DVD Authoring
- Graphical DVD-Video authoring with integrated timeline
- Drag-and-drop interactivity for easy design of sophisticated
titles
- Automatic BitBudget™ display
- Motion menu support
- Built-in Menu Compositor
DVD-Video Specification Support
- Universal regions (all regions enabled)
- Eight audio streams
- 32 subtitle tracks
- 99 Video Title Sets
- DVD-5 and DVD-10 support
- UDF/ISO 9660 formatting
- WriteDirect to CD-R, DVD-R and DLT devices
- Dual Layer DVD-ROM/DVD-Video hybrid support
- 16:9 aspect ratio support
Video Formats
- MPEG-2 (ISO-13818-2) Main Profile and Main Level
- MPEG-2 resolutions: 720 x 480, 720 x 576, 352 x 480,
352 x 576
- MPEG-1 (ISO-11172-2)
- MPEG-1 resolutions: 352 x 240, 352 x 280
- AVI and QuickTime video files
- DVD-compliant bit streams
Audio Formats
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- PCM 16-bit, 48 KHz
- MPEG-1 Layer 2
- DVD-compliant bit streams
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Video and Audio Input
- NTSC: 29.97 fps (525 lines, 60 Hz)
- PAL: 25 fps (625 lines, 50 Hz)
- Direct transcoding of QuickTime®, AVI and DV video
files
- SDI digital video input (Requires SD-1000 option)
- Balanced stereo analog audio input (Requires SD-1000
option)
- AES/EBU stereo digital audio input (Requires SD-1000
option)
Proofing- Complete DVD navigation
- View on PC display or external video monitor (Requires
SD-1000 option)
- Direct playback of elementary or multiplexed streams
- DVD Volume playback from DVD-ROM or hard disk
- SDI digital video output (Requires SD-1000 option)
- Analog audio output via PC loudspeakers
- S/PDIF Dolby Digital output (Requires SD-1000 option)
Optional SD-Series Encoders

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