How to Create a DVD Menu

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: March 29, 2019

This wikiHow teaches you how to create a DVD menu for a video project in Adobe Premiere Elements for Windows or macOS.

Steps

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Open your video in Adobe Premiere Elements. It’s easy to add a DVD menu to your Adobe Premiere Elements project. If you haven’t yet imported your video, here’s how to do so now:
- Open Adobe Premiere Elements on your computer. You should find it in the Start menu under All Apps (PC) or in the Applications folder (Mac).^{[1]
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- Click Add Media at the top-left corner.
- Select the source of your video/clips.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to import the video or clips into your project.
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It’s on the Tools panel. A list of DVD menu templates will appear.
If you added menu markers to your project, select one of the templates that has at least 3 menu buttons.
Premiere will automatically place markers for menu buttons on your DVD based on your preferences.
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Customize your menu buttons. Here’s how you can help Premiere know where to create menu markers:
- Click Settings under the check box.
- If you’d like menu buttons to point to the start of each separate clip in your project, select At Each Scene.
- To create menu buttons based on time, select Every _ Minutes, and then specify how many minutes should pass between each menu marker.
- To set a certain number of markers for the whole video, select Total Markers, then enter how many markers/menu items to create.
This adds your new menu to the video. The menu markers will be added to the Expert view timeline.
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Customize your DVD menu (optional).
- To change a menu’s background, click the thumbnail for that option on the Disc Menu panel, click Browse, and then select a photo or clip. Adjust the properties as needed.^{[3]
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- To resize an object on the menu, select the thumbnail, click the object you want to resize, then drag the borders to the desired size.
- To change text in a menu (if it’s not connected to a marker), double-click the text, edit the text in the ″Change Text″ field, and then click OK.
- To change menu text that is connected to a marker, double-click the text, edit the text in the ″Menu Marker″ box, and then click OK.
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