CyberLink PowerProducer

With the aid of specialized applications, you can create video and movie DVDs with title menus. When you load a bought movie DVD and see its menus, you may notice that your own menus are not as good as you thought. If you want Hollywood-style menus on your DVDs, you should try CyberLink PowerProducer. It comes with a good number of HD menu templates and you can download more from the Internet. The software also provides various tools for burning video DVDs and Blu-ray discs, copy or erase discs, save image files and more.

A computer with mid-range hardware should be sufficient to meet CyberLink PowerProducer's system requirements. The program can be used on Windows XP (SP3 is recommended) or any later edition, up to Windows 8. It takes several minutes to complete the installation procedure, but you don't have to make any complex configurations along the way.

The user interface has a sleek and elegant design and getting used to its functions should not take long. You can start producing a movie disc, send video directories to a DVD or Blu-ray disc, edit recently burnt contents and access various disc utilities, after selecting the appropriate options on the home screen.

Movie discs can be created with the aid of a wizard. Besides video CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, you can also produce AVCHD and AVCREC discs. After selecting a video format, you can import video files and photos or start capturing a video in DVD format. You can also edit individual video clips, chapters and a commercial cut, which is played in the menu. The software allows you to choose from a wide variety of animated menu templates, on which you can move, resize and edit titles or options.

Configuring the menu and its contents is an easy and straightforward procedure, but you may spend a lot of time until you proceed to the next stage, because the available templates will definitely impress you. When you are done configuring and admiring the menu, you can make the final settings, to burn your contents on a disc, save them in a folder or export them as an image file.