Operation Manual

Chapter 10: The Title Editor 193
Picture objects behave just like text objects and the two
types of graphic object with respect to grouping,
alignment and similar controls.
The Buttons section
Since buttons are the magic ingredient that turns
titles into interactive menus, this section of the
Title Editor Album is mainly of interest for DVD, VCD
and S-VCD authoring.
Broadly speaking, a button is an area of the screen with
which the user can interact in some way. Buttons are
classified according to the action they produce when
the user activates them, and not by their appearance,
which generally should be chosen to give a strong clue
to their behavior, but is not required to. The four types
of button are:
• Normal: Clicking the button causes playback to
jump to a chapter (that is, ordinary video) or another
menu. The link between the button and its target is
created in the Clip properties tool, not in the Title
Editor.
• Thumbnail: This special form of the normal button
type displays a thumbnail frame (or a moving
thumbnail preview) from the part of the movie to
which it links.
• Previous: This button appears on the second and
later pages of multi-page menus (menus with more
links from normal or thumbnail buttons than will fit
on one page). It links to the previous menu page.
• Next: This button appears on all but the last page of
multi-page menus; it links to the following page.