User Guide

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ADDING CONTENT
First thing's first: Let's add some content to your project! After all, you can't really do much else until you have all
the photos and videos that you'd like to include on your DVD, right? Okay, so when you start out, you can do all of
the following:
• Insert a previously saved video
• Insert an existing slide show
• Insert a PowerPoint file (each slide will be converted to a still image)
• Create a new slide show
Take a look at the main screen. The bulk is taken up by a blank movie menu. You'll add content, with each
component inserted into the menu as a separate chapter. Don't worry too much about how your menu looks just
yet. The first step focuses exclusively on adding content. You can completely customize the look and feel of your
menu(s) later.
INSERTING A VIDEO
You have your cool DV camcorder. You've recorded some cool video. You've transferred it to your computer. And
now you want to play it on your DVD player. Well, adding video clips to a DVD SlideShow project is as basic as it
gets.
To add video clips to your project:
1. Click "Insert Video."
2. Navigate to the folder that contains the videos you want to add.
3. Select the file you want to add. Hold down the CTRL key while clicking to select
multiple files.
4. Click "Open." Your files will be added to your project.
INSERTING AN EXISTING SLIDE SHOW
You can create photo slide shows that are added as individual chapters in your movie. Whenever you create a
slide show, you can save it to your computer for use later (you aren't limited to creating a slide show for use in
only one movie).
To insert a previously saved slide show into your project, you basically follow the
same procedure as adding a video, except instead of clicking "Insert Video," you click
"Insert Slide Show."
Then, search for the slide show file you want to add, and double-click it (or highlight it and click "Open"). (See the
chapter "Creating A Slide Show" for details on making a slide show.)
INSERTING A POWERPOINT FILE
Add PowerPoint files in the same way that you add video clips and previously saved slide show files. Each slide in
the presentation will be converted to a standard image file, and the whole thing can be edited just like slide shows
that you create within the program.
To insert a PowerPoint file, click "Insert PowerPoint," then browse for and select the
file on your system.