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Burn a DVD DVDs let you share your movies with friends and family. You can create DVDs with or without menus. (See Understanding the types of DVDs you can create.) When you create a DVD with menus, you can choose from predesigned menu templates in a variety of styles and themes. In this tutorial you'll create a DVD from the birthday project you worked on in previous tutorials. You'll add scene markers, select a menu template, and create a DVD with both a main menu and a scene selection submenu. 1. Set Scene Markers for the scenes submenu. Open the birthday project you saved in the previous tutorial, "Add Titles." Click the Edit button in the task bar. Then, click the Timeline window to make it the active window. Choose Marker > Auto-Generate DVD Markers. Select the At Each Scene option, and click OK. (This command places a DVD Scenes Marker at the edit point between each clip on the Video 1 track.)

2. Delete extra markers in the slideshow. to the middle of the slideshow and zoom in. Adobe Premiere Elements Move the current-time indicator has placed markers at each photo. For the DVD, you need the slideshow marked as a scene, but you don't need each photo marked. Leave the DVD marker above the first photo, but double-click the DVD marker between the first and second photo. In the DVD Marker dialog box, click Delete. Delete the other three DVD markers above the subsequent photos.

3. Choose a DVD template.

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Click the DVD button in the task bar. The DVD Templates dialog box lists the available menu templates, which are grouped by theme. Choose the Happy Birthday theme. Select the Balloons template, and click OK. The DVD Layout window opens and displays the main menu for the DVD. At the bottom of the window, the DVD Menus box lists all the menus created for the project. In addition to the main menu, you'll find scenes menus with buttons that link to each DVD Scene Marker in the Timeline window.

4. Customize the menu titles of Main Menu 1 and Scenes Menu 1. Double-click Birthday Title in the main menu. In the Change Text dialog box, type Diana--5! and click OK. Then, select Scenes Menu 1 at the bottom of the DVD Layout window. Double-click Happy Birthday Title. Type Diana--5! and click OK.

5. Customize the buttons on Scenes Menu 1.

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Double-click the Scene 1 thumbnail button. In the DVD Marker dialog box, type Set Up in the Name box. When you change the button text, you also name the linked marker. Sometimes the frame marked by a Scene Marker is not the best thumbnail for a button, especially if the clip starts with a transition, like this one. To choose a different frame, position the pointer over the timecode displayed under the thumbnail. When the pointer changes to a hand and arrow , slowly drag to the right. Stop dragging when the scene changes to color. Click OK to see the new thumbnail and button name in the menu.

6. Delete the extra button, and name the remaining buttons. Note that the Scene 2 thumbnail button links to the second Party_Setup.avi clip, which you created when you split the clip. You don't need two markers for the same scene. Double-click the Scene 2 thumbnail button. In the DVD Marker dialog box, click Delete. This action deletes both the marker in the Timeline window and the button in the menu. Because all the remaining buttons fit on Scenes Menu 1, Adobe Premiere Elements automatically deletes Scenes Menu 2. Rename the remaining buttons as follows: Scene 2: Cake Scene 3: Gifts Scene 4: Photos

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7. Preview the DVD. Click Preview DVD, and then click the Play Movie button on the DVD menu. Once the movie starts, the transport controls become available. Place the pointer over each control to view the tool tips for each. When the main menu displays again, click the Scenes button on the DVD menu. Use the arrow keys and Enter button in the Preview window to select a button and play a scene. Note that each scene plays to the end of the movie. When you finish previewing the DVD, close the Preview window.

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8. Review the Burn DVD options. Click Burn DVD in the DVD Layout window. Although you don't need to burn a DVD of this birthday movie, you should review the settings in the Burn DVD dialog box: DVD Settings You can burn directly to a disc if your burner is compatible. If your burner isn't compatible, you can write to a folder and use the software that came with your DVD burner to burn the DVD. Quality Settings By default, Adobe Premiere Elements fits contents to available space, compressing video only as much as necessary to preserve quality. Compressing video for DVD is very time-consuming and can take several hours depending on the length and complexity of the movie. TV Standard These settings specify the television standard for your region so TV DVD players can play the DVD you create. For example, the clips used in this tutorial are in NTSC format. If you are in a PAL region, however, you would burn a DVD using the PAL television standard. For more information, see About burning a DVD and Burning a DVD.

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