 Does Sonic still support the Macintosh-based DVD-Audio solution?
No. Even though all DVD-Audio titles available today were produced using DVD Creator AV for Macintosh, Sonic has discontinued support for the DVD-Audio portion of DVD Creator AV (although DVD Creator continues to be our flagship DVD-Video authoring system for Macintosh). The new DVD-Audio Creator for Windows solution is a complete and user-friendly system, and does not require the use of hand scripting to perform repetitive tasks such as slideshow and stillshow authoring. As a result, DVD-Audio title production with DVD-Audio Creator is over three times as fast for a typical hybrid DVD-Audio/DVD-Video title.
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Where can I find more information on DVD-Audio?
Sonic has a comprehensive overview of DVD-Audio in the technical info section of the Web site, and a white paper is also available online. |
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Which DVD-Video authoring systems can I use to author the VIDEO_TS for a hybrid DVD-Audio/DVD-Video title?
Sonic Scenarist, DVD Creator and DVD Fusion for Macintosh are the only commercially available DVD-Video authoring systems that may be used to author a VIDEO_TS for a hybrid DVD-Audio/DVD-Video title. All other commercially available systems use an 'abstraction' layer in their authoring environments. This is a layer between the user interface and the DVD-Video specification that stops the author being able to have complete control of every parameter of the DVD-Video specification. Since a DVD-Audio VIDEO_TS requires tight control of the specification, there is no way to produce a compliant DVD-Audio VIDEO_TS with such systems, and therefore they cannot be used.
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| Technical Specifications |
DVD Authoring Features
- Full suite of applications for import, authoring, multiplexing and imaging of hybrid DVD-Audio/DVD-Video titles
- Icon-based storyboard authoring with dynamic properties window
- Integrated VIDEO_TS verification on import
- Cut-and-paste function for menu commands
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DVD-Audio Specification Support
- 9 groups
- 99 tracks per group
- 99 indexes per track
- 99 slideshows
- 99 slides per slideshow
- 32,767 Audio Manager PGCs
- Automatic return to Audio Manager menu from tracks
- Sequential and browsable slideshow modes
- Linked-Lyric slideshow mode
- Infinite or timed stills and menus
- Full DVD-Audio command-set programming
- Pre- and post-command editing for Audio Manager menus
- Access to all 16 GPRMs
- PGC Block for audio stream switching
- Digital copy protection with CPPM
- DVD-5 and DVD-9 formatting
- All 21 Channel Group assignments
- Automatic Simple Audio Manager generation
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Video Format Support for VIDEO_TS
- NTSC: 29.97 fps (525 lines, 60 Hz)
- PAL: 25 fps (625 lines, 50 Hz)
- MPEG-2 (ISO-13818-2) Main Profile and Main Level
- MPEG-2 resolutions: 720 x 480, 720 x 576, 352 x 480, 352 x 576
- MPEG-1 (ISO-11172-2)
- MPEG-1 resolutions: 352 x 240, 352 x 280
- DVD-compliant bit streams
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Audio Format Support
- MLP, LPCM, WAV and AIFF audio streams
- 44.1 kHz - 192 kHz sample frequency
- 16 - 24 bit depth
- Dolby Digital, MPEG-1 Layer II and DTS compressed format (in VIDEO_TS)
- Fully adjustable downmix parameters
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Output Options
- DVD-R for QC
- DLT for replication
- Local hard disk
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