Blu-ray Disc Authoring

Detailed Access to the Blu-ray Disc Specification - Comprehensive and direct access to every aspect of the Blu-ray Disc specification including video titles, navigation commands, and the full compliment of GPR registers.

Comprehensive HDMV (Movie Mode) Specification Support - Support for 999 movie objects, 9 video angles, 32 button states per button group, 256 button groups per page, 1001 titles, 2000 playlists, and 4096 GPR registers.

Drag-and-drop BD-J Advanced Interactivity Creation - Integrate Advanced Interactive BD-J content into your BD-ROM projects. The BD-J specification offers the creative professional a greater range of interactive possibilities by enabling interactive Java applications to be seamlessly presented over video, without disrupting the playback flow of the underlying material. Scenarist is the only tool available with a drag-and-drop BD-J design environment, taking the hassle out of BD-J programming.

Support For All Next-Generation Video Codecs - Comprehensive support for all three of the approved Blu-ray Disc video codecs - AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2.

Comprehensive Support for Interactive and Presentation Graphics - Create pop-up menus, multi-page menus, and dynamic interactive content with interactive graphics. Use 8-bit images or fonts and text files for subtitles using presentation graphics.

Built-in Interactive Graphics Effects Editor - Easily animate all your interactive graphics including palettes, positioning, and cropping using Scenarist's built-in interactive graphics editor.

Out-of-mux Interactive Graphics Support - Create always available pop-up menus and special features by utilizing out-of-mux interactive graphics.

Animated Buttons - Bring HDMV menus to life with animated buttons in normal, selected, and activated states.

Button Effects and Sounds - Create compelling transitions and dynamic menus with in- and out-effects and button sounds.

Multi-Angle Video Support - Create dynamic presentations with the full specification allowance of nine simultaneous video streams.

Slideshow Support - High definition browseable or timed slideshows with un-interrupted audio.

AACS Content Protection Support - Secure your Blu-ray Disc titles with next-generation AACS Content Protection.

Built-in Blu-ray Disc Emulator - Simulate your projects as you author and QC completed images using Scenarist's built-in simulation and emulation tool.

Scenarist Designer PS Photoshop^® Plug-in - The ultimate menu creation workflow. Design, layout, and quickly export your menu and button designs from Photoshop directly to Scenarist.

Network-ready Distributed Multiplexing - Scenarist's multiplexing engine that allows multiplexing tasks to be distributed across facility networks. Sharing multiplexing tasks across a network decreasing multiplexing times and enables workgroup flexibility.

SD DVD Authoring

All-in-one Workstations - Sonic Scenarist integrates the entire DVD production process by combining encoding with unrivaled authoring power and tried and tested DVD formatting to produce a workflow so powerful and refined, no other tape-to-disc solution comes close.

Integrated Dolby^® Digital Transcoding - Transcode Dolby Digital audio files directly from PCM audio files within Scenarist.

Timeline Interface - Scenarist's timeline interface provides a familiar environment for any authors used to Non-Linear Editing. Scenarist's timeline enables drag-and-drop stream editing, chapter point placement and subtitle editing.

Adobe^® Photoshop^® Layer Support - Create layered DVD menus in Adobe Photoshop that contain background and button layers and import them directly into Scenarist for quick and easy menu creation.

Cell-level Access to the DVD Specification - Scenarist provides the most detailed access and control over the DVD specification to enable you to control every aspect of DVD playback for your title. With access to all 16 GPRM registers and unparalleled navigation and command sequence generation, Scenarist is the choice of feature film and high-end interactive programmers who want the ultimate in power, control and compatibility for their DVD title creation business.

Advanced Copy-and-Paste - Copy-and-Paste anything: Menus and Movies, Menu Buttons, Menu Properties, and Pre-, Post-, and Cell-commands.

Import and Export Video Title Sets - Expand your facility and create a productive and efficient Scenarist workgroup. The Import and Export Video Title Set feature enables specialist DVD authors to work on separate parts of a DVD title. Sub-sections are then compiled into a single project for polishing and finishing, prior to replication.

Professional Template Management - Save projects as templates at any stage of the authoring process. Create project templates with asset place holders for episodic box sets. No other authoring system can match Scenarist's templating capabilities.

Subpicture Effects - Add fade, wipe, and scroll effects to any menu subpicture or movie subtitle.

Video Angles with Audio/Subtitle Switching - Change audio and subtitle streams simultaneously with the video angle and "hide" streams depending on which video angle is being viewed. No other authoring software provides this capability.

DTS^® Audio Support - Add DTS Audio to your titles.

PlantDirect^™ Tapeless Premastering - No more DLTs! Deliver your DVD masters, via a secure network connection, directly to your replicator. Saves time, expense, and enables you to work closer to your project deadlines.

Jacket Picture Support - Add a screensaver to your DVD titles that displays whenever the set top player is in Stop mode.

Text Data - Add text data to your title for chapter and title display on the set top player's display.

Copy Protection - Scenarist's Copy Generation Management System supports CSS (digital) and APS (analog) Copy Protection.

Region Coding - Protect the distribution of your finished titles with region coding protection.

DVD-Video/DVD-ROM Hybrid Support - Author interactive DVD-Video titles with a DVD-ROM zone and add extra multimedia content.