Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 253)

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Last updated 8/12/2010
Chapter 14: Creating disc menus
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are a great way to share your video with family and friends. The small, lightweight discs are
easy to pack and mail, making them an ideal medium for delivering your movies. By using the
Adobe Premiere Elements menu templates and their automated features, you can create professional-looking DVDs
and Blu-ray Discs quickly and easily.
Types of discs and menu options
About auto-play and menu-based discs
Using Adobe Premiere Elements and your disc burner, you can create two main types of DVDs or Blu-ray Discs: auto-
play without menus or menu-based. The first step in creating a disc is deciding on the type you want to create.
If you want an auto-play disc, you can simply create your movie, export it to a disc format, and burn it to disc. If,
however, you want to create a menu-based disc, add menus to your movie using Adobe Premiere Elements menu
templates.
Adobe Premiere Elements menu templates are predesigned menus that come in a variety of themes and styles. The
buttons on the templates automatically link to menu markers placed in the movie. The menus are created dynamically
based on the markers you’ve placed, and additional menus are added if needed. You can add, move, or delete menu
markers after choosing a template, or you can add menu markers in the Timeline before you select a menu template.
Adobe Premiere Elements automatically adjusts the menus to match the markers.
Note: The available menus are set to the project’s aspect ratio. For example, if the project’s aspect ratio is set for widescreen
playback, the menus also play back in widescreen.
More Help topics
“ Video CD formats ” on page 279
“ Creating disc menus ” on page 248
“ Add scene markers automatically ” on page 251
“ Add menu, scene, or stop markers manually ” on page 252
“ Burn to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc ” on page 264
Auto-play discs
Auto-play discs contain no menus and begin playing when inserted into a DVD or Blu-ray Disc player. They work best
for presenting single movies that you want to view from start to finish. They are the easiest type of disc to create—you
simply export the movie to a disc.
If you want to use Next and Previous buttons on the player’s remote control to jump to specific points in the movie,
set menu or scene markers to specify the chapters, or jumping points. Because an auto-play disc does not distinguish
between main menu markers and scene markers, you can add either type of marker for the chapter points.
Make sure to preview the movie and ensure that the markers are in the right locations before burning to disc.
Note: Auto-play discs ignore stop markers.