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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 Menu Elements window is not available for DSAEXEdition projects. For more information, see

"Creating projects" on page 31.

You can reorder the elements in the tree view using drag-and-drop actions. The top button in a set is

considered the default button. This is important because in a few instances, the default button will be

highlighted when a menu is displayed during playback.

Adding a menu block

1. Click the Add button and click Add Menu Block.

The Add Menu Block window is displayed.

2. Click the option for the type of menu block you want to create:

n Click the Select a background image for the Main Menu Block option to create a menu

block with a background image. Click the Browse button to select an image from your

project folder.

The background image determines the size of the menu block.

n Click the Create a Transparent Menu Block option to create a transparent menu block. You

can edit the size of a transparent menu block later.

3. Click OK.

A new menu block is added and its properties are displayed in the Control Panel. For more

information, see "Menu element properties" on page 95.

Adding a set

1. Select a menu block.

2. Click the Add button and click Add Set.

The Add Set to Menu window is displayed.

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