How to Create a DVD With Adobe Premier Elements

Once you have finished editing your movie, creating special effects and adding a soundtrack, you are ready to make a DVD. Adobe Premiere Elements includes a number of templates and themes to allow you to easily create a home DVD. The themes are conveniently located on the left MEDIA panel when you select the CREATE DVD tab.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 or later running on a MAC or PC
• A copy of an edited video for experimentation

1. 
   Create DVD Tab

   Open your completed video in Adobe Premier Elements. The movie will open in EDIT MOVIE mode. You will see your list of clips in the MEDIA PANEL on the left. Click on the tab entitled CREATE DVD.

2. 
   Select the Template

   Notice that the choices in the MEDIA PANEL have changed. The bottom folder in this mode is where the DVD templates are stored. Scroll through the templates until you find one that suits your subject. A (V) next to the template means that it is a video template. Other templates contain still images. In this case we chose the cartoon movie template. Double click on the template to make it appear in the center monitor window.

3. 
   Edit Main Title

   Click on the MAIN MENU to edit the text for the main menu you will see when the DVD starts. When you have edited you title, click on the SCENES MENU. The program will create a chapter for each clip on your MOVIE TIMELINE. You can change the title and arrange the text of your clips to fit the design.

4. 
   Change Title Text

   In the Monitor Window click on the text to change it and a text box will open allowing you to change the text. Notice on the properties panel you can change the font, color and type size to fit your need.

5. 
   Add Audio to Menu

   On the properties panel, you can select a different image or point in the movie to display as a thumbnail. You can also browse for music to use for you DVD titles pages. You can select separate music for your title page and different music for your chapters if you desire.

6. 
   Burn Menu

   When you have it the way you want, click on BURN. You can use this to burn the DVD to a disk or to burn it to a folder which you can later burn on a disk. You also select the location, burn more then one copy and select the quality level for your DVD.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure you have the correct media in your DVD drive prior to burning the DVD Speeds vary according to length and the speed of your burner. In any case, it will take a while.
• Don’t perform other tasks while burning, it may cause your computer to lock up or restart. Certainly you can spend a little time away from the screen.

Resources

• Adobe Premiere

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