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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

Failed to Create Interactive Layer

This message indicates an authoring error in your project. The most common cause of this error message is

faulty setup of a condition or APRM. An empty conditional property or an APRM with no value will cause

this error. It can also occur due to a faulty subtitle file. When this occurs, it is best to check for incomplete

authoring properties. If you can not determine the problem, please submit a support request. For more

information, see "Technical support" on page 7.

Verifying your compiled disc image

To view your compiled disc image, open your BDMV folder using ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre.

Alternatively, you can open the Disc folder that is created when you compile and drag the BDMV folder to

the TotalMedia Theatre icon on your desktop.

Burning a Blu-ray Disc

When you have successfully compiled your project, you can burn a BD-R/RE from DoStudio Authoring if

you have installed ImgBurn.

1. In the Compile window, select your Blu-ray Disc drive in the Burn to list.

2. Click Burn to open ImgBurn with UDF 2.50 selected. This is the format required for Blu-ray Disc

burning.

For more information, see "Using ImgBurn" on page 171.

Using ImgBurn

In order to play your discs on a set-top player, you will need to burn a disc. DoStudio Authoring does not

include direct burning capability at this time, so you will need to use a third party burning tool. This section

describes how to burn a BD-R/-RE with ImgBurn, a popular freeware burning tool. You can download

ImgBurn from its official website at http://www.imgburn.com/. You can also use a commercial burning

application such as Nero Burning ROM or Corel's Burn.Now (included with the consumer-oriented Movie

Factory suite).

Regardless of the burning tool you use, you will need to compile your disc in DoStudio Authoring and then

burn the contents of the Disc folder as UDF 2.5.

BD-Rs are write-once media (the DVD analogy is a DVD-R or DVD+R). BD-REs are rewritable Blu-ray Disc™

media (like DVD-RW). BD-Rs are still rather expensive, so we recommend buying a few BD-REs for testing.

They are quick to erase and are reliable for many hundreds of sessions.

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