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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

For more information about importing chapter markers from Final Cut Pro, see "Playlists" on page 63.

Recommended subtitle procedures

We recommend the following subtitle procedures based on the size of your subtitle images and whether

there are gaps in the subtitle sequence. For more information, see "Subtitle properties" on page 60.

Case 1: The subtitles are full-raster images and there are no sequences without

gaps

In this case we recommend using the Crop Subtitles tool and setting Full screen images to No. If cropping

is not done and Full screen images is set to Yes you will still be able to compile the project, but multiplexing

will require more time to prepare the subtitles.

Case 2: The subtitles are full-raster images and there are sequences without gaps

In this case we recommend using the Crop Subtitles tool and setting Full screen images to No.

DoStudio Authoring will crop the subtitles to a common size, which is required for gap-less sequences.

Case 3: The subtitles are cropped to their minimum size and there are no

sequences without gaps

In this case we recommend not using the Crop Subtitles tool and setting Full screen images to No.

Case 4: The subtitles are cropped to their minimum size and there are sequences

without gaps

Unfortunately, DoStudio Authoring will not be able to use these subtitles without gaps because the subtitles

are already cropped to their minimum size. You can set Full screen images to Yes, but that will eliminate

the gap-less sequences by trimming the duration of the events without gaps. We recommend in this case to

request the same subtitle stream but with full-raster images and follow the steps outlined in case 2.

Case 5: The subtitles are cropped to a common size and there are no sequences

without gaps

In this case we recommend not using the Crop Subtitles tool and setting Full screen images to No.

Case 6: The subtitles are cropped to a common size and there are sequences

without gaps

In this case we recommend not using the Crop Subtitles tool and setting Full screen images to No.

Keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts can help streamline your work in DoStudio Authoring. The available

keyboard shortcuts are arranged in tables according to function.

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