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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

BD is the official acronym for Blu-ray Disc. At times in this manual we spell out Blu-ray Disc, at other times

we use the acronym.

BD-Live

BD-Live™ is the rather catchy name given to the Internet capabilities of the Blu-ray Disc format. BD-Live

allows you to play games with others online, download content and use social networking sites to name a

few oft-cited examples.

BD-R/-RE

Throughout this manual we often refer to BD-R/-RE when discussing burning a disc. BD-R is the name for

the writable Blu-ray Disc format. BD-RE is the name for the rewritable Blu-ray Disc format. All Blu-ray Disc

burners support both BD-R and BD-RE. There is no functional difference between the two formats. The

obvious difference is that BD-Rs can be used only once, whereas a BD-RE can be reused multiple times.

Considering that the cost of rewritable media is still relatively high, we recommend using BD-RE for burning

and testing your discs.

DSA

DSA stands for DoStudio Authoring, which is the Blu-ray Disc authoring tool that is about to enable you to

efficiently create professional Blu-ray Disc menus.

Gaps

Subtitle sequences can have gaps or no gaps.

n A subtitle sequence with gaps means the out time of the first subtitle and the in time of the second

subtitle are different.

n A subtitle sequence with no gaps means the out time of the first subtitle and the in time of the

second subtitle are the same.

For more information about how gaps affect the subtitles in your project, see "Creating subtitle files" on

page 57.

Multiplexing/muxing

Multiplexing and muxing are different words for the same operation. In this manual they are used

interchangeably. Multiplexing is the process of converting your project's elementary audio and video

streams into the file types and structure that are readable by a Blu-ray Disc player.

Pop-up menu

A pop-up menu is a feature found on all professional Blu-ray Disc titles. Unlike DVDs, which require you to

interrupt the video in order to access the menu, the Blu-ray Disc format allows you to display your menu

over the video stream while it is still playing. creates pop-up menus with ease.

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