Chapter 7

Takin’ on Hollywood

Advanced Menu Authoring

Once you’ve become familiar with creating simple menus and buttons in Encore, you quickly branch off into some of the more complicated and creative facets of DVD authoring. None of these features are required for a basic DVD, but the creative author will enjoy taking their DVD’s to the next level.

Create Audio/Language and Subtitle Submenus

If you imported several audio tracks or created subtitle tracks for one feature, it makes sense to create a DVD menu that allows the viewer to access those additional tracks.

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Basically a button on an audio/language/subtitle submenu instructs the DVD player ...

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