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