Text menus in VS9

[burgo]

Please someone tell me that they have given us the option of text menus in VS9, graphic buttons can give the finished DVD an amateur look, I read that there would be moving menus, I would settle for the inclusion of text.

Has anyone any first impressions on the new version ?

[THoff]

It's not mentioned in the PDF version of the manual, and I doubt that one of the supplied templates enables it somehow.

[jday]

I did a quick test by adding a couple of the short included stock clips and then going to the make menu step. I did NOT see any way to make text only menus with the templates and menus included with the program.

[randazzo]

If you want to know the developments in VS9 concerning the DVD burning facilities just look at DVD movie factory. And take one version lower than the actual. So, right now the functionality of the burning module en the menu's with VS9 is comparable with DVD MF3.

Jean-Pierre

[burgo]

It is a shame that the product misses out something as important when the technology is available. Waiting until version 10 seems a bit a joke really.

Can Videostudio files be copied in to MF so they can be added then ? This seems a shame as MF looks like a cut down version of VS, perhaps I am just being thick.

[Ken Berry]

MF is not a cut down version of anything really. You have to think of it as a complementary package to VS. VS is primarily an editing program which, for convenience's sake, happens to have a basic burning module attached to it (which nontheless does most things that people want). MF, on the other hand, is primarily a production-end/authoring program, which, for convenience sake, happens to have some basic editing capacities. Thus, VS is a lot more sophisticated for editing, while MF is much fancier in its authoring/burning capacities. I happen to use both for this very reason. At the upper end of the market, Media Studio is fancy editing program (though usually comes bundled with another burning program), while Video Workshop is the upper end authoring complement to it.

[burgo]

Okay, understand now.

So I could import my edited video with VS8/9 into MF4 and create the menus from there ?

This could be worthwhile as the menu editing of VS is I agree limited. Do you find any drawbacks using these 2 different pieces of software ?

thanks for the explanation.

[nt88498]

So, just to verify, MF4 Disk Creator does allow text menus (without the buttons)?

I tried finding it on the Ulead website and didn't see where it said either way whether text menus were possible.

Does anyone know for sure?

[thecoalman]

For what it's worth you have a limited ability to customize menus in both MF and VS using Photoimpact. You could add the text manually as an image in other words.

If you want absolute control (e.g. a blank page you can add just about anything to) DVD Workshop provides that but is bit pricey for the average consumer.