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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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TUTORIAL TOPIC: SCRIPTING
TUTORIAL TITLE: MAKING A RANDOM PLAY FUNCTION
This tutorial shows how to Script the Random Play function. This script will continue to select a track at random, as long as the DVD plays. Perfect for a Trade Show attractor loop, or a free-runing Product Demo Video
By the way - If you like this tutorial and want to own a project just like it completely assembled and ready to go, visit the Recipe4DVD Downloads Store , where you can 5 or 6 variations waiting for you to explore! To see details of the projects, visit "ProPack2 Details" in the Pro-Packs Main Menu item.
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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TUTORIAL TOPIC: AUTHORING
TUTORIAL TITLE: USING THE DESCRIPTION FILE
This tutorial shows how to use the Description file to save and re-use project elements like Tracks (Logos, FBI warning, etc) and more importantlly Menus, which can save a lot of work. You can even save an ENTIRE DVD as a description!
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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TUTORIAL TOPIC: MENUING
TUTORIAL TITLE: SETTING BUTTON STYLES
Did you know you can adjust the size of a button, and embed text and font stylings into it with one click?
You can then use that same button to create identical new ones over and over!
This tutorial shows how to use button styles o speed up repetitive tasks in the Menu Editor.
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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TUTORIAL TOPIC: SCRIPTING
TUTORIAL TITLE: SCRIPTING SUBTITLE SELECTION
This tutorial shows how to Script the Selection of Subtitl Streams. This is different fro using a Button to set a subtitle stream!
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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 Understanding System Parameters - SPRMs
A DVD player continually tracks its ongoing operation in a group of
memory registers called System Parameter Register Memories
(SPRMs or “spirms”). The status of the player’s operation (i.e., which
track is playing, what audio stream is currently selected, the last
menu button selected, last chapter marker passed, and so on) can
be read by script commands that access the SPRMs. Unlike the
generic GPRMs, SPRMs have very specific predefined functions...
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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Every DVD player contains 16 General Parameter Register Memories
(GPRMs, or “germs”). Similar to RAM in your computer, these are
generic memory locations the player can use like a scratchpad to read
and write information while it is operating. Scripting gives you to access 8 of these GPRMs, numbered GPRM 0 – GPRM 7. The remaining 8 are unavailable for scripting purposes. GPRMs have no specific preset function
– any GPRM can be used for a particular function in one disc, and then may be used for a completely different function in another project.
You will find that you will use GPRMs a LOT in Scripting. They are
extremely powerful, and very versatile.
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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A Hybrid Disc is a DVD disc which can also deliver computer-readable
material from the DVD-ROM zone of the disc, (especially useful for
creating File-enabled discs using DVD@cess).
This tutorial shows how to create Hybrid DVDs
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Tutorials
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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 Any DSP Project can be “File-enabled” using DVD@cess to open up HTML files which have been retrieved from the DVD disc itself! (NOTE: this doesn’t work on a Set-top box, only a DVD-enabled
Computer)
To make File-Enablement work from your DVD, you must create a DVD
HYBRID disc by using DVD Studio Pro’s ROM FOLDER function to add DVD-ROM data, OR by building a DVD Volume and then adding in the folder containing the ROM material before burning with TOAST. (Check out the tutorial about building DVD-Hybrids to learn how to create a DVD Hybrid.)
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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Any DSP Project can be “File-enabled” using DVD@cess to open up HTML files which have been retrieved from the Internet! Of
course, you know this will only work a DVD-enabled computer – and of course, it works best on a Mac!
To do this correctly, the DVD@cess property has to be set to URL, and a valid Web URL has to be entered – ...
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Tutorials
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Written by Bruce Nazarian, 'the DVD Guy'
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Creating Script command lines is simple, but using them repeatedly is easier now that there is a Copy
and Paste function in the Script Command Editor. This feature was added in DVDSP 3, so it is
now possible to COPY and PASTE command lines within Scripts, or
from Script to Script. Don’t forget that you can always create a tiny
kernel of a script and save it as a Script Description file, which can be re-imported as many times as needed, and modified to customize it. ... to be continued...
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