Opposite track path (OTP) The data track for the rst layer (Layer 0) is written
from the disc center towards the outer edge, then the second layer (Layer 1) is written back towards the disc center.
Parallel track path (PTP) The data tracks for both layers are written from the disc
center towards the outer edge. The point where the DVD player stops reading Layer 0 and starts reading Layer 1 is called the layer break. There is always a short pause in the material at this point. Opposite track path is best for projects containing a large movie title that spans both layers, where the layer break must fall within the movie. This option provides the shortest interruption in playback. This is the default setting. Parallel track path is better for projects containing several smaller titles, since the layer break does not fall within a title and therefore the viewer will not notice it.
To change the track path setting:
1 Set the projects disc size to DVD-9 as described in Setting the disc type and project size on page 36. 2 Choose File > Project Settings. The Project Settings dialog box appears. 3 Click the Volume tab. 4 Choose the desired setting from the Track Path list. 5 Click the OK button.

Setting DVD region codes

The DVD Forum Committee divides the world into six DVD regions (16), and species one transnational region (8) for such applications as in-ight entertainment. Region 7 is currently undened. Most commercially released movie DVDs contain one or more region codes. Every DVD player should play a region-coded DVD only if one of its codes matches a code embedded in the player. By default, projects created in DVDit Pro are coded to allow playback in all regions. You can set a projects region codes to allow playback in one or a few regions. See TV standards and DVD regions by country/territory on page 196 for the region code for a particular country or territory.
To set the projects region codes:
1 Choose File > Project Settings. The Project Settings dialog box appears. 2 Click the Protection tab. 3 Deselect the checkboxes for the regions where you do not want the disc to be playable. At least one region must be selected. To re-select all the checkboxes, click the Enable All button. 4 Click the OK button.

Adding copy protection

If your project contains copyrighted material, you can use copy protection to protect the intellectual property rights of the materials owner, as well as the rights of the discs publisher. The following copy protection schemes are available in DVDit Pro: Copy Guard Management System (CGMS) limits the number of digital and analog copies that can be made. Copy Scrambling System (CSS) encrypts the data to prevent digital copying. Macrovision prevents analog copying. CGMS is simply a ag that is added to the video stream when you burn a disc or write to DLT. However, many DVD players do not respect the CGMS ag. CSS and Macrovision are applied by the disc replicator. For that reason, you can only use CSS and Macrovision when writing to DLT. You must obtain licensing rights to use Macrovision. For more information, contact your disc replicator or Macrovision (http://www.macrovision.com).

The video bit-rate affects both the video quality and the amount of video you can t on a disc. High bit-rate video produces a higher-quality image and requires more disc space than lower bit-rate video. There are several factors to consider when choosing a bit-rate:
Disc size Larger disc capacities let you t more video onto the disc or use higher

bit-rates.

Type of video If your video has fast action sequences, or scenes with random
motion such as ripples on water, a low bit-rate may result in poor-quality video during those scenes.
Source video quality MPEG compression works best with a high-quality source. If the original video is low quality if it has video noise, scratches, and so on you should either clean it up in a video editing application or choose a high bitrate to prevent the quality from getting worse. Slideshow and ROM data requirements Slideshow source les and ROM data
leave less space available for video. Finally, the maximum bit-rate allowed by the DVD-Video format is 9.8 Mbps, which must be divided among the video, audio, and subtitle streams. Although DVD players play only one audio stream and one subtitle stream at a time, they read all the streams off the disc simultaneously, so you must take the bit-rates of all streams into account when calculating the bit-rate. The following can help you to select the best bit-rate for a given video duration: CBR or VBR? on page 74 Bit-rate calculation on page 74

CBR or VBR?

CBR (constant bit-rate) and VBR (variable bit-rate) are two ways of encoding video. CBR encoding uses the same bit-rate for every second of video regardless of the videos complexity, so quality worsens as the video becomes more complex, and bits are wasted when there is not much action. In a VBR encode, the encoder uses higher bit-rates for complex sections and lower rates for easy sections, constantly adjusting to keep the overall bit-rate to a target value. VBR encoding can provide the same quality as a CBR encode but at a lower overall bit-rate (so you can t more video on the disc), or better quality than a CBR encode at the same overall bit-rate. VBR encoding is best for long video durations (100 minutes or more on a 4.7-GB disc). For shorter durations the difference in quality between CBR and VBR is usually not detectable.

Bit-rate calculation

The following calculation helps you to pick an MPEG-2 video bit-rate based on total video duration. Enter the values produced by this calculation into the Transcode tab elds in the Project Settings dialog box (see Changing the transcoder settings on page 38). Note: DVDit Pros transcoder bit-rates are displayed in kilobits per second (kbps). To make the numbers manageable, the calculation below uses megabits per second (Mbps). When entering the results of this calculation in the transcoder settings, multiply by 1,000 to get the value in kbps.

To hide a layer:

Choose View > View Background Layer, View Subpicture Layer, or View Highlight Layer, depending on which layer you want to hide.
118 Chapter 7, Creating and Editing Menus
U s i ng m enu templates to cre a t e me n u s
The fastest way to create menus is to use the templates that are provided with DVDit Pro. A menu template is a complete menu design, including background, buttons, text blocks, and optional audio track. It also includes attributes such as drop shadow settings.
To create a menu using a template:
1 Click the Templates tab in the Palette window. 2 Drag a template onto the Drag media here to create menu icon in the Project windows Menus group. DVDit Pro builds the menu on the Preview windows Menu tab. Every element in this menu can be edited as described in Using individual elements to create menus on page 119.
To replace an existing menu with a template:
1 Click the Templates tab in the Palette window. 2 Do one of the following: Drag a template onto the menus icon in the Project window. Drag a template onto the menu displayed on the Preview windows Menu tab. Replacing a menu with a template completely erases the original menu, including any button links to other content.
Using individual elements to create menus 119
U s ing i nd ividual elements t o c r e a t e me n u s
This section describes how to create menus using separate image, video, and text elements. It includes: Choosing the menu background on page 119 Adding menu objects on page 123 Editing menu objects on page 126 Applying drop shadow and glow effects to menus on page 134
Choosing the menu background
DVDit Pro lets you create menus using still images, video clips, or a single background color. Any menu can also have a background audio track. If you use a video clip that includes audio (a program stream), the audio automatically becomes the menus background track. Otherwise, you must add the audio separately; see Using audio in menus on page 140 for instructions.
To create a menu using an image or video:
1 Click the appropriate tab in the Palette window. To use a still image, click the Images tab. To use a video clip, click the Media tab.
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2 Drag an image/video le onto the Drag media here to create menu icon in the Project windows Menus group.
This creates a new menu icon in the Menus group. The image or rst video frame appears on the Preview windows Menu tab. To control how DVDit Pro scales the image/video to t the menu, see Scaling of non-4:3 images and video on page 121. See also: Adjusting menu background colors on page 122 Setting menu durations on page 141

To replace an existing audio track:
Drag a different audio asset onto the menus icon in the Project window.
Setting menu durations 141

Fading the audio

To fade the audio at the beginning or end of a menu:
1 Click the menus icon in the Project window. The Attributes window displays the menus attributes. 2 On the Attributes windows General tab, select the Fade In checkbox to fade the audio in at the start of the menu. Select the Fade Out checkbox to fade the audio out when the menu ends.

Removing menu audio

To remove the audio track from a menu:
1 Click the menus icon in the Project window. The Attributes window displays the menus attributes. 2 In the Audio section of the Attributes windows General tab, choose None selected from the File list. Note: Removing the audio from a timed still menu turns it back into an innite still menu.
Set t i ng menu durations
Menus with a background video or an audio track time out, after a set duration. By default, menus with a still background and no audio display indenitely. You can give still menus a set duration, and trim the beginning and end of menus that have a video background or audio track.
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When a menu with a set duration ends, its end action dictates what happens next. By default, the menu loops until the viewer activates a button link, but you can change a menus end action to link to any other content in the project. See Setting title, playlist, and menu end actions on page 163 for details.
To change a still menus duration:
1 Click the menus icon in the Project window. The Attributes window displays the menus attributes. 2 On the Attributes windows General tab, use the Display options to change the menu duration: To make a still menu time out, choose Timed Still from the Type list. The menus duration is set to 30 seconds automatically. To change the duration of a timed still menu with no audio, drag the Duration slider or enter a time value in the Duration box. The minimum duration is 30 seconds; the maximum is almost 13 hours.

148 Chapter 8, Creating and Editing Links
For this section, its best to display the Details view in the Project window so that you can see all linkable items. Right-click on the Project window and choose View > Details from the shortcut menu.
C r e a t i ng and editing playlists
Playlists provide an excellent way to link a projects titles together in different sequences. A playlist simply instructs the DVD player to play a selection of titles in a particular order. The instructions can specify which chapter or slide to start from in each title, and which audio or subtitle tracks to play. Because playlists are simply sets of rules, they take up almost no disc space. A popular use for playlists is in discs that contain several episodes of a TV series. The discs author creates a play all menu button that links to a playlist containing all the episodes. The author also creates button links to each title, with different instructions controlling what happens after the title nishes. Another use might be to provide several different combinations of routines on an exercise DVD.

To create a playlist:

1 Choose File > Add Playlist. The Edit Playlist window appears. The Sources column lists all the titles in the project. 2 Double-click a title in the Sources column to add it to the Playlist column. 3 Change the titles Item Properties if desired:
Start Chapter/Picture To begin playing the title from a particular chapter
point or image, choose the chapter/image from this list.
Set Audio Stream To force a particular audio track to be heard, choose from this list. This setting overrides the viewers language preference.
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Set Subtitle Stream To force a particular subtitle track to be displayed, or to force subtitles off, choose from this list. This setting overrides the viewers preferences.
4 Continue adding titles to the list and order them as desired: To change the playlist order, click a title in the Playlist column, then click the up or down arrow buttons. To remove a title from the playlist, click it, then click the X button. 5 When youre nished, click the OK button. The new playlists icon appears in the Project windows Playlists group.

To edit a playlist:

1 Double-click the playlists icon in the Project window. The Edit Playlist window appears. 2 Add, remove, and rearrange the titles in the Playlist column as desired. 3 Set the Item Properties for individual titles as desired. 4 Click the OK button.
N aming t itles, playlists, a n d me n u s
As you create titles, playlists, and menus, DVDit Pro gives each new item a sequentially-numbered label. For example, movie titles are labeled Movie 1, Movie 2, and so on. If you give these items more informative names, you can quickly identify the item you want when creating links. This is especially useful in large, complex projects. You rename titles, playlists and menus in the Project window.

To edit an OpenDVD disc/volume:
1 If you are editing a disc, insert the disc in a DVD-ROM drive or DVD recorder (if a software player launches, close it before continuing). If you want to edit a rewritable disc and then burn the edited project back onto the original disc, insert the disc into your DVD recorder. Do not remove the disc from the recorder until you have burned the edited project back onto it. 2 In DVDit Pro, choose File > Edit DVD. The Browse For Folder dialog box appears. 3 Select the disc you inserted, or select the DVD volume folder you want to edit, then click the OK button. DVDit Pros windows become populated with the disc or volumes contents and assets. 4 Edit the project as described in the rest of this document. When you have nished, choose Burn > Burn DVD. The Write Disc dialog box appears. The options available depend on the kind of disc you are editing: If you are editing a DVD+RW disc that was originally created in DVDit Pro, and the disc is in your DVD recorder, the Update current disc option should be selected.
178 Chapter 10, Finishing the Project
The Create a hard disk backup rst option should also be selected. This forces DVDit Pro to back up the original les from the disc to your PCs hard drive in case anything goes wrong while DVDit Pro is updating the disc. We recommend that you leave this option selected. If you are editing any other kind of disc, the Create new disc option is selected. 5 If the Create new disc option is selected, you can change the disc recording options:
disc support. If you experience problems with discs burned at this speed, choose a lower speed. 6 Click the OK button. DVDit Pro copies the disc contents to your PC, then either updates the existing disc or burns a new disc.

Wri t i ng to DLT

You can write DLTs from the current project, or from a DVD volume, disc image le, or any folder of data les. Most replicators require DLTs for disc replication (although some now accept recordable DVDs). You have more control over the replication with DLT than with recordable DVD. In addition to the data that will go on the disc, a DLT contains a disc descriptor protocol (DDP) report that contains information about the disc. You can save a copy of this report on your PC.

1.4 GB

1.3 GB
These write-once discs work with many set-top players and DVD-ROM drives. Double-sided 4.7-GB discs are available, providing 9.4 GB of ofcial disc space. A DVD-Video project ts on one side of a disc, so to use both sides you must create two separate projects. There are two competing R formats: DVDR and DVD+R. Both formats provide the same level of compatibility with set-top players and DVD-ROM drives, but many DVD recorders support only one format. There are also two forms of DVD-R: General discs and Authoring discs. General discs can be used only in consumer DVD recorders. Authoring discs can be used only in professional recorders and cost much more than General discs. When buying discs, make sure to get the kind that your recorder supports. 3.95-GB Authoring discs seem to be more compatible with older DVD players, but are becoming rare. 8.4-GB dual-layer discs are just becoming available. Make sure your recorder supports these discs before buying them. 1.4-GB discs are designed for use in DVD camcorders but also work in other DVD recorders.

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Ofcial disc size (see Note)

4.7 GB

36,096 Mbits 10,752 Mbits

DVD RW

4.38 GB
The rewritable version of DVD R. There are two competing RW formats: DVD-RW and DVD+RW. When buying discs, make sure you get the type that your recorder supports. These discs are compatible with fewer DVDROM drives and set-top players than DVD-R or DVD+R discs. Their main advantage is that they can be overwritten about 1,000 times, so you can use them for testing, or update the project later without having to use a new disc. These discs were originally designed for data storage rather than DVD-Video. They can be played only in PC DVD-RAM drives and in a few DVD-ROM drives and set-top players. Discs can be single- or double-sided. A DVD project ts on one side; to use both sides you must create two separate projects. DVD-RAM discs can be overwritten about 100,000 times.

DVDRAM

36,096 Mbits per side 19,968 Mbits per side 10,752 Mbits per side

2.6 GB per side

2.42 GB per side

1.4 GB per side

1.3 GB per side
Note: The ofcial DVD disc sizes are confusing because they do not follow the conventions used for other digital media. In the DVD world, 1 Gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 (109) bytes, whereas in the computer world, 1 Gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes. Therefore a 4.7-GB DVD contains less data than a 4.7GB hard disk.
194 Appendix A, Disc Specications

D V D -RO M discs

Type Format Disc size (less 4% for headroom)

64,512 Mbits per side

DVD-18

Double-sided, dual-layer

Requires two DVDit Pro projects. Set both projects disc sizes to DVD-9 (8.5 GB). Requires two DVDit Pro projects. Set side As project disc size to DVD-9 (8.5 GB). Set side Bs project disc size to DVD-5 (4.7 GB). Requires two DVDit Pro projects. Set both projects disc sizes to DVD-5 (4.7 GB). Set DVDit Pros project disc size to DVD-9 (8.5 GB). Set DVDit Pros project disc size to DVD-5 (4.7 GB). Set DVDit Pros project disc size to DVD-RAM (1.4 GB). Double-sided discs require two projects. Some replicators can create dual-layer 8-centimeter DVDROM discs, but DVDit Pro does not support this format.

DVD-14

A side dual-layer B side single-layer
A side: 64,512 Mbits B side: 36,096 Mbits

DVD-10

Double-sided, single-layer

36,096 Mbits per side

Single-sided, dual-layer Single-sided, single-layer Single-sided, single-layer Double-sided, single-layer

64,512 Mbits

36,096 Mbits

8-centimeter DVD-ROM

10,752 Mbits per side
B TV Standards and DVD Regions
Different countries use different standards for broadcast TV. The United States, Japan and a few other countries use the NTSC standard; the rest of the world uses PAL (or SECAM, which is very similar to PAL). NTSC set-top DVD players usually cannot play PAL-format discs, whereas most PAL set-top players and all software players can play both formats. A DVD can contain either NTSC or PAL video, but not both. The DVD-Video format does not support SECAM, so DVD players in SECAM countries play PAL-format discs and transcode the signal to SECAM. The rst time you run DVDit Pro, it uses your Windows Location setting to decide whether you are in an NTSC or PAL/SECAM country. It then defaults to the appropriate standard when you create a new project. (You set the Windows location on the Regional Options tab in the Regional and Language Options control panel see Windows Help for instructions.) Please note that once you have created a project, you cannot change the projects TV standard. For a list of the TV standards used in different counties and territories, see TV standards and DVD regions by country/territory on page 196.

196 Appendix B,TV Standards and DVD Regions
T V st andard s and DVD region s b y c o u n t r y / t e r r i t o r y
The following table lists for each country/territory, the correct TV standard to choose when creating a project, and the associated DVD region code (see Setting DVD region codes on page 43 for more information about region codes). We provide this information in good faith and believe it to be correct, but we cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions. Ofcial standards sometimes change (for example, many countries are moving from SECAM to PAL), new broadcasters may use different standards, and people often receive broadcasts from outside their country. We recommend that you always check which TV standard is used in the target countries before you begin a project.

Country/territory

Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan

TV standard

PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC NTSC NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM

DVD region

Not applicable 5
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Azores

PAL/SECAM NTSC is used on US military bases NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM
Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands
198 Appendix B,TV Standards and DVD Regions
Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China, Peoples Republic of Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of (formerly Zaire) Congo, Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador
PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM PAL/SECAM NTSC NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC PAL/SECAM NTSC

4 00:12:05:01 00:12:05:19 First text line|next text line

is the same as:

4 00:12:05:01 00:12:05:19 First text line next text line
If you want a | to be displayed instead of being interpreted as a carriage return, place a backslash in front, like this: \|

Font commands

Using the font commands, you can set the typeface and some formatting for the entire script and for individual subtitles. If you import a script that does not contain font commands into DVDit Pro, the imported subtitles use the Text settings that you last specied in DVDit Pros Edit Subtitles window. Each font command must be inserted on its own line before the subtitle strings to which it applies. The following font commands are supported: $FontName = [name of a font face] sets the typeface. $FontSize = [number] sets the text size in points. $Bold = TRUE/FALSE turns bold on or off. $Italic = TRUE/FALSE turns italic on or off. $Underlined = TRUE/FALSE turns underlined on or off.
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For example:

$FontName = Arial $FontSize = 16 $Bold = FALSE $Italic = FALSE $Underlined = FALSE 1 00:02:17:12 00:02:23:21 This text is 16-pt Arial $Bold = TRUE 2 00:02:27:02 00:02:35:18 And this is 16-pt Arial, Bold $Bold = FALSE $FontSize = 00:03:12:14 00:03:22:10 Back to plain Arial, but 20-pt.
The following text formatting cannot be controlled in the subtitle script and must be set in DVDit Pro: Text alignment All caps on/off Outline Text color

Position commands

The position commands control the subtitle text blocks position on screen. You can set the position for the entire script and for individual subtitles. If you import a script that does not contain position commands into DVDit Pro, the imported subtitles are placed at the position that you last specied in DVDit Pros Edit Subtitles window.
224 Appendix E, Subtitle Script Files
Each position command must be inserted on its own line before the subtitle strings to which it applies. The following position commands are supported: $HorzAlign = LEFT/CENTER/RIGHT/FALSE sets the text blocks horizontal position. The LEFT and RIGHT settings align the block to the left and right Text Safe guides, respectively. The FALSE setting means that the pixel-based position commands will be used instead. $VertAlign = TOP/CENTER/BOTTOM/FALSE sets the text blocks vertical position. The TOP and BOTTOM settings align the block to the top and bottom Text Safe guides, respectively.The FALSE setting means that the pixel-based position commands will be used instead. $LeftPosition = [number] sets the distance in pixels from the left edge of the screen to the left side of the text block. $RightPosition = [number] sets the distance in pixels from the left edge of the screen to the right side of the text block. $TopPosition = [number] sets the distance in pixels from the top edge of the screen to the top of the text block. $BottomPosition = [number] sets the distance in pixels from the top edge of the screen to the bottom of the text block. For example:

GOP Group of Pictures. A unit of MPEG video, the GOP is a block of video
frames of different types. Every GOP begins with an I-picture, followed by a repeating pattern of P-pictures and B-pictures. For example:
I B B P B B P B B P B B P B B P I B B P. ^ ^ Start of GOP Start of next GOP
In MPEG-2 video, the I-, B-, and P-pictures can contain either frames or elds. In MPEG-1 video, they contain only frames. The I-picture contains all the image information for a single frame or eld, and is thus only moderately compressed. B-pictures and P-pictures contain only information that is different from the previous or next frame/eld, and reference the nearest I-picture for the remaining information. This means they are much more highly compressed than I-pictures.
GOP size The number of frames or elds in a group of pictures (GOP).
For example, a GOP size of 10 looks like this if the I-, B-, and P-pictures contain whole frames:

I B B P B B P B B P

and like this if the I-, B-, and P-pictures contain elds:
I P B B B B P P B B B B P P B B B B P P
GOP structure The number of B-pictures before each P-picture in a group of
pictures. Typical GOP structures are I B P (one B-picture) and I B B P (two Bpictures).
Hz Hertz. Cycles per second. A unit of measurement for frequencies.

Glossary 235

IFO le One of the les on a DVD-Video disc. The IFO le contains instructions
that tell the DVD player how to play the VOB les on the disc. Because the disc could become unplayable if the IFO le is damaged, a backup copy with the extension.BUP is always included in a separate location on the disc.
interlaced scanning A method for displaying an analog video signal on a TV screen. This method was developed because video images icker when displayed on TVs at 25 or 29.97 frames per second each frame fades away before the next one appears.
To prevent ickering, each video frame is divided into two elds. One eld contains all the odd-numbered scan lines in the frame (the top eld); the other contains all the even-numbered scan lines (the bottom eld). The TV displays one eld (one set of lines), followed by the next, at 59.94 elds per second for NTSC or 50 elds per second for PAL. At these frequencies, human persistence of vision causes the elds to be perceived as a single image. Compare with progressive scanning.

I-picture Intra-picture. An MPEG video picture that contains all the information
necessary to create a single frame or eld. Every GOP in an MPEG video stream starts with an I-picture, which provides a reference point for the B-pictures and P-pictures in the GOP.
jacket picture A picture that shows the discs rst play menu/title. The jacket
picture is displayed onscreen when the disc is stopped in a player that supports the jacket picture format.
JPEG A lossy compressed bitmap graphics format developed by the Joint
Photographic Experts Group. Files have the extension.jpg or.jpeg.
k Standard abbreviation for kilo (thousand). Used as a prex in units of
measurement such as kbps (kilobits per second) and kHz (kilohertz).
K Standard abbreviation for 1,024 (210). Used as a prex in measurements of

computer bytes.

KB Kilobyte. 1,024 (210) bytes.

236 Glossary

kbps Kilobits (1,000 bits) per second. A unit of measurement for bit-rates. kHz Kilohertz. 1,000 cycles per second. A unit of measurement for frequencies. letterbox A method for displaying widescreen (16:9) material on a standard (4:3)
TV screen. The entire image is displayed in its proper aspect ratio across the center of the screen. Horizontal black bars (mattes) are added to the top and bottom of the image to ll the gaps between the image and the top and bottom edges of the screen. Compare with pan and scan.
lossless Refers to compression methods that do not throw away any data. lossy Refers to compression methods that involve throwing away some data to
achieve very high compression levels.
M Standard abbreviation for mega (million). When used in units of measurement
such as bits or Hertz, it means one million (1,000,000 or 106). When used for measuring bytes of computer data, it means 1,048,576 or 220.
MB Megabyte. 1,048,576 (220) bytes. A unit of measurement for computer data. Mbps Megabits (1,000,000 bits) per second. A unit of measurement for bit-rates. menu A screen containing buttons that link to specic locations in a DVD-Video
presentation. The viewer activates buttons to display the linked material.
MHz Megahertz. 1,000,000 cycles per second. A unit of measurement for

frequencies.

motion menu A DVD menu that has a video background and/or animated button

images.

movie A title containing a single video clip. It may also have audio and subtitle
tracks. A movie can contain up to 99 chapter points.
MPEG A set of standards for compressing video and audio, developed by the
Moving Pictures Expert Group. The DVD-Video standard is based on MPEG-2 video compression; the standard also permits the use of MPEG-1 video. Other MPEG formats include MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio and MPEG-4 video. These are not part of the DVD standards.

opacity menu buttons and text 132 menu subpictures 143 movie subtitles 89 OpenDVD discs creating 37 editing 177 opening MyDVD projects 46 opposite track path 42 overture 150
PAL default setting 183 Palette window 21

Index 251

creating 34 creating disc images from 176 creating DLTs from 178 creating DVD volumes from 175 default menu 165 deleting assets 52 DVD-ROM 40 examples 13 first play 150 importing asset files 50 importing DVD+VR content 52 MyDVD 46 project file 238 saving transcoded files 184 workflow 12 PSD images 57
chapter points 104 menu audio 141 menu button links 154 menu buttons and text 133 movie video and audio 78 playlist items 148 slideshow audio 113 slideshow images 107 subtitles 90 renaming chapter points 102 menus, titles, and playlists 149 reordering menu button numbers 154 playlist items 148 slideshow images 107 replacing menu audio 140 movie video and audio 78 reset warning dialogs 183 resizing buttons 128 ROM data files 40 rotating menu buttons and text 131 slideshow images 110
Quality preferences 189 QuickTime requirements 8 QuickTime video 54
RAM 8 recent files list 183 re-encoding video and audio 38 region codes 43 by country/territory 196 remote control 170 button mapping 165 removing assets 52
safe area 116 sample assets 183 sample rate 69 saturation control for buttons and text 132 for menu background 122

252 Index

saving movie frames as images 94 transcoded files 184 secondary audio program (SAP) 80 sequence header 69 shadow effect 134 Simulation preferences 188 Simulation window 170 sizing menu buttons and text 128 slideshows adding audio 111 adding to playlists 148 archiving image files 114 changing aspect ratio 113 changing background color 113 default setting 185 changing duration 108 default setting 185 choosing transition 110 default setting 185 creating 106 deleting 174 first play 150 linking to menu buttons 151 naming 149 removing audio 113 removing images 107 reordering images 107 rotating images 110 setting end action 163 snap 117 software requirements 8
sound card 8 subpictures choosing 153 default setting 186 color settings 143 replacing 138 setting start point 145 subtitle scripts importing 85 subtitles adding to movies 84 changing duration 86 choosing duration default setting 185 color sets 89 deleting 86, 90 editing 86 language 90 language code extension 91 locking 92 previewing 92 trimming 94 supported audio file formats 56 supported image file formats 57 supported video file formats 54

PRODUCT INFORMATION BULLETIN DVR-S201 Operating With Sonics DVDit

Bulletin # 273805

Background When operating the Pioneer DVR-S201 DVD Recordable drive with Sonic Solutions DVDit, initially the program may fail to recognize the drive. However, the Windows operating system sees the DVR-S201 and the customer is able to burn discs using the bundled Prassi software. The following instructions apply only if the customer is using an Adaptec controller.
Details To force the DVDit program to see the drive, follow the instructions below. 1) 2) Go the following website: http://www.adaptec.com/support/files/upgrades.html Download two files to your hard drive: * ASPICHK.EXE checks for type of controller, correct files and possible conflicts * ASPI32.EXE updates files if using an Adaptec controller Launch ASPICHK.EXE to check status Verify that the controller is an Adaptec and that there are no conflicts Launch ASPI32.EXE to update files

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For other controller brands, please contact Pioneer New Media Technical Support at 310/952-2111.
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