To create a link using drag-and-drop:

•

Click the clip in the Movie Window that you want to link to, and drag it onto a button in the Clip properties tool preview area. The button is linked to the first frame of the clip. Or,

• Click the button for which you want to create a link, and drag it onto a clip in the Movie Window. In this case you are linking to the point within the clip at which you “drop” the button – generally not the first frame.

The Disc menu tool

If you open this tool while a menu is selected, it is equivalent to opening the Clip properties tool; otherwise, it provides a Create Menu button that takes you into the Classic Title Editor to begin the process of creating a new disc menu. (See “Editing with the Clip properties tool”, page 230, and Chapter 12: The

Classic Title Editor .)

Because developing a menu is a relatively intricate operation, Studio takes the opportunity to remind you that pre-built menus are available in the Album.

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CHAPTER 12:

The Classic Title Editor

Studio’s built-in Classic Title Editor is a powerful facility for creating and editing titles and other graphics. Its extensive suite of text and image effects and tools provides endless possibilities for the visual design of your movie.

Creating a title in the Classic Title Editor tool. The large area containing the picture and the text is the

Edit Window, while the panel occupying most of the right-hand side is the Classic Title Editor Album.

Other controls are in clusters around the Edit

Window.

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The Classic Title Editor is not limited to creating passive titles. For disc projects, you can also add and edit the special buttons needed for handling viewer interaction with the menus of VCD, S-VCD, DVD and

Blu-ray Disc movies.

Note: Studio Ultimate includes a second title-editing tool, the Motion Titler, with animation capabilities not found in the Classic Title Editor. The Classic Title

Editor also has some features the Motion Titler does not, however, including the ability to create navigable disc menus as well as titles.

Launching the Classic Title Editor

Reflecting the versatility of the Classic Title Editor is the variety of ways of accessing it from Studio’s Edit mode, using either one of the tools in the Video toolbox

(see page 104) or a mouse command on one of the

Timeline tracks (see page 96).

• To create a full-screen title or menu: Select Go to

Classic Title/Menu Editor from the right-button context menu in the main Timeline video track.

• To create a title from the toolbox: Open the Create title tool and click Classic Title Overlay or Full

Screen Classic Title .

• To create a disc menu from the toolbox: Open the

Create disc menu tool and click Create Menu .

• To edit a full-screen classic title: Double-click the title in any Movie Window view, or right-click the title and select Go to Classic Title/Menu Editor .