Chapter 4
Menus, Menus, Art and Function
If Timelines are the highways on a DVD, then Menus are the gateways to those roads. DVD menus offer perhaps the greatest advantages over VHS. With menus, a DVD’s features may be seen and accessed instantly. Menu creation has become an art form of its own right with the use of spectacular backgrounds, motion transitions, video backgrounds and motion thumbnails.
Encore is supplied with professionally designed templates that can be put to use in minutes. This speeds the production process and allows a beginning author to quickly create professionally designed menus and buttons.
It is recommended that everyone, not just beginning authors, explore the templates included with Encore. The concepts learned from ...
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