DVDit Pro HD User's Guide Copyright and Disclaimer © Copyright 2006 Sonic Solutions. All rights reserved. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Sonic Solutions. Sonic Solutions assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this book. Except as permitted by such license, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Sonic Solutions. 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All other company or product names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 2 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 About the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chapter 2 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DVD authoring workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Blu-ray projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Examples of DVD projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 DVDit Pro HD windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Chapter 3 Creating projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Starting a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Setting the project's Disc Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The OpenDVD setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Changing the project settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Setting the DVD Jacket Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Editing MyDVD projects in DVDit Pro HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Chapter 4 Importing assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Importing files into DVDit Pro HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Importing DVD+VR content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Removing assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Changing a video asset's Field Dominance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Supported video files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Supported audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Supported image files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Creating buttons and menus in Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Compliant video and audio requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Choosing bit rates for video and audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 5 Creating and editing movie titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Creating movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Adding subtitle tracks to movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 3 Setting audio and subtitle languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Locking and unlocking tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Previewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Trimming movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Offsetting audio and subtitle tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Creating and editing chapter points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Chapter 6 Creating and editing slideshow titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Creating slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Removing slideshow images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Reordering slideshow images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Changing the slideshow duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Rotating slideshow images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Changing the transitions between slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Adding soundtracks to slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Removing slideshow soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Changing the slideshow Aspect Ratio and background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Archiving slideshow images on the DVD (DVD only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Chapter 7 Creating and editing menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Tools to help create menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Using menu templates to create menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Using individual elements to create menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Using layered Photoshop files to create menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Using audio in menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Setting menu durations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Editing menu subpictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Duplicating menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Chapter 8 Creating and editing links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Creating and editing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Naming titles, playlists, and menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Setting the First Play title, playlist, or menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Linking content to menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Reassigning menu button numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 4 Defining menu Button Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Setting menu button images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Animating button images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Setting buttons to Auto-activate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Forcing selection of a menu button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Setting title, playlist, and menu End Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Changing the Title and Menu button actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter 9 Testing playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Simulating playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Using the Simulation window controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Rendering motion menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Chapter 10 Finishing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Removing unwanted material from projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Burning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Writing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Writing disc images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Editing an OpenDVD disc or DVD Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Writing to a Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Chapter 11 Changing DVDit Pro HD's preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 General tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 File Control tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Edit tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Author tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Simulation tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Quality tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Appendix A Disc specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Recordable discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 DVD-ROM discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...