If you have text selected, this is where you choose fonts, sizes, justification, attributes, etc. An attributes area (think “inspector” or “properties” if you’re used to tools from other software publishers) shows you practically all of the important details about a particular asset, and allows you to control pretty much everything, including menu linking, button routing and end of play behavior. You can also import your own layered menus as PSD files and define the menu areas with DVDit Pro HD’s Highlight Tool. The right-hand side of the screen includes a palette of supplied templates, images for backgrounds, buttons and frames. Below that, a timeline allows you to manipulate your video, audio and subtitle tracks (and additional audio or subtitle tracks, if so desired). To the right, a preview window lets you manipulate your menus or see the current title. The project window contains lists of your menus, the video titles you’re using and the playlists you’ve defined in either thumbnail or tree view. The menu bar is arranged left-to-right in order of how you will be accessing the functions beneath (e.g., Timeline, DVD Menus, Simulate, Burn). The arrangement of the program in its default workspace (there are a few others to choose from) made immediate sense to us. m2t (MPEG-2 transport stream) files captured from a Sony HDR-FX7 HDV camcorder via Sony DVGate Plus that had to have their extensions changed to. The program is also finicky about file extensions – we had some. This is the one you want to use for bringing in your video clips. The File > Import > Media option seems a logical choice on the surface, but fails to bring in anything but still images. We found the process to bring assets into program a bit confusing at first. The program includes the ability to write the same project to both Blu-ray Disc and DVD – a very useful feature that has the potential to save you a lot of time (depending on the scope of your disc authoring project, of course). If you’re just going to Blu-ray Disc, this question will seem quite strange on the surface, but the reason the program asks has to do with one of the line items on the box. The first thing that the program asks when you start it is whether you want to create an NTSC or PAL project.
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