Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

One of the challenges for new users is "finding your way around" your familiar project using the DVDAfterEdit Interface. This section gives some hints, tips and rules-of-thumb for DVD Studio Pro users.

Finding Tracks and Menus

If you are using "Manual VTS allocation", you will already know where to look for your assets - in the VTS you chose for them. Otherwise, the following rules of thumb may be useful.

Finding Tracks

• Track 1 is in VTS 1, PGC 1
• Track 2 is in VTS 2, PGC 1
• Track 3 is in VTS 3, PGC 1 ...etc.

Stories start in PGC 2 of each VTS, in the same order as in DVDSP.

( Nb: Things become a little more complicated when you have more than one aspect ratio - use the "VTS View" in DVDSP to see exactly where your Tracks are. )

Finding Menus

• For a project with only one aspect ratio ( ie. either 4:3 or 16:9 ) all the menus are contained in VTS Menu 1 ( VTSM 1 )

• For a project with both 4:3 and 16:9 footage, all the 4:3 menus are in VTSM 1, and all the 16:9 menus are in VTSM 2

• When you select a VTSM in DVDAfterEdit, the first 6 PGCs are always "dummies" - think of them as Scripts that DVDSP automatically adds to control navigation. So, to see Menu 1 in your DVDSP project, open VTSM 1 and select PGC 7.

• Menus with Transitions will contain two Programs ( PG ) or Cells - these are like chapters. The transition "into" your menu is contained in the first PG, the menu itsefl with buttons, is contained in the second.