How do you do that, Creating a simple dvd – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual

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While investigating other DVDs, you may decide to include similar specialized features
in yours.

This chapter covers the following:

Creating a Simple DVD

(p. 45)

Creating a Play One or Play All Project

(p. 47)

Grabbing a Still Image from Your Movie

(p. 50)

Adding Easter Eggs to Your Menus

(p. 51)

Creating a Simple DVD

While DVD Studio Pro is capable of creating complex projects, you may find yourself
needing to create a very simple project that does nothing more than start playing when
you insert the DVD into a DVD player—with no menus and no viewer interaction at all.
This could be a disc that plays in a standalone kiosk or a DVD daily whose only purpose
is to distribute a video track for approval.

To create a simple DVD

1

Choose File > New (or press Command-N) to create a new project.

By default a new project contains Menu 1 and Track 1.

2

Select the Menu 1 tile in the Graphics tab and press Delete.

3

Control-click the Track 1 tile, then choose First Play from the shortcut menu.

This sets the project to automatically start playing this track once the DVD is inserted into
a DVD player. (By default, DVD Studio Pro sets Menu 1 as the First Play element.)

4

Drag the movie from the Library or a Finder window to the Track 1 tile in the Graphics
tab.

This not only imports the movie but assigns it to Track 1.

5

Select the Track 1 tile in the Graphics tab so that the Track Inspector appears.

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How Do You Do That?

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