I knew you could author a book
But I never knew you could author a DVD
Hey guys how you doing out there
It's me you boy Maliek from PinnacleStudioPro.com
Alright my Pinnacle peeps
I'm back on your screen once again
Cause I had to bring you a tutorial
For DVD authoring or creating discs
In Pinnacle Studio 18 Ultimate
Let's get into it
Alright peeps let's go ahead
Hook up with a disc menu and then author a disc
As you can see I got my timeline set up and ready to go
I edited everything I'm good
So what I'm gonna do now is I'm a click on the
Author tab it's gonna ask me if I want to
Creat a disc project from my open movie and
The answer to that of course is si or yes
Or oui or whatever language you speak
So now that we're in the author tab it does a few things
It opens up a menu list
This menu list is where we're gonna drop
Our menu and submenus
That we're gonna use in our movie
Then we also have a few extra buttons like
Button name chapter button some linking buttons
Things like that
Then we have a whole bunch of menus and submenus
So for each menu there is a submenu
That corresponds to it to the right of the menu
The first thing I'm gonna to do is drag a menu
Down into the menu lists so I'm gonna left-click
On the blank menu hold down my mouse
And drop it down into the menu list
And what it does automatically is it adds a
Intro and chapters to your video
Intro is basically just a short clip that plays before
The menu pops up so for some reason
It made into a long I was gonna drag this chapter over
And I'm a drag it to a place where I want the intro
To stop now the chapters do
Have magnetic locking
So they'll lock in wherever you have
A split in the timeline
So now I got my intro
I got my chapter one where it will go to
To play the main menu
And at the end it automatically adds a return button
So this is like at the end it'll return it back
To the main menu
Now if I click on the main menu
You get a preview of it here
With the text & everything that's gonna play
Your buttons all of that good stuff
Now if I click on his simulator button
It's going to play the disc
What it would be so far
Now it's playing the intro if I hit Menu
This is what would show up after the intro plays
Now there is no scene selection button
Shown here because I don't have any scenes
I have no chapters we gotta fix that right
Yeah let's do that so I'm gonna close this out
And now I'm gonna select a submenu
I'm gonna select the one that matches it
Left click hold down my mouse
And drag it down to the menu list
Now it went ahead and set up the submenu
And you can see I have my different submenus
Thumbnails but still there's nothing in here yet
Well I have to connect the clips to the submenu
So there's a button here called Chapter Wizard
I'm gonna click on the Chapter Wizard and it's gonna
Create chapters for us
Now its gonna ask how we want to create them
You wanna have 20 seconds between each chapter
Apply it to the whole movie
And we want to link the chapters to the menu buttons
Yes we do want to do all of that so I'm gonna click OK
So it's working now you see there's
Chapter buttons that already added themselves
To the time line and now what's happening is
Each submenu is putting in the
Thumbnails that correlate to where those
Chapter markers are and now it's done
So if I scroll over here you see I have a chapter
Every 20 seconds but I don't want
A chapter every 20 seconds I changed my mind
I want to create chapters every time there's a split
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to the end
The reason why l'm doing this is cause when I choose
A chapter I want to take it off of the end
Of the video if I take off ones in the middle
It'll leave spaces in some of these submenus
So I'm gonna click on his chapter
And then I'm gonna click on remove chapter
Go to the next one and I'm gonna do the same thing
I think I'll do it for 3 of them now see how that works
Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag these
Chapter markers to each one of these splits that I have
So I have one extra chapter here so I'm gonna
Click on that one and I'm going to remove it
And now you can see here that there's actually
The chapter with nothing in it not a good thing
So I'm gonna click on sort and now it fixed that
Corrected the missing chapter that I had
And now I just have a menu with just
2 in at the end this one I don't need anymore
Cause it has nothing selected so I'm going to
Right click on it and do delete selected menu pages
Now even though this one has nothing selected to it
It's still showing up if I were to click on the disc simulator
You see that there's nothing there so you're good to go
So let's close this out now the next thing is
I'm still not really done it has here a little thing it says
This menu is not reachable because there are no links
To this menu and they all have that on it
So it's like okay so I need to fix that
So I'm gonna click on the main menu
And where it has seen selection I'm gonna left click
Hold that down
And I'm gonna drag it over to the first submenu
And let it go
Now that little red thing is gone
They're all linked up we're good to go
Now let's go into the main menu and talk about
How to hook this up so if we left click on it
Or double click it and then hit the edit button
So now we have our text editor open and we can
Click on any one of the layers here to activate it
Type in whatever text you want whatever we want it to
Say it's pretty simple you know how to use a text editor
To edit all of this not a button
This tells you this one is not a button
If I were to click on Play movie
It's a normal but
Change it to a different type of button if I want to
When it's selected and you can click on it
It's available to be clicked on it'll be yellow
Once you click on it it'll turn green
You can change those colors if you want
You can set it as a still
thumbnail or you have it as a movie if you like
Drag in a uh...
Video clip or something like that let's say I just
Drag this on here I can make this a button if I want to
Alright so now it can be activated as a button
If I want to add a background
I can just go here to the to
Available tabs or I can add a new tab
Can click on it left click drag it into the
Background now I have a background
If I wanna add audio click on that
Go to a audio tab drag in some audio
So that audio will play now you can
Go head and choose a fade for the audio if you want to
So it'll play while the menu is playing
Alright so I'm gonna click on OK
And you can do the same thing with the submenus
Double click on of them
Or click it and choose edit
Submenus will come up
You can change the name
Of the chapters if you wanna just call 'em something
Instead of having chapter numbers you can
Call it birthday party or whatever you want to call it
These are thumbnails that our buttons right now
So if somebody clicks on a little play that
You have previous next and back to the main menu
Once again you can add a background
You can add audio can do all the same thing to this one
I'm gonna click on OK and now
I'm basically done with my lovely little menu
So now I can go ahead and
Export it so I'm gonna click on export
And it automatically goes to disk
And I can choose the type of disc that I want to burn
I'm gonna leave it on Blu ray Disc
Can choose a preset whether I want best quality
Custom or fit to disk
And then you have advanced settings here
Where you can change the encoding
You can change the bitrate
Can change the format of the image
Write speed all of that good stuff to lead this point
So then at this point you want to choose where you
Want the destination of the image to go to
So you can create a location save it to a location
It's up to you where you want the image to go to
And then you get to choose the device that you want
To burn to so if you have multiple optical drives
You choose the one that you want to burn to
And then you can either create the image
Or just straight up burn to disc or just
Burn to image then once you have everything set up
Just click on burn disc and you're good to go
DVD menu on your disc
For your viewing pleasure
Thanks for watching we'll see you again soon