MyDVD User Guide

Welcome to MyDVD ® , an easy disc-creation program that lets

you turn your videos and photos into professional-looking
multimedia disc projects, complete with image-rich menus and
music.
MyDVD offers a mode for users: Advanced Mode, where you
can customize your projects to add a personal touch.
In this guide, you will learn about

• MyDVD workspace, page 1

• Using Advanced Mode, page 5

• Project basics, page 12

MyDVD workspace
MyDVD has a mode: Advanced Mode. It has two different
workspaces that let you organize (Tree Mode) and edit (Edit
Menu).

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Advanced Mode

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Advanced Mode (showing Tree Mode workspace)s

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Advanced Mode includes an Edit Menu workspace with an

Edit panel and a toolbar.

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Using Advanced Mode
The Advanced Mode in MyDVD lets you customize your project
in a number of ways. For example, you can

• add submenus to organize your videos and photos

• edit the names in the menu and submenu lists

• add chapter points to videos (helpful for longer videos)

• change the background picture used for the template

• change the menu background music

You can save your project (.MyDVD file) so that you can work
on it later or output it to a different format.

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Before you start
It’s a good idea to think about how you
want to organize your media in your
Advanced Mode project. Advanced Mode
uses a tree structure and submenus to
organize projects.
Let’s take a look at an example project.
Example: I have a quite a few video clips
from a weekend trip. For my project, I
decide to include the best clips from three
different activities. My main menu title will
be “Winter Trip”, and I will create submenus
for each activity:

• Dog sledding (3 video clips)

• Snow Challenge (2 video clips)
• Parade (3 video clips)
In the example, the main menu template
has placeholders for four videos and each
submenu mimics the same structure. You
don’t need to use all the placeholders
(empty placeholders have no impact on the
final disc), but you cannot exceed four

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videos within a menu or submenu. If you have more than four
videos for any one group, you can create another substructure
that suits the project. In the example described, if there were
nine dog sledding videos, another submenu based on
participants could be created: Mom (3 videos), Dad (3 videos)
and Kids (3 videos).

To create a disc project in Advanced Mode

1. Start MyDVD.
2. In the New Project dialog box, choose the type of disc you
want to create:

• DVD

• AVCHD

• Blu-ray (not available in all versions)

3. In the Project Name dialog box, type a name for your
project and navigate to the location where you want to
save the project file.
4. In the MyDVD window, verify the mode by looking at the
bottom of the window. If you see the Advanced Mode
button, click it, and click Proceed.
5. In the Media Browser panel, click the Theme tab, and
choose a template.

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6. In the Media Browser panel, click the Media tab, and
navigate to the video and photo files that you want to add.
7. In the Tree Mode panel, look at the placeholders available
in the chosen template and decide how to organize your
project to accommodate your media. You can click the
menu button in the upper-right corner of a placeholder,
and click any of the following:

• Add Menu — adds a submenu

• Rename — lets you rename the selected menu

• Remove — removes the selected submenu

Note: You can drag the Zoom slider below the Tree Mode
panel to change the zoom level for the tree view.
8. When your structure is set, drag your media from the
Media Browser panel to the media placeholders.
Note: You can click the menu button in the upper-right
corner of a media placeholder to rename or remove a
media file.
9. Complete any additional editing. For more information,
see “To add chapters to a video” on page 11 and “To edit
menu layout, text, background imagery, or music” on page
12.
10. Verify the disc capacity for the project by checking
the Project size bar at the bottom of the window and

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 checking the Disc size drop- down menu to the right of the
bar.

11. When you are happy with your project, click one of
the following:

• Burn Project button —

burns your project to disc.
Ensure that there is a writable
disc in your disc drive.

• Save Project to an ISO Image

button — saves your
project to a single file that
functions like a disc.
Tip: You can mix-and-
match templates in your
project. In the Media Browser
panel, click the Theme tab,
and click the arrow to the
right of a template to reveal
the Main and Chapter
thumbnails. Clicking one of
these thumbnails updates the
currently selected menu,

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 submenu, or chapter placeholder in the Tree panel.
Tip: You can also add media to your tree by using the Add
Title command in the menu. The placeholder for the
media is added automatically, but you can’t control where
it is created (the next available location in the tree
structure).

To add chapters to a video

1. In the Tree Mode workspace of Advanced Mode, click the
thumbnail of the video to which you want to add chapters.
2. Click the menu button in the upper-right corner of the
placeholder and choose Add Chapters.
3. In the Edit Chapters dialog box, do one of the following:

• Below the video preview, drag the scrubber along the

time bar or use the playback controls to set the chapter
position, and click Add chapter here.

• In the Automatically create chapters area, set time

intervals for chapters by entering values for the minutes
(Min) and seconds (Sec), and click Go.
The chapter points and thumbnails are added to the
chapter list on the right side of the dialog box.

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 4. Click OK to return to the Tree Mode and review the new
Chapter Menu.
To edit menu layout, text, background imagery, or music
1. In the Tree Mode view of Advanced Mode, click the
thumbnail of the menu that you want to edit.
2. Click the Edit Menu button below the Tree Mode pane.
3. Do any of the following:

• To change the menu layout, click an object in the Edit

panel (a red box appears around the selected object), and
drag the object to a new position.

• To edit text, click a text object in the Edit panel, and

retype the text.

• To change the menu music, click the Music button

, and navigate to the audio file that you want to

use. You can also click the Volume button to set

the volume for the audio.

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 • To change the background image, click the Photo button

and navigate to the image file you want to use.

4. To review your changes, click the Play button .

5. When you are finished, click the Tree Mode button.

Project basics
There are a number of basic tasks that you can perform in
Advanced Mode.
Auto Save, Save, Save As
You can save your projects so that you can edit them later. By
default, autosaving is enabled, so your work is protected in the
event of a program or system interruption. You can turn off
autosaving if you do not want to overwrite your file as you
work. You can also use Save As to save different versions of
your project to a new file name.
Intro videos
You can add an intro video to your project (for example, a
bumper video or opening narrative).
Project settings

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At any time, you can review and change project settings. For
example, you can view the disc format, determine what
happens when you click menu items, lock button aspect ratio,
set alerts, and apply the chosen settings as the default for
future projects.
Erasing a disc
You can erase existing content from a disc before you burn.
To enable or disable autosave

• Click File menu > Auto Save Project.

A check mark indicates that Auto Save Project is enabled.
Note: Auto Save Project overwrites your project file as
you work. Use Save As and save to a new filename when
you want to create a different version of your project.
When Auto Save Project is off, you can use File menu >
Save to save your project manually.
To save a project to a new file name

• Click File menu > Save Project As, navigate to the location
where you want to save the file and type a file name.
The file is saved in the .MyDVD format.
To open a saved project

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1 Start MyDVD.
2 Click File menu > Open.
Tip: You can also open a project file from the New
Project dialog box by clicking Open Existing Project or
Open Last Project.
To add an intro video to your project
1. Click Tools menu > Add Intro Video.
2. Navigate to the video that you want to use, and click Open.
The intro video is added before the main menu. In
Advanced Mode, it displays in the tree structure.
To erase a disc
1. Ensure the disc you want to erase is in your disc drive.
2. Click Tools menu > Erase Disc.

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