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Table Of Contents
- Site Settings
- Index Site Settings
- Avid Liquid Reference Manual
- Contents
- Introduction
- Documentation
- Basics
- Signup
- High Definition
- Input
- Logging and Digitizing (Capture)
- EZ Capture
- Starting EZ Capture
- Basics
- The Logging Tool and Its Functions
- Video Inlay, Timecode Fields and Status Field
- Player Source (D)
- Reels and Racks (E, F)
- Controls (Player and Edit Buttons, G)
- A/V Inputs (Selecting Source Tracks, H)
- Stereo or Mono (I)
- 4:3 or 16:9 (I)
- Selecting a Media Format/Codec Preset (J)
- Destination Volumes for Digitizing / Capture Volumes (K)
- Select Audio Monitor /Mute
- Video Tool / Calibration Control /IPB Settings
- Clip Tab: Naming and Numbering Clips
- Color Correction Tab
- Audio Tab
- Master Tab
- Media Tab
- Send Clips To Timeline (Direct Insert)
- Properties
- Methods
- File Ingest
- Background Live Capture
- Importing Objects
- Copying/Pasting Objects from Other Projects
- Media Management and Object Import
- Creating Objects
- Voice-Over
- Importing EDL/AVID MediaLog Files
- Exchange
- Administration
- The Project
- The Object
- Media Management
- Edit
- Video Editing
- Audio in the Timeline
- Special Functions
- Finish
- Effects in Avid Liquid: The Basics
- Detailed Description of Classic Effect Editors
- Realtime FX
- AFX PlugIns
- Special FX
- Timewarps and Color Correction
- Color Correction Editor
- Linear Timewarp
- Timewarp Editor
- Audio
- Audio Postproduction and Audio Effects
- Basics
- ASIO Driver and DirectSound
- 32-bit Floating Point Audio
- Special Characteristics of Audio Clips
- Inserting Audio Clips on the Timeline
- Assigning Tracks
- Stereo and Mono, Panorama and Balance
- Muting Timeline Tracks (Audio Playback)
- Audio Scrubbing - Digital or Analog
- Working with more than 16 Audio Source Tracks (Real- Time Playback)
- Audio Tool
- Audio Editor
- Special Functions
- SmartSound: Background Music Made to Measure
- Audio Effects
- Avid Liquid Plugin Audio Effects (VST)
- Basics
- Audio Postproduction and Audio Effects
- Titler
- DVD Authoring
- Export
- Customize Avid Liquid
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 16 DVD Authoring
DVD Menu Buttons
These buttons allow you to turn a normal title into a DVD menu. They control navigation while
also using visual highlights, if desired.
Button Types
Except for the menu background, any object on the desktop can be declared a menu button. Click the
object and assign it a button type from the list:
Normal button -
The standard button, a round or rectangular object, a text button.
Thumbnail button -
A button with a miniature field containing, for example, the first frame of a video chapter (Picon). These
buttons usually appear as picture frames, meaning that they have an area of transparency (alpha).
Previous button -
In multi-page menus, the button that takes you to the previous page.
Next button -
In multi-page menus, the button that takes you to the next page.
Not a button -
Lets you cancel a button assignment.
Prepared Buttons
You can simply drag these buttons from the palette to the desktop where you can position and scale them
as desired. To change the button type, click the button to select it and select the desired type from the list.
According to the DVD specification, no more than 36 buttons are allowed on one DVD menu.
To replace a button, select it and then double-click another design in the palette.
The buttons that come with the product are located in the.../Media/DVD/Buttons directory of your Avid
Liquid installation.