AuthorScript® Video SD
AuthorScript Video SD, a component of the AuthorScript Video SDK, is a comprehensive solution for authoring video, audio, and
still-image content stored on a PC into DVD-Video content compatible with
hundreds of millions of set-top DVD players and DVD-equipped PCs worldwide.
AuthorScript Video SD also features integrated support for the VCD and SVCD formats.
Key Capabilities
With close to 400 APIs covering all aspects of DVD-Video creation, AuthorScript
Video SD's C++ libraries enable all the functionality needed at each stage of the
production process:
- Authoring:
- build a project structure (i.e. Movies, Slideshows, Menus, Playlists, etc.);
- populate the structure with references to source media (video, audio, and image files);
- define navigation for buttons and PGCs;
- define the look and feel of menus, either with custom settings or predefined styles;
- define project attributes and settings (e.g. TV system, aspect ratio, language, etc.).
- File conversion — convert referenced source asset streams into the elementary stream formats (e.g. MPEG-2 video) supported for playback in the target format (e.g. DVD-Video).
- Multiplexing — combine referenced source asset streams into the MPEG program stream format required for playback.
- Formatting — arrange all of the presentation content and navigation information into a file and directory structure ("disc image") readable by hardware and software DVD, VCD, or SVCD players.
- Writing — record a disc image to recordable or rewritable media, or to a folder or file.
Input Format Support
AuthorScript Video SD supports a wide variety of source files for project assets, transcoding
the files for video, audio, and stills into formats that are compatible with
the target logical format (e.g. DVD-Video).
| Asset type |
File formats |
| Video |
- 3GPP/3rd Generation Partnership Project (.3gp)
- Advanced Systems Format (.asf)
- AVI/Audio Visual Interleave (.avi)
- Digital Video (.dv)
- DirectShow Editing Services (.xlt)
- DivX (.divx)
- DVR-MS/Microsoft Digital Video Recording (.dvr, .dvr-ms) — requires optional install
- Flash Video (.flv)
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (extension depends on container file)
- Internet Video Recording/Real Player (.ivr)
- MPEG-1 (.mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, mpe, .mpv, .vbs)
- MPEG-2 (.m2p, .m2v, .mv2, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpv2)
- MPEG-4 (.mp4)
- QuickTime (.mov, .qt)
- TiVo (.tivo) — requires user install of TiVo decoder
- Video Object (.vob)
- Windows Media Video (.wmv, .wm) |
| Audio |
- Audio for Windows (.wav)
- Audio Interchange File Format ( .aif, .aifc, .aiff)
- Audio Visual Interleave (.avi)
- Digital Theatre Systems (.dts)
- Dolby Digital/AC-3 (.ac3)
- MPEG Audio Layer II (.mp2, .mpa, .abs)
- MPEG Audio Layer III (.mp3)
- QuickTime (.mov, .qt)
- SND (.snd)
- Unix Audio Format (.au)
- Windows Media Audio (.wma) |
| Still picture |
- Adobe Photoshop (.psd)
- BMP/Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
- CompuServe RLE/Run Length Encoding (.rle)
- GIF/Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
- JPEG/Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe)
- Macintosh PICT (.pct, .pic, .pict)
- PNG/Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- TIFF/Tag Image File Format (.tif, .tiff) — LZW compression is not supported |
Output Options
AuthorScript Video SD provides several different options for outputting a
DVD-Video or VCD/SVCD project:
- Recordable/rewritable media — build directly to media in a device:
- DVD-Video project to DLT, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL (12cm/8cm), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM;
- VCD/SVCD project to CD-R, CD-RW.
- Folder — build project to hard drive as a specification-compliant directory structure.
- ISO image file — build a specification-compliant disc image encapsulated in a single ISO file, which may subsequently be written to disc.
Platforms and Requirements
AuthorScript Video SD runs on host systems meeting the following requirements:
| Operating System |
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP (Service Pack 3 recommended) |
| Processor speed |
1GHz minimum (1.5 GHz recommended) |
| RAM |
512MB minimum (1GB recommended) |
| Disk Space |
20MB for SDK libraries |
| Other |
- DirectX 9.0c or later (10.0 or later for video slideshows)
- Windows Media Player 10.0 or later
- Windows-compatible sound card |
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