Using Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore, you can create two main types of DVDs or Blu-ray discs: auto-play without menus or menu-based. In the Export To Encore dialog box, choose Direct Burn Without Menus for the first, and Author With Menus for the second.

Auto‑play

Begins playing when the disc is inserted into a disc or Blu-ray Disc player. Auto‑play discs work best for short movies, or movies that you want to play continuously in loop playback mode. Auto‑play discs contain no menus. Viewers of auto-play discs can skip forward or back through chapter points you’ve placed in the movie using the Next and Previous buttons on a player’s remote control.

Menu‑based

Displays a submenu of scenes that you specify with markers. These discs are best for long movies meant to be played from start to finish, but that also might contain scenes the viewer could access from a submenu. From the main menu, the viewer can choose to play the movie or go to a scene selection submenu.