Making DVDs and VCD's in VideoWave 5 Power Edition

Create personalised DVD's and VideoCds complete with interactive menus, buttons, backgrounds, Audio, and text. (transcribed from Roxio.com).
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• Right mouse click on the library window and select "Add Files." Browse and locate the video and audio clips that you would like to use.
• On the Mode Selector click on the "DVD" button to create your VCD/DVD.

Authoring

• The Project Dialog will appear. Select DVD, Mini DVD or VCD

Adding Background Image

• On the mode Selector, click on the Background pictures button in Authoring Mode.
• Select the Background that you would like to use.
• Left mouse click on the background picture in the Background library.
• Drag and drop the picture into the View screen. You should see your background applied in the view screen.
• Any image can be used as a background. Simply add it to the library before entering DVD authoring mode.

Adding Video Assets:

• Note: The video assets added in this step can be of any format supported by Video Wave 5. Such as AVI, MPEG-2, or MPEG-1. Before burning Videowave will convert all video assets to MPEG-2 for DVD and Mini DVD and MPEG-1 for VCD's.
• On the Mode Selector, click on the Video Button in Authoring Mode.
• From the video library, drag the video titles to the Viewscreen. VideoWave will automatically generate a thumbnail button with your video.

Adding Buttons

• On the mode Selector click on "Buttons" button in Authoring mode.
• From the button library drag a button to the thumbnail you would like to change.
• You can resize the thumbnail by using the mouse and dragging the edges.
• To change the image in your thumbnail using the mouse, highlight the thumbnail and move the frame slider to advance to a more appropriate frame.
• To easily arrange your thumbnails, press the grid button below the viewscreen. This will also snap the buttons to grid.

Assigning Chapters

• Note: Within each title you can assign chapters. When the DVD title is playing chapters can be accessed by pressing the <<| (Next Chapter) or |>> (Previous chapter) Button.
• Highlight the title in the Disc Contents Strip. Click on the edit chapter button inside the Disc Content Strip.
• Using the Slider, advance to the title to the frame that will represent the start of a new chapter. Click the Add button

Adding Text

• On the mode Selector click on the Text Effects Button in Authoring Mode.
• By default the filename will appear below each thumbnail.
• Double click the text under the thumbnail. Edit as necessary.
• To change the text style, drag the style from the text library to the text on the Viewscreen.
• To change the text colour highlight the text under the thumbnail and press the color button below the Viewscreen.
• Using the colour sliders, change the text colour.
• To change the font style, highlight the text under the thumbnail and press the font button below the Viewscreen. Select desired font size and style.

Adding Audio:

• You can add 1 audio track to each menu, to run as background music.
• On the Mode Selector, click on Audio button in Authoring Mode.
• From the audio library drag a sound file to the Viewscreen.
• Pressing the Preview Audio Button below the Viewscreen will playback your audio.

Burning a DVD or VCD

• Click on the Burn Disc icon at the botton of the Mode Selector
• You have the option to burn your files to Hard Drive & DVD or just DVD.
• Select the appropriate Settings (PAL, Write Speed etc.) and press "Burn"