then resize without affecting the rest of the DVD Studio Pro interface. See
Tearing Off a Tab into Its Own Window for more information.
Using the Menu Rulers
The left and top sides of the Menu Editor can display rulers. When you click within the
Menu Editor, marks on the ruler show the pointer’s position. The Alignment pane in
DVD Studio Pro Preferences contains configuration settings for the ruler. These settings
include whether the rulers are shown and the units they use (pixels, percentage, and so
on). See
Alignment Preferences for details on setting the ruler’s preferences.
To show or hide the menu rulers
Do one of the following:
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Select the relevant setting in the Alignment pane of DVD Studio Pro Preferences.
224 Chapter 12 Introduction to Creating Menus