Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB DVD-Audio projects 20 – 561 Copy/Paste These buttons let you apply the same settings quickly from one track menu to another. Just make all the desired settings for one track menu and click “Copy”. Then select another track menu and click “Paste”. All the settings in the first menu will then be applied to the second. Add menu for groups If this is activated, there will be group menus available for editing. If not, there will be only track menus. Hide last group This is available only if you have chosen to create a bonus group, as de- scribed in the section “About the “Create bonus group” option” on page 557. As previously mentioned, the last group can be specified as a bonus group. If you activate this option, the bonus group will be hidden and not appear in the menu. Elements menu This drop-down menu lets you select which elements in the menu to edit. Possible options are: Album title, Group names, Track names and Naviga- tion buttons. Which options are available depends on the selection made on the Menu type drop-down menu, described above. Show This is available only when you have selected Album title or Group names from the Elements menu, and lets you determine whether the album title and the group names should be visible in the menu or not.
WAVELAB 20 – 562 DVD-Audio projects Name/index/time menu This drop-down menu is only available when you have selected Group names or Track names from the Elements menu. It lets you decide whether the groups and tracks should be displayed by name only, or using different combinations of name, index (group/track number) and time (group/track length). Format This button is only available when you have selected to display group names and track names by a combination of name, index and time. Click- ing this button opens another dialog that lets you select the format for the time and index indicators. In this dialog, you can choose for example to use roman numerals to indi- cate the index numbers. Font Clicking this button opens a standard Windows dialog that lets you choose which font to use for the selected element (album title, group names or track names). This is not available for navigation buttons.
WAVELAB DVD-Audio projects 20 – 563 Layout menu The items on this menu allow you to specify the desired basic layout of the visual menu. For album title, group names and navigation buttons, you can choose the alignment for the text – left side, centered or right side. For track names, you can select the number of columns and their alignment. Vertical spacing This allows you to adjust the vertical spacing between the selected type of elements. For a track list, this is the space between each track name. For an album name, a group name or navigation buttons, this is the space between the element and the track list. The easiest and most convenient way to adjust the value is probably to double-click in the field and use the slider that pops up. Values you set are “stored” and can be recalled later and set by selecting them from the drop-down menu that appears when you click the arrow button to the right. Left/Right margins These allow you to adjust the margins between the left and right sides of the column(s) and the safety area borders (see below), thereby effectively changing the size of the column(s). Values you set are “stored” and can be recalled later and set by selecting them from the drop-down menu that appears when you click the arrow button to the right. Top/Bottom margins These are only available for track names and allow you to adjust the top and bottom margins of the column(s) and the album title/group name and navigation buttons, changing the size of the column(s). Values you set are “stored” and can be recalled later and set by selecting them from the drop- down menu that appears when you click the arrow button to the right.
WAVELAB 20 – 564 DVD-Audio projects Color settings (Normal, Selection, Action) All elements except album titles and group names in a visual menu can have three states: Normal (unselected), selected (touched by the cursor) and active (when the command is carried out – e.g. starting playback of a selected track). The three colored squares allow you to select which color the selected element should have in each of these states. Click the col- ored squares and select a color from the standard color picker dialog that appears. Preferably select contrasting colors to assure the visibility of the cursor in all states to facilitate easy navigation of the menu. Highlight settings (text or background) This menu lets you select whether the color settings you make as described above should be reflected in the actual text or in a cursor over the text. Show edit areas If you activate this option, an outline of the edit areas will be visible, which is helpful when designing the menu. The edit areas are the spaces allo- cated to each of the different elements in the menu. A column for a track list, for example, is an edit area.
WAVELAB DVD-Audio projects 20 – 565 Show safety area If you activate this option, an outline of the safety area will be visible. The safety area is the part of the display area that is guaranteed to be visible when the menu is displayed on a regular TV set. Visual menus, pictures, etc. on DVD-A are usually set up on a computer monitor, and the display area, resolution and aspect ratio of computer monitors are different from those of TV sets. The safety area therefore consists of about 80% of the pixels shown on a computer monitor. Items outside of this area will not show on a regular TV monitor, meaning that no items on a visual menu should be outside of the safety area. Navigation buttons These buttons in the bottom left corner work just like the buttons on a re- mote control unit and let you navigate the visual menu to test it. If you acti- vate the option “Simulate (with playback)”, you can also activate playback of the tracks. • The four cursor buttons let you step between the elements of the menu. • The enter button in the middle lets you perform different actions: Opening a group to view its contents, activating playback of a track and using the navigation but- tons in the display. • The Stop button lets you stop playback of a track.
WAVELAB 20 – 566 DVD-Audio projects Background picture/color The radio buttons “Picture” and “Color” directly below the display let you decide whether to use a picture as background for the menu, or whether the menu should be filled with a color of your choice. •If you select “Picture” you get access to the folder button to the right. Use this to browse for the picture you want to use as background. WaveLab supports the picture formats jpg/jpeg and bmp. • Note that the picture should preferably match the resolution of the selected video format (NTSC or PAL/SECAM – see “TV system” on page 557). For NTSC this is 720x480 pixels, and for PAL/SECAM it is 720x576 pixels. If the picture doesn’t match the selected format resolution, it will be automatically resized by WaveLab, but resizing it manually before use may yield a better result. •If you select “Color”, you can click the colored square to the right. This opens a standard color picker dialog which lets you specify the color you want to use. DVD-Audio text The DVD-Audio text dialog can either be opened from the DVD-A view : Functions menu for a Montage, or from the Functions menu in a DVD-Au- dio project. This dialog allows you to add and specify very detailed text in- formation. DVD players that support DVD-Audio text can access this information. Album, group and track names are automatically generated from the source Montage(s) and cannot be edited in this dialog. The functionality differs slightly depending on whether this dialog is opened from a Montage or from a DVD-Audio project: • If it is opened from a Montage you can add text information at each level (group or track). • If it is opened from a DVD-Audio project you can only add text information at the top level (album).
WAVELAB DVD-Audio projects 20 – 567 When you first open this dialog it contains a main folder with a number of subfolders inside it. These items are all automatically generated and have to be edited outside of this dialog. Folders and subfolders are opened by double-clicking them. On the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog you will find a multitude of text options divided into various categories. You use the dialog in the fol- lowing way: 1.First select an appropriate text option heading from the pop-up menu. This is now displayed in the text field next to the pop-up. 2.Select which automatically generated item you want to add the text infor- mation to, and click the green plus icon. An item is added on a sub-level to the album, group or track item you selected, and a text field appears allowing you to type in the information. • To remove an item, select it and click on the red cross icon. • If you have added several sub-items for a generated album, group or track entry, you can use the up/down arrows to move it up or down in the list.
WAVELAB 20 – 568 DVD-Audio projects Final preparations When you have made all necessary preparations in the DVD-Audio project it is time to move on to the (next to) final process! Using the Check function Before rendering the DVD-Audio project, you should use the Check func- tion. This will automatically check all Montages in the project and display a detailed warning if the project does not comply with the DVD-Audio standard. •Select “Check all” from the Functions menu or click the “glasses” icon. All Montages added to the DVD-Audio project will now automatically open. If all is well, a message appears stating that the DVD-Audio is ready to be created. At this stage, you should make sure that the correct Master Section set- tings are used. Before rendering, you have the option of rendering all Montages using the currently selected Master Section settings. If you wish to do so, make sure the Montage with the Master Section settings you wish to use is selected (click the LED at the top of the Master Level pane to make sure the “right” Master Section is shown) and continue.
WAVELAB DVD-Audio projects 20 – 569 Rendering the DVD-Audio project Before burning the DVD you have to render all the contents of the DVD- Audio project to an AUDIO_TS folder. This folder is automatically added to a Data CD/DVD project, from where you can start the actual burning process. 1.Select “Create…” from the Functions menu or click the red disc icon. The DVD-Audio creation dialog appears. In this dialog you can set the following options: 2.Click OK to render the DVD-Audio project. Option Description Test This will create a report about the contents of the DVD- Audio project. Render each Montage with its own plug-in setThis option will render each Montage with its own set of master effects. Note that if you are applying dither for a multichannel Montage, the internal dithering plug-in must be used. Use current Master Section settings for all Audio MontagesThis will render all Montages according to the currently selected Master Section. Ignore This will render the Montages without any Master Section effects or dithering. Output folder Here you can select a destination for the rendered files (i.e. where the AUDIO_TS folder will be created).
WAVELAB 20 – 570 DVD-Audio projects The contents of the DVD-Audio project are now rendered according to your settings. When the rendering process is finished, a Data DVD/CD project is automatically opened, containing a AUDIO_TS folder and an (empty) VIDEO_TS folder. From here you can do one of the following: • Burn the DVD without adding any additional data or a VIDEO_TS folder. • Add data and/or a VIDEO_TS folder (authored in another application). This is described in the section “Data CD/DVD Projects” on page 583.