Authoring software sought

[Ghitulescu]

I've found several months ago a commercial DVD having the infos in the DVD text area completely mixed up, for instance the title of the DVD was put in the field reserved for the Provider Id.

I assume it's a middle price class authoring software, and I'm really curious to find it.

Had any of you worked with an authoring software that behaves like that? Maybe on Macs?

[rik1138]

Well, Scenarist allows you fill in those fields... If they were filled in incorrectly, that sounds like a mistake the author made...

I always put my name and the version of Scenarist I'm using in the Provider ID field. Helps prove what discs I worked on (more than once I've caught people claiming they made discs that I made, and was able to prove it. :) ), and reminds me of what ver of Scenarist was used (helpful when opening old copies of the project, some versions of Scenarist aren't friendly with other versions...)

[crl2007]

You put your dvds up for download ?

[Ghitulescu]

Well, Scenarist allows you fill in those fields... If they were filled in incorrectly, that sounds like a mistake the author made...
I know that, but it's not a human mistake, I've seen a lot of them lately, when I started to check other DVDs from the same company. It's either a stupid human operator that consequently and maybe intentionally commits the same error over and over (ie filling the DVD title in the InputField labeled ProviderID), or a software bug in an authoring software.
You put your dvds up for download ?I can't: they're commercial so I can't give you neither the VOBs nor [even] the IFOs.

I was simply trying to guess what application did they use, I can't afford buying all the commercial ones just for a caprice. Besides, I don't find the thread right now, one such DVD also employed a "jump command" (don't remember now whether it was a Call, a Jump or a Link etc.) that worked in all my players except for a professional DVD player (!!!).

[crl2007]

I was asking rik1138. He stated that people sometimes steal his dvds.

[Ghitulescu]

Sorry, I thought you want to have a look yourself in the IFOs.

[rik1138]

I was asking rik1138. He stated that people sometimes steal his dvds.

Heh, no, not for download, but forsale. I author DVD/Blu-ray for a living. Someone was interviewing for an authoring job at a place I used to work at, and he brought a few DVDs he claimed to have authored as samples of his work. Two of them were ones I had done, and I showed my manager where I put my name on the disc... :cool: Needless to say, he didn't get the job... Only happened that one time, and I never expected something like that to happen (I haven't authored THAT many DVDs, compared to everything that's out there...), but my manager thought it was pretty funny. The guy interviewing seemed a little shady anyway...