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Autoplay Menu Designer builds professional-looking autorun menus for CD-ROM, DVD, USB Flash drives. The user can create a project from scratch or use one of the 15 pre-built layouts, add graphics, buttons and interactive events to create an autorun menu with engaging look and simple navigation. The program allows one to create an unlimited number of pages for the menu and even embed several pages into one page.
To begin, the user needs to select a layout and configure project settings, such as project folder, output folder, window style, size, position and background, enable splash screen and localization support, if necessary. The next step is to add content to the menu. You can add shapes, polylines, text, cooltext, pictures, hot areas, embed RTF text viewer, Flash video, web browsers and media player. Each object can be assigned various interactivity events, so that users can interact with the menu and navigate through the content. For example, you can set a button to change its caption and play a sound when the user rolls the mouse over it and run an application, open a document or URL link when the button is clicked. To ensure the menu works as desired, the user can preview the project and make further changes, if necessary. When the menu is ready, the Build Project wizard helps the user to package the project for deployment on a CD-ROM. The output includes the standalone AutorunMenu player, resource files and autorun.dat. The final step is to burn the output to disk using Windows CD burning feature, or any other CD burning software.
Autoplay Menu Designer is ideal for building autorun CD menus for different purposes. As a software developer, for example, you can create a professional-looking software installation disk, tutorial or presentation and forward it to customers. Home users can create engaging photo galleries or DVD disks with video for their home collection or to be presented as a gift to a relative, friend, or colleague on different events.
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Editor review: Reviewer, 2009-10-09 07:49:00
While creating video or movie DVDs professionals have to give considerable time in generating eye-catchy and effective autoplay menu to ensure easy content accessibility for the end-users. However, the autoplay menu creation task consumes much time and effort and thus one should go for an easier mode and opt for Autoplay Menu Designer 3.4 software for the purpose. The program supports building professional autorun menus for your DVD, CD-ROM, USB Flash drives, etc. The user can either create the menus entirely by self or else use the pre-defined layouts provided as samples. When creating the menus you can insert graphics, events, buttons, text, etc to form autoplay menu providing eye-catchy appearance along with simple navigation. You can generate several pages for menu and even can embed various pages into a single page.
For creating the autoplay menu using Autoplay Menu Designer you’d have to create project that is loaded at the left panel for adding menu pages. Within a project you can add up different pages to make selection process easier for the end-users of DVD CD-ROM, etc. Along with this, you also have to define project settings like project folder, window style, background, position, splash screen, output folder, etc. Next, using the Properties Bar you can define name, position size, hide/lock object, flooding, gradient, font, alignment, opacity, margin, and various other ‘mouse over’ and ‘on click’, features. Moving on, you can add polylines, cooltext, images, hot areas, shapes, Flash video, media player, etc. You can assign different interactivity events to every object making it easy for users to navigate through content using the menu. Further, you can check the menu’s function with preview window and make necessary changes. After creating the menu, use Build Project wizard for packaging it for deployment over CD-ROM, with output including standalone AutorunMenu player, autorun.dat, and resource files. Now, you can burn the output to disk and view the menu finally working,
With the Autoplay Menu Designer software you can generate impressive and easily navigable autoplay menus for your DVD, USB flash drives, and CD-ROM. Considering its easy to use features and its overall remarkable performance, the program is rated with 4.5 points.
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