GM006
13th May 2005, 23:36
Well, I've just gotten off of the phone with a Sonic engineer and he gave me some specs on the new HD-DVDs that are coming out. Scenarist HD will support "Type 1" of the HD Spec and the Spec will be just like the current one, only more.
Upto 511 VTS domains, 511 TItles, etc.
64 GPRMs
8-Bit subpictures
Buttons can now have up to 8 commands each (current spec only allows for 1 command per button).
That's all he told me about it. The spec hasn't been finalized yet as well all know, but around the end of June, he told me to call him back to get ALL the finalized specs. These were straight from the horse's mouth.
Also, there is a "Type 2" spec. Type 2 will run on a Java Engine, meaning that Picture and Picture video is done on the fly insteady of it stopping, branching, loading, playing. Example: first Matrix film has the white rabbit. You click on it, the dvd player branches off, plays the bonus segment and returns you to the film. Type 2 allows the bonus segment to load/play on the fly in its own window without interupting the movie. When you menu call to change audio/subs, etc, the movie isn't stopped. So Type 2 may be bitter-sweet for pro-authors. A LOT more work for the same pay.
And one last note, Scenarist 3.1 is coming out very soon. This new version contains -
Dual Layer burning
No seamless branching
Doesn't slow down when 1000's of assets have been imported.
And a few more fixes.
Upto 511 VTS domains, 511 TItles, etc.
64 GPRMs
8-Bit subpictures
Buttons can now have up to 8 commands each (current spec only allows for 1 command per button).
That's all he told me about it. The spec hasn't been finalized yet as well all know, but around the end of June, he told me to call him back to get ALL the finalized specs. These were straight from the horse's mouth.
Also, there is a "Type 2" spec. Type 2 will run on a Java Engine, meaning that Picture and Picture video is done on the fly insteady of it stopping, branching, loading, playing. Example: first Matrix film has the white rabbit. You click on it, the dvd player branches off, plays the bonus segment and returns you to the film. Type 2 allows the bonus segment to load/play on the fly in its own window without interupting the movie. When you menu call to change audio/subs, etc, the movie isn't stopped. So Type 2 may be bitter-sweet for pro-authors. A LOT more work for the same pay.
And one last note, Scenarist 3.1 is coming out very soon. This new version contains -
Dual Layer burning
No seamless branching
Doesn't slow down when 1000's of assets have been imported.
And a few more fixes.