Designing the Menus and Buttons
DVD Studio Pro provides tools that make it easy to create menus without relying heavily
on outside graphics applications. For simple titles whose main focus is to provide
information, you may be able to rely on the basic button-and-text capability of
DVD Studio Pro to create your menus.
For custom titles, you’ll need to create your own graphics. Creating graphics for use with
video is a bit different from creating graphics for print. Be sure to see
Creating Graphics
to Use in Menus
for information on creating graphics for your title.
In either case, because menus and the buttons on them are the viewers’ primary way of
interacting with your title, it is important to spend time making sure that they are
straightforward, with logical button navigation and clear highlights that let viewers know
where they are in the menu.