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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

The following video codecs are supported by the Blu-ray Disc specification:

n MPEG-2 is the venerable codec that we have worked with in standard DVD for over a decade. There

are many reliable MPEG-2 encoders that can output a compliant HD stream. The downside of

MPEG-2 is that it is not nearly as efficient as VC-1 or AVC, so it requires higher data rates (and

larger file sizes) to achieve similar quality results. Most of the initial Blu-ray Disc releases were

MPEG-2; however, very few new Blu-ray Disc titles use this codec.

n SMPTE VC-1 is a new standard that is based on the Windows Media 9 codec from Microsoft. VC-1

is more efficient than MPEG-2 and can achieve high quality results in the 15 Mbps range.

n MPEG-4 AVC is the newest of the three codecs and is the most advanced. It is also the favored

codec for Blu-ray Disc. AVC encoded streams can often achieve the same quality of MPEG-2 at one

half the data rate.

Subtitling

DoStudio Authoring supports graphics-based subtitles for Blu-ray Disc. The subtitle files are a series of 8-bit

PNGs with an accompanying XML file in .dost format. Several tools export .dost directly. For more

information, see "Subtitles" on page 57.

Authoring

After creating your graphics and encoding your video, you are ready to author your Blu-ray Disc.

Disc setup

Disc setup involves specifying the BDCMF formatting requirements, disc and organization IDs, and other

details. For more information, see "Disc Information" on page 33.

Menu creation

Professional Blu-ray Disc titles feature pop-up menus that can float over the video playing in the

background. In DoStudio Authoring, you import your menu element graphics and use actions to assign

navigation interactivity such as showing and hiding various menus and playback behaviors such as playing

or pausing a chapter. For more information, see "Importing menu graphics in Mosaic" on page 77"Using

actions" on page 101.

Playlist setup

Setting up your Blu-ray Disc playlist is not unlike setting up your title and chapter structure for a DVD. Using

DoStudio Authoring, you import your primary video and audio elements and assign them to a title. If your

title has chapter points, you enter those as timecode numbers. For more information, see "Playlists" on page

63.

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