Example using Menus

Now we are going to try something a bit more adventurous. A DVD with two mpeg2 files and a Menu to enable the viewer to select Film 1 or Film 2.

In simple terms Polidori allows you to create one or more Titles, with each Title containing one or more Chapters.

Typically Titles are used to represent complete self contained videos, and the Chapters are used to break each of the Titles up into smaller parts.

In such a case it would be preferable to have :-

a) A main Menu to select Title 1 or Title 2

b) Each Title to have a Menu to select the various Chapters within each Title.

Normally, each Chapter links to the following Chapter sequentially within a given Title, and each of the Titles eventually links back to the Main Menu.

For this example we are going to create a DVD containing two MPEG2 files and a Menu to select at run time which of the two MPEG2's are to be selected. We are not going to worry about Chapters in this case.

Start Polidori and create a new project say “testmenu”.

Select the “Add +” button and you should now have one Title with one Chapter.

Highlight “Title 1” and then select the “+ Add” button at the bottom left of the window. You should now have two Titles, each with it's own Chapter.

If you wish you can double click on each of the Titles and Chapter names and change them to something more meaningful to the project.

Your Polidori screen should now look something like this

And after adding your MPEG2 files