User Manual

WAVELAB
20 – 558 DVD-Audio projects
Default still picture and picture effects
As described in the section “Using DVD-A picture and text tracks” on
page 546, an Audio Montage can contain picture tracks. Still pictures
placed on such a track will be burnt onto a DVD-A disc and displayed
when the DVD-A is played back in a player that is able to read and show
still pictures in a connected video display.
Here you can specify whether the DVD-A project should use a default still
picture or not and also the default effect transitions between pictures. The
picture you specify as default will be displayed from the beginning of the
Montage.
Note however that each Montage in a DVD-A project can also have its
own specific settings for which pictures should be displayed and which
effect transitions between pictures should be used. In other words, you
can make default settings in this dialog which will then be used unless
you specify other settings in a Montage, which will then override the de-
fault settings (see “Still picture properties dialog” on page 546 for infor-
mation about making settings for pictures in a Montage picture track).
This means that it’s not possible to use both a default still picture and pic-
tures in a Montage picture track.
• Note that a Montage in a DVD-Audio project does not need to contain a pic-
ture track if you want to use a default picture.
So even if a Montage doesn’t contain a picture track, you can still specify a default picture
for it which will be displayed when the DVD-A is played back.
Generating DVD menus
DVD-A discs can optionally contain what is referred to as a “visual menu”
of their contents. Many DVD-A players are able to make use of such a
menu, either in an integrated display in the player itself, or in a connected
external display.
WaveLab lets you create a visual menu that can contain information about
the album title and the album tracks, allowing the user to navigate the
contents of the disc and perform track selection for playback.