The Format/Copy Dialog has been reworked to make it a bit easier to understand, and expanded to permit user modification of some additional descriptors on the disc, tape, or tape image. As part of these changes, additional application and project preferences were added.
The dialog is now split into five sections, organizing the fields into logical groups. It is hoped that this organization will make it easier for the author to focus on the fields of interest.
Format/Copy
This section shows the source and destination options for the format/copy. This is the only section shown for all selections except the copy from project to tape or disc image.
Copy Protection
For copy to disc image, this section contains only the Copy Generation Management and Macrovision fields, since these are the only copy protection fields that can apply to a disc image. All regions are enabled by Rule.
For copy to tape or tape image, this section also contains the CSS and Output Format choices, plus the region encoding.
Layer Break
The layer break info is shown for both tape and disc, even though it really applies only to tape for replication. The Disc Side field is updated in the Video Manager if necessary.
Directories
This section determines whether or not to include Macintosh ROM Data, and how to construct the ISO, Joliet, and UDF directories. If Macintosh ROM data is not included, any .DS_Store files are excluded.
Descriptors
The Disc Name is derived initially from the enclosing folder name, but may be changed by the author. It determines the name to be used for the replicated disc, and is not restricted to upper case characters as is sometimes enforced by other software or authoring conventions. This field is also used to derive several internal directory fields that normally are never exposed, but may appear in TFDVDEdit logs.
The Tape Label is also derived from the enclosing folder name, and may be changed. This field is written to the ANSI Tape Volume Header, and is restricted to Ascii characters. This is the first record written to DLT, and can be used to identify your DLT later. Many other fields are written automatically to the tape or image, and may be discovered at a later time from the log, including the current date and time the tape or image was created.
The Publisher would normally be your Client, or your Company if you are authoring your own DVD's. This is written to the Publisher field in the directory information.
The Preparer is usually you, the Author. It is pre-filled from the information you gave when you registered TFDVDEdit 3, into your Application Preferences, where you may change it. It will contain the Company Name if you gave one, or if not the User Name. Whatever is in the current Application Preferences is copied into each new project. It is written to the Data Preparer field in the directory information.