DVD authoring software

[George Wing]

Sonic Scenarist 🙂

[Eric Pautsch]

Try this – it kinda has a learning curve:

https://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/

[Roadkill]

Eric,

Angles are part of DVD-lab’s “Future Plans”, not of the current product. 😉

[Bob Cole]

What is “Multi-angle?”

[Dave Friend]

A seldomseparate used feature of the DVD spec. Somewhat like alternate audio tracks for different languages there can be separate video tracks with other angles of the video (think multi-cam).

If you dig into the controls of your DVD player you should find the function that allows you to choose which ‘angle’ (a.k.a. video track) to view. Of course you only have the option if an alternate angle is present on the disc. I’ve only ever seen one – a training DVD for hair stylist.

There are some technical requirements for a multi-angle compliant mpeg2 file. I think it mostly pertains to having the same and a consistent GOP structure on each angle. And of course your authoring application must allow for multi-angle DVD creation.

Dave

[Alex Alexzander]

DVD Studio Pro supports Mixed and Multi-angle DVD authoring.

[David Roth weiss]

Bob,

In a nutshell, multi-angle is currently in use by only segment of the entainment industry. There’s doggie style shot from behind, from the front, from above, from below, POV of the guy, of the girl, etc., etc., etc. Get the picture???

DRW

[Arky]

Just to clarify a little, ‘Mixed-Angle’ is not a true DVD Spec’ term, but refers to the creation of Title VOBs with portions of conventional, non-interleaved, material interspersed with one or more Interleave Blocks, containing multiple Angle choices. A typical example of this approach is in films where the beginning and end credit sequences are comprised of multiple language versions, in the form of alternative Angles, so that the main feature is in the one language, but, depending on which Angle has been ‘set’, by a viewer’s language choice, the appropriate Angle, containing the chosen language, will be ‘honoured’ by the player any time an Angle Interleave Block is encountered during playback of the Title. Other Title designs are not language based, but simply allow the viewer to access Multi-Angle content manually, using the remote, at isolated portions during playback of an otherwise non-Multi-Angle feature.

John.
(‘Arky’)

P.S. I hope pastures-new are working out ok for you, Alex.

[Arky]

I neglected to add that, while Scenarist, as George W rightly stated, is capable of Mutli-Angle (both Seamless and Non-Seamless, if you have the Pro version), so is Minerva (Pinnacle) Impression (although Impression is only capable of a lowly 2 Angles, in total).

However, given that Scenarist is so stratospherically-priced, I would wholeheartedly agree with Alex’s suggestion to use DVD Studio Pro, even if it means buying a Mac Mini in order to use it. DVD SP 2/3 is, as most people are aware, by-and-large, a port of Spruce Technologies’ DVDMaestro. DVD SP 3 may not be perfect (what software IS?), but it is undoubtedly the most powerful piece of DVD Authoring software available for less than a thousand (or considerably more) dollars. It will, with a little coaxing(!) manage the full Spec limit of 8 Angles, along with a whole host of other capabilities which Encore is only beginning to scratch the surface of (note that DVD SP will do Buttons Over Video, which can be useful when undertaking Multi-Angle work).

John.
(‘Arky’)

[David Roth weiss]

[arky] “Other Title designs are not language based, but simply allow the viewer to access Multi-Angle content manually, using the remote, at isolated portions during playback of an otherwise non-Multi-Angle feature.”

“Shorthand” for adult films…