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DVD Authoring: An Introduction
DVD Authoring is the process of collecting various content
assets such as video, audio, photographs, subtitles, and menus,
connecting them together and burning them to a master dvd
disc.
The assets themselves are generated in a variety of
applications such as video editing, post-production, image
editing and subtitling. They are then compiled in a DVD authoring
application such as Ulead DVD Movie Factory on the PC or DVD
Studio Pro on the Mac. The process of authoring is very much like
building a website. The menu screen on a DVD is analgous to the
homepage of a website in that it contains links to all the
content on the DVD.
Menu screens usually link to the main feature, chapters within
the feature, additional scenes not contained in the feature,
photographic slideshows, and additional audio content. The main
menu screen can also contain links to sub- menus, which helps
avoid cluttering the main menu with too many options.
In addition to setting up menu selections on the main menu,
the DVD authoring application allows the producer to set-up
additional features such as subtitles. Within the authoring
application, each item is given the metaphor of a container. A
container can hold any type of supported content and is linked to
a menu selection, either on the main menu or a sub-menu.
DVD authoring applications also usually support the creation
of multi-angle content (where viewers can decide to watch a
different passage of video with the same soundtrack and
subtitles) and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound
Using this method it is very easy for even a comparitive
novice to create a fairly sophisticated DVD disc with most of the
features found on a commercial disc. Indeed the biggest challenge
for the prospective DVD author is the aesthetic design itself.
Getting all the bits to work properly is one thing, but making it
look good and intuitive to use is another.
Once the content of the disc has been laid out in the
authoring application, it is then previewed to make sure
everything works properly. It is then 'multiplexed' (the content
is linked together) and the master disc can be burned.
It's worth noting that the affordable DVD writers and
authoring applications only support writing to DVD for General
media which doesn't have the necessary lead-in tracks required by
mass duplicators. Therefore this type os solution is not really
suitable for producing DVDs which need to be mass-duplicated.
Robert Armstrong is a contributor to The HDTV Tuner - a guide to
the kit, the content and the issues related to HDTV.
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