Pioneer DVR-A03 IDE DVD-R/RW - Page 10

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Next you must place the buttons that will guide the user to press and see a video or an image. Once again, just drag&drop as the arrow shows. Here we have added a second menu with red background and 2 green balloons:

What about text? Easy to add. Select the desired font and drag&drop in your workarea. The text properties can be changed through the "Effect" drop down dialogue. Text shading effects are created automatically:

Next stage is to link the buttons with the desired Videos/pictures. We have 4 Mpeg2 files that can be linked to each button with a simple move (drag&drop). With the same principal we will link the second menu , with the red background, from our first menu:

Lets move on to our second menu. Again, we perform the necessary links with drag&drop moves:

Our project is finished. Let's move on to the build-in player to see if our menus are properly linked and working. Note that when the cursor is above a button, it automatically lights up:

Time to burn our project. Head over to "Build>>Disc". From here you can select the output size (either CD-R or DVD-R/W) and the volume name:

After that we must select our output recorder (Pioneer DVR-A03 in our case), select the number of copies and the writing mode (test, test and write, write). In our example MyDVD prompt us that the inserted Mpeg videos are not properly encoded for DVD authoring and therefore will not play in standalone DVD players:

MyDVD starts the conversion and after some time we have an OK message. Our first DVD (or cDVD) project is now completed:

MyDVD is really very easy for someone to use, even if he/she doesn't have any experience with similar Video editing software. Sonic has announced several new features for the upcoming MyDVD v3.0 and we hope that it will soon be bulked with the Pioneer drive. For more advanced projects, Sonic and other companies have developed more poweful utilities...