Ulead PHOTOIMPACT 11 User Manual

Ulead Photo Impact 11 Tutorial How to create a custom DVD Menu using Photo Impact 11 for use with:- DVD Workshop 2 DVD Movie Factory 4 Video Studio

Group Path = C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\ then add the following… WS2 Frames Ulead DVD Workshop 2\Contents\Frame WS2 Overlay Ulead DVD Workshop

Milestone Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\Template\16_9\Milestone Speed Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\Template\16_9\Speed Travel Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\Template\16_9\

Now go to C:\DVD Items\DVD layout Guides and double click the file DVD layout Guides.UOL This will create another library with three items inside.

Now click the icon shown in the picture below and select Load from the drop down list. Navigate to your DVD Files And double click the UOL file

Creating a new DVD menu from a blank screen We are now ready to begin creating our first home made DVD Menu. Start off by selecting File, New, New DV

If you have to save and close the project before you have finished working on it, when you later re-open the menu, the ruler lines will NOT be display

. Now use the bucket tool and fill the area with black Next I am going to place 4 frames onto the screen. I have chosen 4 from the DVD WS2 collection

Now switch to the layer manager We now need to resize the objects so that they are all the same dimensions, as you can see in the above example the

Select a group then click “Adjust” “resize” Now set the desired size of this frame and make a note of the width and height settings. Select each of

To place and align your 4 frames:- 1. Use the “Pick Tool” which is the top tool on the toolbar at the left side of the screen. Now click on the top

Table of contents. 1. Overview and reasons for creating your own DVD Menu’s 2. Importing existing assets into Photo Impact 11 3. Creating a new DV

Now to add some navigation buttons. I have chosen 4 from my DVD Imported Items Library and the WS2 Button category. Just drag them across to the sc

Use the text tool once again and now type a number alongside each FRAME. This will be the scene number when the menu is used by the authoring program.

Repeat this process until you have ungrouped all items. The final stage is to create a Thumbnail of our new Menu. Save your work at this point in

Naming Conventions Before you save this new menu you must name the various objects in a specific manner. The authoring program looks for various ite

Description Name Base -- No name -- Background Image IMG_BG /S1:00FFFF,10 /A1:0092C3,10 /CP1:S1,A1 Overlay Frame IMG_BG_FRAME Page Number OBJ_PAG

If it is not already selected then click the thumbnail at the bottom of the screen And then select the Layer Manager. Start at the bottom of the laye

Inserting your new menu into DVD Workshop 2 Workshop 2 is very flexible and so you can save your Menu anywhere you wish. To add it to the list of ava

Inserting your new menu into DVD Movie Factory 4 There are various versions of DVD movie Factory 4. To save the menu in your “Favourites Folder” nav

Inserting your new menu into Video Studio 9 Open the following file with Windows Notepad: C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead VideoStudio 9.0\Templa

Now create new folders for each of your custom categories: Then save you new DVD menu in the appropriate folder. I hope you find this tutorial use

Overview and reasons for creating your own DVD Menu’s DVDWS2, MF4 and VS9 are supplied with a number of ready made DVD Menus. DVDWS2 allows you to s

Importing existing assets into Photo Impact 11 The following section will take quite some time but it only has to be done once. I will now describe

And we will now “Create” a new Library. We need to create several groups to this Library with the Add/Remove button shown in the picture above as

(See right hand picture for full list)

Now we need to repeat the above process and create the following further Libraries WS2 None Scene Menu Corporate Education General Nature Romantic Sp

WS2 Frames Right click on WS2 Frames in the DVD Imported Items Library. Then select Add Image File as Thumbnail. And navigate as follows:

Highlight the first two columns Click the “Open” button and then import your assets one at a time You can if you wish name each item as it is im