Sonic DVDit Pro 6 .rar
Keena Wiegert
So you want share your new production on DVDs, but you're not sure whichsoftware to use? Especially for enthusiasts and corporate users, thetemplate-driven "automated" approach used in consumer tools like SonicMyDVD and Ulead DVD MovieFactory can limit your ability to create acustom look and navigational flow. But more professional tools such as AppleDVD Studio Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, and Ulead DVD Workshop canrequire a significant investment in becoming proficient with all their features,which is a problem for occasional users who are not focused on DVD production.
Meanwhile, Sonic Solutions has taken another approach with the new SonicDVDit 6 and DVDit Pro 6, introduced in July 2005 for Windows XP (www.sonic.com/products/professional/dvdit).DVDit has been targeted especially to corporate users who wanted to createcustom DVDs without a lot of fuss, using a straightforward drag-and-dropinterface for assembling assets, designing menus, and laying out the navigation.DVDit 5 also included the bonus ability to import projects from the Sonic MyDVDconsumer application, offering a nice path for users to gain experience withautomated DVD creation and then move up to customized design.
The base Sonic DVDit 6 product (still at $299) has a significantly enhancedinterface and menu design capabilities. Then for $100 more, DVDit Pro 6 adds anarray of professional features, including multiple audio and subtitle tracks,associated navigation control, clip playlists, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, and promastering options for content protection. And there's more -- DVDit Pro 6 nowincludes the full version of Sonic eDVD 4 (available separately for$199), which you can use to create enhanced DVDs for computer playback, with Weblinks and local links to images, documents, animations, and more (the base DVDit6 includes eDVD LE for adding just Web links).
DVDit version 6 carries on the drag and drop interface of previous versions,but with a cleaner and less modal design -- instead of clicking on buttons toswitch between authoring steps, you can now just simply click on tabs in themain windows to access whatever elements you want. And you can reorganize thewindows and save them as workspace layouts.
In the Basic layout, you use the Project window to assemble your video clipTitles, create Menus, and build Playlists. As you edit, use the main Previewwindow to lay out your Menu and Title designs. Use the Palette window to accessmenu Templates, menu background Images, imported Media, menu Buttons, and Buttonframes.
The Project and Palette windows use a visual Thumbnail view to preview yourassets and DVD elements, though you can also switch to a Details view, with ahierarchical list of Menus and nested buttons, Titles and chapters, andPlaylists and movies. These are handy for quickly reviewing and accessing allthe different elements in your project.
DVDit can import most common video formats, including AVI, WMV, QuickTime,MPEG-1,-2,4, and Microsoft recorded TV (DVR-MS). It also can import projectsfrom MyDVD, as well as discs recorded on other platforms -- DVDs from MyDVD orDVDit in Sonic OpenDVD format, and DVDs recorded on set-top recorders in DVD+VRformat.
As in MyDVD, you also can import collections of images and create a videoslideshow from up to 999 pictures, with dynamic transitions. You also can buildan audio track from multiple songs, and then synchronize the slideshow to itslength.
In the Advanced layout, to further customize your project use the Attributeswindow to set Menu and Button properties. And use the Timeline window toassemble multiple tracks, with up to eight additional audio tracks and 32subtitle tracks per movie.
With multiple tracks, you can create multi-language discs, or includealternate soundtracks or commentary tracks. And you can add subtitles displayedover the video, as easily as clicking in the subtitle track and typing the textin the Edit Subtitles dialog.
And with playlists, you can re-use the same movies in multiple ways on asingle DVD. For example, you can have a Clip menu to select individual movies tobe played, and also have a Play All button to play through a list of them. Oryou can provide the option to play highlights, or selected movies -- includingjumping directly to a chapter within the movie.
With the new navigation options, you can create custom links from buttons tomenus and movies, including selecting a new audio or subtitle track for aCommentary button. You also can set the End Action for a movie to automaticallycontinue playing another movie, or return to a menu. Similarly, you can setmenus to be timed, so if no selection is made they will time out and move on tobegin playing a default movie.
For more control, you can set the routing of the buttons on the menu, tospecify the default button when you link to the menu and how the selection movesas you press the arrow buttons on the remote control. Now you can create hiddenbuttons that will jump to secret extra "Easter Egg" content on thedisc.
Finally, DVDit Pro 6 provides extensive control over MPEG video compressionoptions, can encode audio to Dolby Digital stereo. It can import and passthrough Dolby Digital 5.1 material, or you can use the separate Audio Transcoderadd-on for $599. And it provides professional mastering to DLT tape, includingCSS and Macrovision content protection options.
DVDit is targeted to people like video enthusiasts and corporate users whowant to have more control over customizing their DVDs, but need an accessibleapplication that they can pick up every now and then and just use, withoutinvesting significant time in becoming experts. The interface and menu designfeatures in DVDit 6 let you drag and drop your way to a clean DVD design, withall the elements visible and accessible in the tabbed windows and bigthumbnails. It's also a great step up from Sonic MyDVD, since you can importexisting MyDVD projects and OpenDVD discs to enhance their template-based look.
You also really should consider taking the step up to DVDit Pro 6, even ifyou don't need multiple audio tracks or subtitles. In particular, the playlistsand advanced navigation links really add tremendous flexibility in designingyour disc. And if you are at all interested in interactive discs, the additionof eDVD alone should close the deal.
DVDit Pro 6 has a wonderful extra bonus -- the full version of Sonic eDVD4 is included with the product for creating interactive DVDs (www.sonic.com/products/professional/edvd).Now you can play your DVD on a computer and have it display additionalinformation to extend the content -- Web links to online content, and also linksto almost any kind of other material stored on the disc itself -- Web pages,documents such as manuals and spreadsheets, Flash animations, audio and videoclips, and even executable programs
To use eDVD, first create your disc as usual using any authoring tool, andbuild the final DVD files to hard disk in the standard VIDEO_TS directorystructure. Then you run eDVD to add interactive links at chapter points in yourproduction -- to be displayed when the user clicks a menu button, or even whenjust playing along through the content. Finally, burn the result to DVD,including the original VIDEO_TS folder and the additional eDVD data and includedfiles.
When played back on a set-top player, the DVD plays as originally authored --the eDVD links are ignored, so you may want to include some screens to explainhow to play the enhanced disc. But when played on a computer, the DVD auto-runsthe InterActual Player application (player.interactual.com)to play back the disc and display the linked material (this needs more userintervention on the Mac). Other players including CyberLink PowerDVD and InterVideoWinDVD now support the eDVD links as well.
While you need to run the eDVD software on a Windows XP machine, theresulting discs are cross-platform, and can play on either Windows (98SE orabove) or Macintosh (OS 10.3 or higher) systems. If you burn the final disc on aMac, you even can include different executables for the two platforms.
Hello. I'm trying to convert a PAL SVCD to NTSC, but when I try to open the .mpg, I receive the following error message:
File can not open or unsupported. I have the latest version of TMPGenc.
The .mpg is working because I made a SVCD from it.
Any ideas on how to do convert this? TIA
when i stop a vcd when its playing in my dvd player im able to resume where i left off, but if i play a svcd and stop half way through i cant resume playback where i stoped it. any thoughts on how i can make my svcd compatable with the resume function? or is it just my dvd player?
I"m not totally sure but I think if you set chapters in your "mpeg2/svcd" file then it should stop at the chapter points when you press stop and resume from the closest chapter point..but I"m not sure I just use the pause button.....
I had a question about deinterlacing just recently and had trouble understanding the advance tab.The problem was that the advance tab's instructions to double click to open each filters menu was out of site below the main settings window. If anyone has the same problem just double click each filter and remember to check the box after you have selected the setting.Must admit I ended up with an excellent result for SVCD after a bit of experimenting.Good sofware even if the learning curve is a bit like climbing Mt. Everest for a novice.Without the forum, very difficult.
There have been a few posts in the past from people who have been unable to use TMPGenc output in Sonic ReelDVD, getting an error message saying the file was rejected for not being either 4:3 or 16:9.
I have never had a problem, until today when I accidentally tried to use ReelDVD with a program stream file (.mpg) and this error message appeared.
ReelDVD and possibly DVDiT only accept video streams (.m2v), so when encoding either click the "Video only" radio button under stream type, or if you have already encoded program streams, use the Demultiplex tool to recover the video stream.