Pre-Captured Files Property Page
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When running projects with pre-captured files, the file types cannot be combined for a single DVD. In other words, you cannot make a DVD with a program stream as the first segment and elementary streams for the second segment.
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When creating a DVD from uncompressed files or files that will need to be transcoded, software audio and video comrpessors will be used to create the DVD compliant elementary streams.
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· | Elementary Streams - are audio and video files that are already encoded in a DVD compliant format. Currently those formats are DVD compliant MPEG-2 and AC3 or MPEG layer 2 audio. We currently do not support PCM (uncompressed) audio.
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· | Program Streams - are also encoded in a DVD compliant format. The audio and video are muxed as an MPEG-2 program stream.
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· | VOB Files - are the files that contain the muxed audio and video streams for a DVD. They exist in the VIDEO_TS folder and are named VTS_<title number>_<vob number>.VOB. A continuous video title may span multiple vob numbers and should all be included if you want the entire video title. When used this way, all the vob segments will be re-muxed into a single continuous video title again. In actuality, we will handle vob file in exactly the same way we handle program streams, so it doesn't really matter whether you chose VOB or Program streams.
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· | Files to encode - these are any files that need to be encoded or transcoded bre they can be authored into a DVD.
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· | Disc Image - this will be a UDF or ISO image that was created by this application or a compatible image from a 3rd party product.
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· | DVD drive or folder containing DVD files - the edit field must contain the drive letter of the DVD to copy, or the full path to a folder containing the VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS and optionally any data files to copy.
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· | Generic DVD - this will point to a generic non-protected DVD.
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· | RocketDVD Professional authored DVD - this will point to a DVD authored by RocketDVD Professional. The difference between this option and the previous is that this DVD will contain a collateral folder with files that will allow the DVD to be re-authored or simply copied with the same disc label and case wrap. This feature is very useful if someone brings a DVD you made for them and asks for a copy including all the same packaging.
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· | Extension Filters - The file extension filters listed for each of the pre-capture file types have the following function:
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· | They are used for file filtering when browsing for files to add in the Pre-Captured File List dialog below.
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· | They are also used when dragging and dropping file(s) onto the RocketDVD Pro application. The filters will be used to determine the type of file as well as which cell it should go into. When files are dragged and dropped on the application, the project will automatically be set for pre-captured files and the type of pre-captured file will be set based on the file types dropped. After files are dropped and added to the pre-captured file list, the project property page is opened to the pre-captured file tab and the pre-captured file list dialog is opened showing the newly dropped files. When files are dropped, an attemp is made to automatically determine the duration of the clip. The title column is also populated from the base name of the file. Additional files can be added by dropping them outside of grid cells or they can be dropped into a specific cell. Dragging and dropping from one cell to another is currently not supported.
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· | Enter/Edit File List - is used to enter or edit the list of pre-captured files. It will pop up the folllowing dialog box:
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· | Expand To Fit - will expand the columns equally to fit the width of the window.
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· | Auto Width - will resize the columns to fit the content.
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· | Add Row - adds a row to the end.
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· | Set Segment Text from Filename - if this option is checked, whenever a cell in the Video File column is updated, the filename minus the path and extension will be copied over to the Title column for that row.
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· | Import CSV... - will import the pre-encoded file list from a coma/tab separated text file.
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· | Export CSV... - will export the pre-encoded file list to a coma/tab separated text file.
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· | Audio/Video File - the picture shows elementary streams being specified. If Program Streams or VOB files were specified, there would be only one column for entering the media.
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· | Thumbnail - this column is optional if making a DVD without menu or a DVD with menu but no scene selection page(s). If no thumbnails are specified, then no thumbnails would be available for the case wrap either. Since only one thumbnail per segment can be specified, only one chapter per segment should be specified on the authoring page if chapter thumbnails are to be used.
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· | Length - this column is also optional if making a DVD with only one chapter per segment and no chapter insert. If lengths are not specified, the following chapter selection methods cannot be chosen: 'Arbitrary Number of Chapters' and 'Arbitrary Chapter Length'.
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· | Title - this column is optional if not making a DVD that has chapter titles on the scene selection pages.
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