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Written and designed at Sonic Solutions, 101 Rowland Way, Novato, CA 94945, USA Contents 1 Introduction About the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sonic on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Installing DVD Producer Installation Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Step 1: Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Step 2: Installing the SD-1000 Encoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Step 3: Connecting the Stereo Audio I/O to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Step 4: Connecting Peripheral Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Step 5: Launching DVD Producer the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Removing DVD Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 Planning the Project DVD Producer Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 What Is a DVD Producer Project?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Calculating Bit Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Creating, Saving, and Opening Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4 Contents 4 Preparing Media Files Video Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audio Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphics Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Menu Graphics in Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Motion Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 46 47 51 55 5 Encoding Video and Audio Encoding Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Preparing to Encode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Encoding Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating and Editing Video and Audio Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Audio Encoding Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 6 Getting Media Files into DVD Producer Using the Palette Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deleting Files from the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Missing Media Files and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 81 82 82 7 Building the Project Structure The List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Movies and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting the First Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Menus and Movies in the List window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 85 87 89 8 Working with Menus How DVD Producer Creates Menus and Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The Menu Editor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Editing Menus with Floating Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Editing Photoshop-Created Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Editing Buttons, Graphics, and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Contents 5 Creating Button Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Adding, Replacing, and Deleting Menu Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Changing Menu Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 9 Working with Movies The Movie Timeline Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Editing the Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Creating and Editing Chapter Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Multiple Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Changing Audio Tracks in Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Importing Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Working with Subtitles in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Subtitles in Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Changing Movie Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Proofing the DVD Project DVD Producer's Playback Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Proofing the DVD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 11 Creating DVDs Choosing an Output Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Creating a DVD Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Creating a Disc Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Creating a DVD Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Creating a DVD Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Creating a DVD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 A Television Standards and DVD Regions What Is a Television Standard? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 NTSC Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 PAL Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 DVD Regions and TV Systems for All Countries/Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 6 Contents B Digital Compression Primer Four Factors of Digital Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Digital Video Storage Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factors Affecting Compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MPEG Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 193 193 195 203 C Audio Connector Wiring AES/EBU Digital Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Balanced Analog Inputs and Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Unbalanced Analog Inputs and Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Glossary Index 1 Introduction Welcome to DVD Producer, a professional DVD production system that integrates encoding, authoring, and disc creation into a single, easy-to-use application. DVD Producer takes MPEG video, graphics, and PCM, Dolby Digital and MPEG sound files, and helps you to quickly build stunning, professional DVD presentations. A bout the Do c u me n ta tio n DVD Producer includes the following documentation: ...