No doubt that DVD menu is one of the most useful functions of all commercial DVDs. It helps you to easily navigate through the contents of a DVD and find the place that you need in no time. Now you can make this option available for all your home DVDs as well. Create a menu for any home DVD using AVS Video ReMaker and enjoy it!

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Click here to download it. After the download is finished, run the AVSVideoReMaker.exe file and follow the installation wizard instructions.

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After you launch the program, select your video using the Add File(s) button. In the opened Windows Explorer Window browse for the necessary folder containing video files.

Note: AVS Video ReMaker processes all files without recompressing them. Since the Create DVD Menu option is available only for DVD movies, you can use the files of MPEG or DVD formats as input files. If you wish to create a DVD menu for a file of some other type (AVI, WMV etc), please use AVS Video Converter to convert it to DVD and create a menu for the resulting file.

Note: if your input is a DVD disc, you will need to select the path to your source file: X:\Video_TS\Video_TS.IFO. "X" stands for your DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive folder where your DVD is stored.

It is important to select the IFO file, rather than VOB file, because the IFO file contains the information about the entire DVD structure and this way you will avoid audio and video de-synch problems when converting. Also, most DVDs have several VOB files (files with actual video) and if you convert VOBs instead of IFO, you will have to merge them afterwards, which is not the case with the IFO files.

When the video is loaded, you can manage it using the Delete File and Delete All Files buttons to remove the video from the program and Add File(s) button to add more video files to AVS Video ReMaker.

Note, that in case you add several different video files to the program all of them must have the same parameters - video resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate and bitrate.

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The movie will be split into chapters automatically as you import it into the program to preserve the original DVD menu. Each marker on the timeline corresponds to the beginning of a new chapter. Switch to the Create DVD Menu area by pressing the corresponding button in the left part of AVS Video ReMaker main window. The list of chapters is displayed in the DVD Chapters field.

You can manage the chapters list in the following way:

• Preserve the original DVD menu (no need to do anything in this case as the chapters list is already created by default). In case you accidentally deleted all chapters from the list, you can easlily restore them by pressing Add>> Add Chapters from Source.

• Delete some chapters from the chapters list. To do that, find the chapter you wish to delete in the chapters list, select it with the mouse and press the Remove button.

• Create your own chapters list. To do that, first clear the original chapters list by pressing the Clear button, next create your own chapters: left-click within the timeline area to set a marker in the position where you wish the chapter to begin, next press the Add button. The new chapter will appear in the DVD Chapters field. Perform the same procedure to create all chapters.

• Add chapters automatically. Switch to the Detect Scenes mode, detect moments of scenes changes and go Add>> Add Chapters from the Scenes List. If you select this option, the number of DVD chapters will correspond to the number of scenes detected. Go Add>> Add Chapters at interval to automatically add chapters at a fixed interval of time (1,2,5,10,15,20 minutes).

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You can use one of the default DVD menu presets from the DVD Menu Style list. Press the little arrow next to the DVD Menu Style field to display the list of available presets and select one of them. The menu will be displayed in the DVD menu window. All chapters are organized in groups of 6, each group is displayed in a separate window. Switch between the Main Menu and Chapters 1, Chapters 2, Chapters 3 tabs to view the complete chapters list.

If you would like to create you own menu, press the Customize button. AVS DVD Menu Editor program will be opened as you press it. This application will help you to perform the following actions:

1. Place any image in the background of your DVD menu. To do that, click the Image0 icon in the Layers area, next press the Load Image button and browse for the necessary image file. The same action can be done within AVS Video ReMaker interface. Press the Change Background button and browse for the necessary image file to do that.

2. Load additional images as a background. Click the Image Tool icon from the Tool Panel on the left, next browse for the necessary image file. The image will be displayed in the Layers area as Image1 by default. Right-click it and select Rename from the drop-down menu if you would like to rename the file.

You can also adjust the boundaries of the imported image. To do that, click the image in the Layers area, make sure that the Select Tool is activated in the Tools Panel (click it) on the left and drag the boundary lines (clicking the black rectangles) to change the image size.

3. Change the text in the Play Chapters buttons. To do that, click the corresponding item in the Buttons area, make sure that the Text option is selected in the Contents Type area, next right-click within the DVD menu window, select Edit Text from the drop down menu, and type in your own text.

When you finish, click the Exit button to close AVS DVD Menu Editor. The program will ask you whether you wish to save the changes you have made. Select Save as to save the created menu as a separate preset. It will appear as a new preset in the DVD Menu Style field after you save it so that you will be able to use it in future.

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When all is ready, click the Remake now! button to open the Save File window:

Here you can select the output file Name, destination Path and set video Format to DVD as you created a menu.

The Burn movie to disc after processing option will be available. When it is enabled, the AVS Video ReMaker will record the resulting files onto an optical disc using the internal burn engine. After that you will need to press the Start button and will see the deletion progress on the progress bar. It will take some time depending on the file length and your computer configuration.

Insert a blank DVD into your computer optical disc drive. Make sure that the disc is compatible with your drive.

AVS Video Burner application will be launched to guide you through the burning process so that you could record your converted video onto a disc.

You can select the necessary disc drive if you have several, refresh it and mark the Verify disc check-box to make sure the disc is recorded correctly.

Now click the Start burning! button to begin the recording. Note, that if the disc is not empty you will be offered to erase it. If you do not want to do that, you can eject the disc and use another one instead.

After the burning is over the disc will be ejected automatically. Note, if you checked the Verify disc, the recording will take a little longer depending on the size of the output files as the program will need time to verify them.

Now your DVD video is ready to be watched using your home DVD player or personal computer!

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