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Table Of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
- Technical support
- Glossary
- Product philosophy
DoStudio Authoring basics
- Menu elements
- The image buffer
- Actions
- Playlist tree elements
Authoring workflow
- Planning your disc
- Graphics creation
- Video and audio encoding
- Subtitling
- Authoring
- Emulation/testing
- Formatting
The DoStudio Authoring workspace
- The Playlist window
- The Menu Elements window
- The Layout Editor window
- The Layout Preview window
- The Control Panel
- The Validation window
- Layouts
Working with projects
- Asset management
- Creating projects
- Saving and exporting projects
- Disc Information
- Adding files and folders to your Blu-ray Disc
- Setting language properties
Audio/video segments
- Adding, deleting, and editing segments
- Adding primary audio/video streams to segments
- Adding secondary audio/video streams (PiP)
- Adding multichannel LPCM files to your project
- Adding slideshow segments
Subtitles
- Creating subtitle files
- Adding subtitle tracks
- Subtitle properties
- Cropping subtitles
Playlists
- Creating playlists
- Playlist properties
- The playlist timeline
- Playlist Start and End events
- Disabling user operations
- Path items and chapters
Blu-ray Disc titles
- Configuring the loading screen
- Specifying the First Play and Top Menu titles
Importing menu graphics in Mosaic
- Naming conventions for .psd file layers
- Adding a .psd file to Mosaic
- Working with the Mosaic interface
- Importing menu elements into DoStudio Authoring
- Reimporting a Photoshop file
- Mosaic Action Script
Menu element properties
- Menu block properties
- Set properties
- Button properties
Using actions
- Assigning and removing actions
- Menu block animation actions
- Button association actions
- Display menu actions
- Display button actions
- Title playback actions
- Blu-ray only actions
- Subtitle actions
- Primary audio/video actions
- Secondary audio/video actions
- Sound effect actions
- System actions
- Intellidisc actions
- Animation actions
Advanced authoring
- Using conditions
- Advanced parameters (APRMs)
BD Touch and second screen media
- Specifying a disc title and skin file
- Adding audio files
- Adding video files
- Adding image files
- Adding web links
- Removing second screen media items
HDMV authoring
- Using HDMV Menus
- Using the Movie Object Editor
- Setting up a BD Title that references movie object numbers
- Setting up a play-only HDMV title
- Blu-ray Title Setup tab
- HDMV navigation commands
DoStudio 3D Authoring Module
- 3D terminology
- Setting up 3D segments and playlists
- Completing the 3D disc
- 3D metadata offset file (.ds3d)
BDJO Module
Compiling, burning, and formatting your disc
- Compiling your Blu-ray Disc
- Burning a Blu-ray Disc
- Using ImgBurn
- Formatting your Blu-ray Disc for replication
Appendices
- Basic Blu-ray Disc specification information for authors
- AACS for independent producers
- Exporting chapter markers from Vegas Pro
- Exporting chapter markers from Final Cut Pro
- Recommended subtitle procedures
- Keyboard shortcuts
Index

Actions

Actions are another unique feature of DoStudio Authoring. Actions are functions that create the interactive

functionality of your Blu-ray Disc. Some sample actions are: Play Chapter, Show Menu, Play Sound, and

many more. Actions are assigned in the Action Editor, which is found in the Control Panel when you have

selected an element that is able to receive an action. For more information, see "Using actions" on page

101.

Actions can be assigned to the following elements in your project:

n Menu Navigation Buttons (Enter, Up, Down, Left, Right)

n Menu Block Events (On Show, On Hide) and Menu Button Events (On Show)

n Remote Control Buttons (Play, Pause, Pop Up Menu, Rewind, Fast Forward, Red Button, Green

Button, Blue Button, Yellow Button)

n Title Start

n Title End

n Chapter Start

Actions do not apply to DSAEXEdition projects. For more information, see "Creating projects" on page

31.

Playlist tree elements

The Playlist tree elements determine how the video is laid out on your Blu-ray Disc.

Audio/video segments

Your audio, video, and subtitle assets are added to your project as audio/video segments. Each segment

can contain 1 elementary video stream (2D or 3D), up to 9 audio tracks, and up to 32 subtitle tracks. You

can add up to 999 audio/video segments to your project.

2D segments can also contain up to 8 one secondary video tracks (used for picture-in-picture effects) and

up to 8 secondary audio tracks. A 3D segment uses two video files, a base view and a dependent view.

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