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Useful resources for HD authoring, both HD DVD & Blu Ray.

HDAfterEdit Beta List

We've started a mailing list here at Rivergate Software for the discussion of HDAfterEdit features, bugs, issues, likes and dislikes. Your email submissions will be seen by other testers, support and the developers themselves. You can subscribe by sending an email to the address beta-list-join@dvdafteredit.com. Click here and your email software should do the right thing. If not you can use the web interface here. Messages to beta-list-request@dvdafteredit.com are used to change options. Commands can be in the subject line or the body of the message. For example, click here to send the help command from your email program.

HD DVD Blogs

Several Microsoft employees are providing excellent information on HD DVD, especially HDi, on their blogs. This section will provide links to some of the best, along with occasional comments. In fact, some should probably be considered essential reading for anyone intending to work with Advanced Content.

Getting Started With HD DVD

This area of the site will aim to provide useful starting points for authors interested in finding out more about HD DVD. Ultimately we hope to provide tutorials and guides on authoring an HD DVD, but to begin with we will focus on describing what HD DVD is, how it differs from SD DVD, and where you can look to learn more.

HD DVD Structure

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This section provides technical reference material for all users. A more informal treament can be found in the Getting Started section.

An HD DVD contains two types of contents: one is Standard Content and the other is Advanced Content. Standard Content is a pure extension of SD, as described in DVD-Video specification Version 1.1.

The Quick 'n' Dirty Guide to HDAfterEdit

This guide is aimed at getting alpha and beta-testers up and running with HDAfterEdit v1 as quickly as possible. It assumes a good knowledge of DVDAE Version 3 and DVD authoring in general, and will be continually under development. As we near release the documentation will come online and make it redundant.