HOW TO AUTHOR SIMPLE STILL MENU (with AUDIO BGM) in ULEAD DVDWS2
This is a video guide, presented as an MPEG-1 video file:
http://www.tvpreservation.com/videos...laudiomenu.mpg
Right click and save as, please do not try to view while you download.
This is a still menu, with an audio background music. For this example, I used the intro theme of the show (that's generally a safe menu music to use).
I pre-made the image files, and all the video and audio files are already prepared. The menu background is a BMP image made in Photoshop 6, and the button was made in Photoshop 7 (because 7 or CS is required to make buttons, for DVDWS2 to understand them).
The video files are all off of a DVD recorder, the audio+video is together in an MPEG file. I did not address how to use separate video and audio files (for example, that is what you'll have if you had restored audio or video).
Any time you see my mouse pointer pop up a menu, it means I right-clicked. When I was laying out the menu buttons, I only right clicked to show copy/paste once, the other times I did CTRL-C and CTRL-V on my keyboard, faster.
You may need to watch the video a few times to understand what I did. On my computer, Windows Media Player 9 was barfing on my MPEG file because it did not have audio. So I watched my video in PowerDVD or WinDVD, something to keep in mind if your WMP barfs.
Authoring is a fast process. As you saw, I had a disc laid out in under 5 minutes. The "hard part" of creating DVDs is really just getting your assets ready, like video and audio and images. The actual layout step is nothing.