Create your Own DVD Menus 

Many DVD authoring tools are available in the market. For example, Adobe has its Adobe Encore DVD, Ulead has Ulead DVD Workshop. Good free DVD authoring tools are hard to find. Trial versions of commercial tools are available for download. We chose Ulead DVD Workshop 2.0 for creating DVD menus.

This tool can be used to add dynamic DVD motion menus to still/ moving images. It can also be used to capture and encode any video to MPEG, create playlists and add multiple subtitle and audio tracks.

In case you are not capturing a video, then go to Edit tab and click on the add clip button at the bottom to choose the video clips whose menus you want to create Choose either a single clip, which can be then divided into multiple chapters or pick multiple clips, which can be displayed in the DVD menu Now divide the clip into multiple chapters (not if you already have multiple clips). Play the clip, pause it where you want next chapter to start from. Now click on the 'Insert current frame as chapter' Select the clip for which you have to make the menus and then click on the Menus tab on the top of the interface. The chapters will also appear under the Menu tab Now click on the select menu button at the bottom of the screen. A number of options to choose the style of the menu will pop-up in a new window Select the kind of menu, type in the text and link the chapter or a video with the menu text by dragging and dropping the chapter from the right column to the text Once through with creating menus and linking them, click on the Finish tab on the top and you will be able to view the final result. Check it and then click on the Burn DVD button

Ankit Kawatra