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Startscreen and general UI description
After the first start the program should
look like this (picture is a little compressed here):
If the buttons 'Create DVD' and 'Create Batch' are deactivated, GFD
could not find the path to dvdauthor (or MuxMan if selected as authoring engine). In this case open the Def.
Settings and set a correct path in the tab: Permanent. A similar
requirement applies for 'Show DVD': This button is only active if you
have selected a DVD Soft Player like WinDVD, Media Player Classic or
PowerDVD (works only with Version 6!) in the settings. You may
also change the program language (german or English) in the tab
'Intern'.
As usual you have several
possibilities to do something in GFD:
- Choose a menu command
- Use an icon or button (Insert, Settings,
Final)
- Use the context menus (right
click/double click) for the element
All elements (buttons, texts, images...) can be moved with the mouse or with the cursor keys.
Some commands (insert menu/button/animation) are disabled (grayed
out) if they 'contradict' a general setting (like advanced mode or
animated menus)
IMPORTANT: The authoring engine (dvdauthor or MuxMan) and the General Settings (Def. Settings, tab: Project) cannot be changed (Animated menus and Advanced mode to 'on', but not off again), as soon as the first
film is added!
PAL/NTSC:
I (hopefully!) don't have to explain…
Animated menus: Enables the creation of
motion menus (AVISynth
and HCbatch or QuEnc necessary!). Enter the duration of your intended
motion menu
in the 'Seconds' text box. Caution: If you use an animated background
video, or also a still background video with
sound, you have to make sure that the duration of these background
elements fits to the duration given here. Otherwise 'loop' will not
work correct... For animated buttons it is not necessary to have the
same duration, as
they are looped (if necessary) within the given duration for the
background. The duration is just a default and may be changed for each
menu individually. Since version 0.99.2 you may turn on Animated menus
at any time, but not off again. Furthermore no animated buttons are
created for already existing film buttons.
Use Titlesets : If this option is activated,
for each
added film an own titleset (and thus a chapter menu) is created
(->
multi
VTS DVD). In this mode you may mix several video resolutions/aspect ratios on one DVD.
Advanced mode: Enables the creation of
submenus (i.e. for
subtitle and language selection, but also for multi page chapter
selections or other special purposes). As you are more or less
responsible for the DVD logic by yourself using this mode, it is for
advanced users mainly. Since version 0.99.2 you may turn on Advanced mode at any time, but not off again.
No Menus: If
enabled, a DVD
without menus is created. You can add the movies like usual (also use
several audio streams, chapter marks...), so there is no big difference
in the work flow. This setting is even hard to notice at all during the
setup of the DVD. But if you try to open a titlesetmenu you will get an
error. The settings for advanced mode and animations are disabled and
the start/end actions are automatically set to 'Play movie' and 'Next
title' During the final creation process the following rules apply:
- For single VTS no menus are created at all;
- For multi VTS empty (black) dummy mpegs are used (at least Nero rises
an error otherwise), but these are never shown (jumped over with a
<pre> tag before the menu). Using MuxMan, no menus are created at all.
Loop with jump menu:
Fixes the shortening of looping menus for PowerDVD and some SA players.
The syntax for the looping is much more complicated (and not well
tested ATM), so changing the XML files by hand is more difficult with
this setting.