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Menu Editor Pop-Up Menus
The top of the Menu Editor contains several pop-up menus.
• View: Choose the menu you want to open in the Menu Editor from this pop-up menu.
This is an alternative to selecting the menu in the Outline or Graphical tab.
• Language selection: Choose a language to configure for this menu from the pop-up
menu next to the View pop-up menu. See
for more
information.
• Settings: Contains a variety of settings that control what you see in the Menu Editor.
• Auto Assign Buttons Now and Auto Assign Buttons Continuously: You can choose to
have DVD Studio Pro automatically assign button navigation settings to the current
menu configuration or continuously. See
for more
information.
• Display Background, Display Overlay, and Display Composite: You can choose to show
the background or overlay by itself or as a composite image. You can also press Q
to step through these options.
• Title Safe Area and Action Safe Area: These settings turn on a shaded area around the
outside edge of the menu, indicating portions of the menu that may not be viewable
on most consumer monitors. Placing buttons or text in these shaded areas can be
risky and should be avoided. There are two safe areas: title and action. The title safe
area is more constricted, and should be the boundary for items that must be seen
by the viewer. All text and buttons should be within this area. The action safe area
is closer to the menu edges, and is considered a boundary for items that you would
like the viewer to see but are not required. You can also press Command-E to show
or hide the title safe area, and Command-Option-E to show or hide the action safe
area.
• Square Pixels and Rectangle Pixels: You can choose to switch between viewing the
menu images with square pixels or scaled to the video aspect ratio (either 4:3 or
16:9). See
Understanding Pixel Differences in Graphics and Video
for more information.
You can also press P to toggle the pixel display type.
• Show Single Field: Optimizes playback when using field-based video sources. This is
especially important with video that has fast motion, because it reduces the motion
artifacts. However, selecting Show Single Field with frame-based video sources results
in reduced resolution (edges may appear jagged).
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Chapter 12
Introduction to Creating Menus