User Guide

60 Chapter 5, Creating Scenarios
About Scenarios
Scenarist projects are saved in documents called scenarios (.scn). Scenarios contain
information about the project’s assets (video, still images, audio, and subtitles), menu and
track properties, project layout (PGCs, links, and navigation commands), and disc
information and disc layout.
The default directory for saving scenarios is the My Scenarios folder, which is created on the
system hard drive when installing the Scenarist software.
Also saved with scenarios is a cache folder (<Project Name> Cache) that contains encoded
still images (.mps), encoded subpictures (.sp), and subtitle images (.bmp) created in
Scenarist. A scenario’s registered assets remain in their original hard drive locations.
Saving Scenarios
Unlike most software applications, Scenarist dynamically saves scenarios. Each time you
make a change to a project, it is saved to the scenario file. While this ensures that the
changes you make to a scenario are always retained, it requires that you use the Save As
command when revising scenarios that you don’t want to permanently overwrite.
For example, if you have a scenario in a satisfactory state and want to continue working
with it, while being able to return to that state, use the Save As command to save a new
version of the scenario under a different name.
My Scenarios folder