I know I should probably read the manual...but I haven't. One question...do my videos have to be rendered before I use DVDA? And, I'm guessing that I would have to make seperate "files" to be able to use the menu's?
thanks for any help
Depends on what you mean by rendered. DVDA will accept AVI files (as long as there's an appropriate codec installed to handle the content of the AVI) or MPEG-2 files as input; if you feed it an AVI file it will encode it.
Whether or not you need seperate files depends on what your project requirements are - a typical example of a single file with a menu would be a single movie with a scene selection menu.
Yes, you must give DVDA rendered video. However, you have a variety of options but I would stick with either DV-AVI or MPEG2.
I would render the whole project to a SINGLE file. Then you can easily set up chapter points as needed and then put those chapter points on your menu(s).