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Video and Audio File Dialog:
Here you can add subtitles, chapter marks and (for elementary video
streams) additional audio files. For audio files and subtitles (within
the Subtitle format dialog) the language may also be selected. The
language can be set for ready muxed material too, but you must know
which stream (number) has what language within the mpg file. You may
also 'exchange' the video file. WARNING: This will
reset all other entries (Audio,
Subtitle, Chapters...).
If you have elementary mpeg2 material, you may shrink it to a
given size. See: Notes on shrinking
This dialog is automatically started if you add a video file with drag
and drop. It may be 'restarted' with either:
- Double click on the created button ('Filmbutton') and select 'Load
Video + Audio files dialog'
- If the created button ('Filmbutton') is selected, you can choose
'Video properties' from the menu under 'Format'
- Right
click on the
icon (first node
below FilmXX) in the project explorer.
1. Videofile
Some characteristics (size, aspect...) of the video are shown here. In
addition it is checked if a ready muxed mpg stream contains 'Navigation
Packs' (Mux OK=Yes). Without the navigation packs dvdauthor
can't handle the file.
Elementary streams are muxed with the necessary navigation packs (by
mplex with - f 8 option).
Elementary video files are accepted in the formats: mpv, m1v and m2v.
Ready muxed mpg streams are accepted only if they are named mpg or vob.
With MuxMan as authoring engine
only elementary mpeg2 video files are
accepted.
If you want to use shrink, enter either the new size or the
factor
(as % of the original size) and activate: Use Requant to shrink
afterwards. Remark: For several videos you may also use the 'Auto
calculate Shrink' function in the menu under Start.
See also: Source material
and Notes
on shrinking
2. Audiofiles
The languages for the audio streams are set here (languages
for subtitles in the subtitles format dialog).
Elementary audio files are accepted in the formats: mp2, ac3 and dts
(with MuxMan also wav)
Some information about the audio files is given in the
'Infoline'
If the audio has another sampling frequency than 48 kHz (not allowed
for DVDs), this line turns red.
The different audio streams may be selected with the remote of your DVD
player (or the correspondent menu item in a soft player - for Media
Player Classic i.e. with Navigate - Audio Language), or you can create
a special audio menu.
If necessary, you may use an audio delay to 'resync' the video with the
audio file(s). With MuxMan as
authoring engine, values between -300 and +300 milliseconds
are possible, with dvdauthor +/- 4999 milliseconds. The same
value is applied to all audiostreams, it is not possible to use
individual audio delays for each audio stream.
Remark: MuxMan is very 'sensitive' concerning audio streams i.e. for
mp2 files. If MuxMan doesn't accept a particular mp2 file, is sometimes
helps to 'clean' it with delaycut.
You can also use delaycut to set individual audio delays for different
audio streams without the +/-300 milliseconds limit for MuxMan.
3. Subtitles
Text based subtitles are accepted in the formats: *.sub, *.srt, *.ssa,
*.smi, *.rt, *.txt, *.aqt, *.jss, *.js
Since version 0.96 also binary subtitles (sup format) may be used.
These get converted by sup2png to png files and are then multiplexed
with spumux. With MuxMan as authoring engine sup or sst files
(i.e. from MaestroSBT) are
supported. As MuxMan supports these formats 'natively', it is much
faster than dvdauthor if subtitles are used.
Subtitles are normally not active by default. You can enable them with
the remote of your DVD player (or the correspondent menu item in a
soft player - for Media Player Classic i.e. with
Navigate - Subtitle Language -
Enabled). Since version 0.99 you can automatically activate the first
subtitle stream as default with 'Autostart', in this case you can
disable it again with a similar procedure as above. The different
subtitle streams may also be selected with the remote of your DVD
player (or the correspondent menu item in a soft player - for Media
Player Classic i.e. with Navigate - Subtitle Language), or you
can
create
a special subtitle menu.
Since version 0.96 you also have the possibility to change the subtitle
colors.
These may be edited by hand or read from an IFO or palette file (.pal
for
YCrCb colors and .rgb for RGB colors) or sst file. From IFO files (only
VTS files
can be used) the first found subtitle color entry is used. Palette
files must follow the dvdauthor specification: Text file with16 lines
as either YCrCb or RGB values in hex. Remark: For
subtitles in the binary sup
format you should always select an appropriate palette, the sup file
itself doesn't contain colors! Special case: SST files from MaestroSBT:
If you use MuxMan as engine and MaestroSBT for subtitle conversion, you
can/should use the sst file also as palette file (just use the same sst
file twice: 1. as subtitles file and 2. as palette file). MaestroSBT
writes the used colors in the sst file as comment lines. However as
only one palette may be used for a given movie, different subtitles
(stream 1,2,3) have to use the same colors.
To edit (or show) the subtitle colors click on
Please note: The colors are converted to rgb values to show/edit, but
stored as YCrCb values. Therefore some slight differences may occur.
There are also colors in the RGB space that cannot be lossless
converted to YCrCb. Subtitle colors always apply to all subtitles
within the movie.
AddStream: This option is only available if advanced mode is activated
in the default
project settings.
Furthermore it is used only for multiplexed material (mpg or vob) and
therefore only available with dvdauthor as authoring engine. It is
useful for multiplexed material (mpg or vob) which already contains
subtitles and you want to add additional subtitle
streams. In
order to use this possibility, you need to know which (how many)
subtitle streams are already multiplexed in your mpg or vob file. As
subtitles may start several minutes after the video, it would be
necessary to scan the whole file (which simply takes to long) in order
to check the contained subtitle streams automatically. For vob or mpg
files from an existing DVD, you can check the contained
subtitle
streams with Ifoedit. The parameter you need to enter is the stream
number of the first 'new' subtitle stream. If your vob or mpg file
contains two subtitle streams (stream 0 + stream 1), then you have to
enter a '2' here (the first additional subtitle stream will then be
stream 2 on the final DVD).
IMPORTANT: As the existing subtitles within
the vob or mpg file use a specific palette already, you should assign
this palette in the color settings (see above). The new subtitles
should be added exclusively in the SUP format and use the same palette
as the existing subtitles (if the subs are text based, convert them to
SUP with txt2sup or SubtitleCreator by using the same palette file!).
Only exception: All subtitles have been added by spumux with default
settings (then always the spumux default palette is used), then you may
also add text based subtitles directly.
Some formatting for the individual subtitles (as possible with spumux)
may be done with a click on
within the correspondent
subtitle line (1 to 3). These settings (except
language) should be used for text based subtitles only, as they have no
function for binary subtitles (.sup format). Default values (except
Width, Height, FPS and language) herefore can be set in the internal default Settings
or with 'Set Default'.
4. Chapters
Chapters can be read in either from a suitable file
(in
the format hour:minute:second.milliseconds,
hour:minute:second.frames whereby only hour and minute are mandatory or
just frames), or edited and/or
computed by automatic.
Autocreate # Chapters:
Here you can set a number of chapters, whereby these
are distributed evenly over the running time of the film
(start = 00:00:00.000 counts also as a chapter!).
Create A Chapter for each
## minutes:
Thus all ## minutes a chapter
mark is created up to the end of the
film.
You may define 'Autocreate # Chapters' or 'Create A Chapter for each ##
minutes' as default for each inserted movie in the default Videos+Image
settings.
With the
button
you may start the extended Chapter editor ChapEditGFD.
There you can search/set chapters 'visually'. It is also possible to
create
chapter images or clips (also by
automatic).
The
button also starts ChapEditGFD but automatically creates images/clips
(depending if animated menus is switched on or off) for the actual
chapter list without user interaction.
5. Pre and Post
Commands
With the button
you can start a simple VM-Command
editor to change pre and post
commands for this title. As long as you stay with the 'Default' values
here, GfD automatically calculates/sets these commands according to the
selected 'Start'- and 'End' actions in the default project settings.
To achive more control of these actions, you may 'overwrite' the
default values (i.e. to set a specific register or audio
stream/subtitle stream or start a specific chapter according to a
register value). In this case you are responsible for the logic
yourself. See also: Variables
concept
The calculated Approx. Total Size (MB) is a
guess only for elementary streams. For mp2 audio this guess is correct
usually with an error of less than 1%. For other audio formats this
error may be higher. Subtitle streams are not taken into
account!
(I have no idea how to calculate the final size for them...). If you
use shrinking, the result is calculated from the requantized video
stream.
Animated button:
If 'Animated menus' is switched on in the project settings,
an animated button is created by default if you add a video. If you
don't like this, you may 'delete' the animation here if you remove the
tag for 'Animated button'. See also: Short description for
animated menus
Changing the 'Targetfile' is only possible for elementary streams. It
is useful to get rid of special characters like ä,ö
(which
can't be handled by dvdauthor, but by mplex). No longer necessary as
GfD sets this automatically and MuxMan has no problems with special
characters at all.