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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

Subtitle properties

For more information about recommended subtitle procedures, see "Recommended subtitle procedures" on

page 182.

Item Description

Name The name of the subtitle track in DoStudio Authoring.

Language You can select the language display for the subtitle track using the

Language list. This will display the language on screen or on the Blu-

ray Disc player front panel display if the player supports this feature.

Full Screen Images If your subtitle .png files are 1920 x 1080, select Yes in the Full

Screen Images list.

If your subtitle .png files are smaller than 1920 x 1080 and their

position is set in the .dost file, select No in the Full Screen Images list.

Subtitle Track # The subtitle track number. (Display only.)

Crop Subtitles Crop your full-screen subtitle images to only the size needed. For

more information, see "Cropping subtitles" on page 60.

Subtitle File The file path and name of the subtitle file. Click the Browse button to

choose a different file.

Cropping subtitles

If you have full-screen 1920 x 1080 subtitle .png files, you can use the Crop Subtitles button in the Control

Panel to crop the image files to only the size needed and modify the .dost file to use the new coordinates.

Cropping your subtitles will save time when you compile your disc.

1. Select a subtitle element in the Playlist tree to display its properties in the Control Panel.

2. Click the Crop Subtitles button.

The DSASubtitle Converter window is displayed with your .dost file in the Source DOST box.

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