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Final:
After all movies are set up, menus designed, links checked... you can start the authoring process with dvdauthor or MuxMan.
'Create DVD' will loop through all defined menus and create the PNG/BMP
images, XML control files and BAT start files. Afterwards, the batch
files are started and you get an output screen where the messages from
the command line programs are shown. If 'Edit author.xml file before DVD creation process' is enabled in the default project settings, the editor is started before the final dvdauthor run.
'Create Batch' does pretty much the same, but will not start the batch
files itself. You may
then start
the batch files by hand (maybe after reworking with a text editor) from
a command line
window. If you start the batch files one by one, take care for the
correct sequence, as shown in the MainBatch.bat file
(or start the MainBatch.bat directly).
This option may also be used to batch run several projects. See: Batch Processing
'Syntaxchk.' In order to test, whether you mistyped anything (for
button / menu actions), you can run a 'syntax check'. In this
case dvdauthor.exe with a dvdauthor.xml file is started, which contains
all 'commands', but no MPGs (set only as "Test.mpg"). Thus
typing errors can be found, logical errors like a jump to a missing
menu cannot be recognized this way unfortunately. For MuxMan this option is not implemented.
For 'Burn DVD' and 'Show DVD' see:
Burning (using NeroCmd/imgburn)
DVD Preview (Show DVD)