For the opening clip: File - Properties - Introductory Media

Creating a menu should be obvious - just drag the clip to the menu that appears on the screen.

I have some information written about this in the Vegas Tips, Tricks, and Scripts Newsletter

Thanks for the tips. I'm very new at this and pouring over the manuals don't seem to be helping me, in fact, I got more confused the more I read.

As far as manuals go the DVD-A one isn't that great, so I understand.

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The very first thing you see when you start DVD-A is the default work area for the type of project you picked before. If this is your first project then you are asked to pick the type of project you want to make before you see anything else. To do that again click on file, then new. Assume you want to make a musical vid, (sort of) so pick musical compilation.

Since I've never done that myself, lets learn together.

OK, there are two gray areas, the first says no tracks to display, the second on the right says drag and drop files from the Media Explorer. OK, you should see the explorer window in the bottom fourth of the screen. If it isn't set to where you keep your music files, use the scroll bar at the left just like you do in Windows Explorer to locate where you do keep them.

Now you should see a bunch of files that are audio files. Example wav or MP3 files. Click on one and drag it then drop it on the right gray window. Hold your left mouse button to do that.

I just tired dragging a wav file. It enters the name in the left window and the title and play time in the right window.

If you right click on the little black rectangle then select set video image it lets you pick any image on your system. I did that. I now see that image in the left window and also a thumbnail in the right.

I'm now clicking the preview button. The song plays and the image I selected stays on screen the entire time while the song plays. I'm hitting close to get back to the menu. I picked another song and another image.

Again I'm hitting preview and just going to sit back and see what happens.

Fine. the first song played and the second started with no action on my part. So I'll assume you can just keep going and going adding one song/image have another. Once you got all you want on the DVD, click file, then make DVD.

To add a intro video, click on file properties, then pick a vid and audio file. You musical selecitons will start automatically after the intro plays.

To make a more traditional DVD, so it plays a movie or a series of movies with a menu system, see my tutorial here:

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm

Thanks BillyBoy. I'm actually making a performance DVD. Here's where I am now. I've rendered the main video. I'm trying to open the menu with a video clip. Here's my problem. I trimmed a 38 second clip. I'll explain how I did it so someone can identify any mistakes I'm making. I put markers at the beginning and end of the section I trimmed(sliding and highlighting the area to be trimmed) Edit then selected trim. I've got it looped and faded at each end. I saved it as a veg. I then rendered it and it came out to be 280MB in the "rendered" folder. When I import it to DVDA background image/video, it displays a 4.5GB file and lenght of 81 minutes(this is the lenght of the main video). Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.