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Create or Author a New Project
Authoring or creating a movie project involves:
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Creating video
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Creating menus with buttons
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Adding movie clips to your project
•
Previewing the project
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Recording to disc from the project
For advanced editing and story creation capabili-
ties, use the Pinnacle Systems’ Studio 7 software.
1. Click
New MyDVD Project
on the Wizard, then
the
Next
button or click
New Project
on the
toolbar.
Choose Your Style
A style consists of a background image and a layout
for menu buttons and labels. For more information
on editing styles, see the MyDVD User Guide.
2. Select a category of menu styles from the
Category
drop-down list.
3. Scroll through the list, click the style to use for
your layout (for example, background, menus,
and buttons).
4. Click the
Finish
button.
Add Movie Clips to Your DVD Menu
5. Click
Get Movies
on the toolbar.
6. Locate the clip you want to link to your menu.
Note:
MyDVD saves movie clips to the
My Videos
folder
located in the
My Documents
folder on your desktop. You
can save movie clips in other locations.
7. Click
Open
to add movie clips to your DVD
project.
Scroll to
desired style
My Movie Final.p65
2/6/2002, 7:20 PM
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