Choosing DVD Menus

After organizing your photos, if you want to burn your slideshow onto a DVD disc, you can begin the second step: Choose DVD menus.

Click Choose Menus tab and you will come to the Choose Menus window. For speed and ease in designing your slideshow album, simply select from the list of templates. All the backgrounds, effects, and audio that come with the template are automatically applied to your slideshow album. You can click the selected template to apply it to your slideshow album; however, you can also choose to customize the menu by changing its background image and onscreen text, adding background music and setting playback order.

Edit Background Music for DVD Menu

You can choose to use the default music, which is 40s long, in the menu, but you can also add your own favorite music. For best results, choose a short clip of music that can easily repeat.

• Click the Background Music Tab.
• Click the Add button, there will be a popup window to select a music file from the local drive.
• Select an .mp3 or .wav file from the folder tree.
• The selected music file with file name and its whole directory path will be displayed on the right of the Add button.
• It is allowable for you to set the duration of the background music. You can also set the background music as long as the music file, but you need more time to encode. Here it is also allowable to extract audio track from your CD.
• Click Delete to remove your unsatisfied music from the list.

Change Background Image and Onscreen Text

To change background image, please click Background Image tab, and then click Add button to select you desired image on your computer. Click Delete to remove the selected image.

To change onscreen text, please click Edit tab. You can edit the text or change its font attributes.

• Enter your desired text in the text pane or just click the selected text in the menu and make any changes in the text pane.
• Set the font, size, color and the shadow effect of your entered text as you like. The effect will be shown in above preview window.
• You may set the visibility of other texts here. Just check your desired ones.
• The position of the onscreen text can be dragged everywhere within the menu as you like.

Set Playback Order by Menu Navigator

Making use of menu navigator can help you set the playback order of albums in the slideshow.

• Click the Menu Navigator tab and check the Use DVD Menu option.
• Select your desired order in the following drop-down list.

Preview the Slideshow

Here, you can preview the whole slideshow in DVD mode. Click Preview tab, and then click the corresponding number of each album in the control pane and then watch your slideshow.

If you are satisfied with you work, you can come the final step: exporting your slideshow.