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I'm currently using Videostudio X2.

During the creation process, I'm trying to use one of the HD menus and trying to change the justification from center to left. I can't seem to make changes to it.

Also, how do you make a menu from scratch? Like, I don't want to take one of Ulead's menus and modify them. I want to be able to create one starting with nothing.

Even with X2, menu/chapter creating is still the worst part of the whole experience for me.

I don't think you can change justification, the assumption probably being that Menu and Chapter titles will normally only be a word or two, and if one word appears below another, you could use the space bar to move the word along a bit... And of course, the text box as a whole moves.

But Video Studio, regardless of version, never claimed to strong on the authoring side. It is primarily an editing program which happens to have an authoring/burning module attached to make it stand-alone. In earlier versions, the authoring/burning module was fairly basic, but has gradually got better and IMHO is today pretty good.

For those wanting more control, there is always Movie Factory, but you can't build a menu from scratch with that either. That was only possible in Ulead DVD Workshop, which has now been dumped by Corel. In any case, it was fairly old, and I am not sure it even produced widescreen menus (though I could be wrong on that). Certainly it could not deal with high definition.

So ultimately, the only way I know of to produce a menu which will work with VS is using Corel/Ulead PhotoImpact which has the .ufo format used by VS templates.