Authoring is basically the process of organising the video and it's accessability on the DVD.

You may not want your movie to play straight away but would prefer to have a menu at the start, as you would find with a purchased Hollywood DVD movie.

The main menu appears when the DVD is inserted and from here you could decide if you want to play the movie from the start or go directly to a chosen scene via a chapters menu.

There can also be other options so you could navigate to included music or picture files.

The style of the menus is ultimately up to you you could have a picture or movie clip of your choice or we can design one for you to suit whatever theme you desire.

The 3 images below are screen shots of the menus that were created for a wedding video customer.

On the actual DVD the background of the main menu and the thumbnails of the chapter menu consist of video clips from the DVD rather than still images. They also include audio that was selected for the wedding.