SONIC ReelDVD
Product Summary
System Requriements
 SONIC Product
 Sonic Scenarist

 
 
 
   
  Sonic ReelDVD is designed specifically for independent and corporate video projects and brings exciting multimedia DVD to your professional productions. Built upon the same tried-and-tested DVD formatting technology from Scenarist, Sonic's Hollywood-standard authoring system on Windows, ReelDVD combines the strength of professional-level software with a friendly user interface and simple workflow, making the process of creating professional-quality DVDs quick and easy.

ReelDVD allows you to express your creativity interactively, while creating DVD titles with the broadest range of player compatibility, previously only available to studio professionals.
   
 
   
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   Key Features
   
  Storyboard editor - An interactive storyboard layout editor provides a complete overview of your project, and lets you selectively focus on what's important.

Timeline view - See each movie in your project on an interactive timeline. Add chapter marks, audio tracks and subtitles.

Multiple Audio and Subtitle streams - Give your DVD international appeal, with up to eight audio and 32 subtitle tracks alongside the video presentation. Whether it's a sales presentation or indie film, you can instantly broaden its appeal.

Integrated project preview - Play back your project directly from the hard drive, and verify every aspect of interactivity before you replicate, or burn to DVD-R.

Subtitle editor - Quickly and easily add subtitles on-the-fly. Just move the cursor to the timeline position for the subtitle, and enter the text.

Dolby Digital audio - ReelDVD automatically converts your audio to stereo Dolby Digital for professional set-top playback.

Motion menus - Allow users to interact with the video content by adding button links on top of video.

Slideshows - Program advanced interactivity for sophisticated titles, or turn a collection of stills into an interactive slideshow.

Broad range of device support - Record your titles to DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R, CD-RW and DLT tape.

Dolby-certified Dolby Digital audio encoding
     
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     DVD Authoring
     
  Graphical DVD-Video authoring with integrated timeline
  Drag-and-drop authoring and navigation programming
  Graphical editing of menus and interactivity content
  Track sorting table
  DVD stream assembly
  Motion menu support
  Automated video looping
     
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     DVD-Video Specification Support
     
  Universal regions (all regions enabled)
  999 movies, stills, slideshows and stillshows
  Eight audio tracks
  32 subtitle tracks
  Slideshow support
  DVD-5 support
  UDF/ISO 9660 formatting
  16:9 aspect ratio support
  Next, Previous, and Return link programming
  Next, Previous, and Return link programming
  Chapter point programming
  Link to chapter points
     
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     Still Image and Subtitle Support
     
  Layered Photoshop files (automatically generates mask & buttons)
  Photoshop, BMP, JPEG, MPI, PICT, TIFF, YUV
  Industry-standard subtitle script files: SST-2
     
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     Video Format Support
     
  NTSC: 29.97 fps (525 lines, 60 Hz)
  PAL: 25 fps (625 lines, 50 Hz)
  MPEG-2 (ISO-13818-2) Main Profile and Main Level
  MPEG-2 resolutions: 720 x 480, 720 x 576, 352 x 480, 352 x 576
  MPEG-1 (ISO-11172-2)
  MPEG-1 resolutions: 352 x 240, 352 x 280
  DVD-compliant bit streams
     
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     Audio Format Support
     
  Dolby Digital stereo
  MPEG-1 Layer II stereo
  PCM, WAV, AIFF 16-bit, 48 KHz stereo
     
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     Audio Encoding
     
  Automatic stereo Dobly Digital encoding from PCM and MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio sources
     
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     Proofing
     
  Complete DVD navigation
  Direct playback of elementary or multiplexed streams from the proje
  DVD Volume playback from DVD-ROM or hard disk
     
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     Output Options
     
  Export project to Sonic Scenarist
  Full range of DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R, CD-RW and DLT devices.
     
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