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We’re going to go through the normal process you’re likely to follow while
you create a disc, and once we’ve covered that, we’ll go into more detail on
what some of the advanced features will let you do.

Getting Started

You have a finished show, and you’re ready to make your disc. Your first
stop is to choose what kind of disc you want to make. Are you making a
standard show on DVD, so just about anyone can watch it? Perhaps you’re
making a HD show on Blu-ray to really show off your new HDTV. Decide
which you want to use, and then you’re ready to output your show.

Once you’ve decided which type of disc you’re going to make, it’s time to
configure the settings for the show. This is going to include things like
setting up your menu, adding other shows you want to include on the disc,
and making the final burn. In most cases, you won’t need to adjust any of
the advanced settings while you’re making a disc.

More often than not, you'll want to look at these common settings before
you burn your disc:

• Menu to arrange and create the menu that will appear on your
disc
• Shows to add any other shows to the final disc as well as add an
intro show
When you have all of your settings choices made, click on Create to start
the creation process.

The Creation Process
Once you hit Create, ProShow will start rendering your show and burning
that content to the disc. There are three operations that take place:

Rendering is the first step. During rendering, ProShow streams single
images of your show together into a video. Video is broken into a series of
frames, and the number of frames you need in a video is determined by a
term called Frames Per Second (FPS). Different video formats have different