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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

Adding files

1. In the Playlist tree, right-click BD-ROM or a folder and click Add File.

2. Browse to the file on your computer and click OK.

The file is listed in the tree.

Removing files

In the Playlist tree, right-click the file and click Remove File. Click Yes to confirm you want to remove the

file from the disc.

Adding folders

In the Playlist tree, right click BD-ROM and click Add Folder. The new folder is listed in the tree.

Removing folders

In the Playlist tree, right-click the folder and click Remove Folder. Click Yes to confirm you want to remove

the folder from the disc.

Renaming folders

Select the folder in the Playlist tree and perform one of the following actions:

n In the Control Panel, type a new name for the folder in the Name box.

n Press F2 and type a new name for the folder. Press Enter to save the new name.

Setting language properties

The Blu-ray Disc specification allows you to define different language settings for your disc's name, the

name of each title and chapter in your disc, and an onscreen display icon. Currently, only the Sony

PlayStation®3 supports the onscreen display icon, but other players will likely support this in the future. No

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