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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

Appendices

This section contains valuable references for working efficiently with DoStudio Authoring.

Basic Blu-ray Disc specification information for authors

Maximum bit rate

As with DVD, calculating the total bit rate of your Blu-ray Disc is of paramount importance. The following

table compares the maximum allowable bit rates for Blu-ray Disc and DVD respectively.

It is important to keep in mind that your primary video and secondary video tracks must mot exceed the

maximum video bit rate of 40.0 Mbps.

 Maximum video bit rate Maximum total bit rate

Blu-ray Disc 40.0 Mbps 48.0 Mbps

DVD 9.8 Mbps 10.08 Mbps

Primary video streams for 2D Blu-ray Disc

Frame size (pixels) Frame rate (Hz) Progressive/Interlace Aspect ratio

1920x1080 29.97 Interlace 16:9

25 Interlace

23.976 Progressive

24 Progressive

1280x720 59.94 Progressive 16:9

50 Progressive

23.976 Progressive

24 Progressive

720x480 29.97 Interlace 4:3 or 16:9

720x576 25 Interlace 4:3 or 16:9

Mandatory audio codecs for Blu-ray Disc

The Blu-ray Disc format adds quite a few new options for audio compression. The table below lists the

audio formats that are required for all Blu-ray Disc players, so your projects can make use of any or all of

these formats and play back successfully.

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