From a basic navigation menu at the front end of your DVD to a fully animated and moving menu with web-links, video menus and slide shows, you can easily find the best authoring solutions for your CD or DVD content.

CD or DVD Copy protection is usually offered on top of CD/DVD authoring to provide copy protection for your CD or DVD content where necessary. Because it has become more and more important to protect a CD or DVD against copy, a lot of system have been developed to do so. When it comes to CD/DVD copy protection, Content Scrambling System can be used. Content Scrambling System is a data encryption and authentication method used to protect DVD movies from being illegally copied, distributed, and viewed from other devices, such as computer hard drives. It is actually one of several copy-protection methods currently used in today's DVDs.

Usually, the Content Scrambling System method encrypts the video files on a DVD to prevent illegal viewing or copying. In order to view any video files found on the DVD, the user must then use a hardware device that is CSS-licensed to decrypt, or decode, the data in the video file. One such hardware device is a DVD-ROM device that can be installed with a computer or a specially designed TV in order to view DVD movies. Another possible device could be the hard disk of a personal computer.

Strictly speaking, DVD authoring is a separate process from MPEG encoding, but most modern DVD authoring software have a built-in encoder. Most authoring applications are for video DVDs only; they do not support the creation of DVD-Audio discs.

Stand-alone DVD recorder units generally have basic authoring functions, though the creator of the DVD has little to no control over the layout of the DVD menus, which generally differ between models and brands.