Dynamic End Jumps in DVD Studio Pro By Dave Nagel
We've now explored two simple methods for creating custom end jumps for tracks, stories and chapters. One involved a couple of easy scripts; the other involved nothing more than replacing chapter links with story links. Now, though, I want to show you a way you can use scripts not just to target a "last viewed" menu dynamically, but to target any button on any menu based solely on the last button selected.
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Conditional Chapter Jumps in DVD Studio Pro By Dave Nagel
In DVD Studio Pro, the simplest way to to enable playback of individual chapters is to use the program's Story feature. However, this isn't always feasible. It's laborious, and you may have too many tracks and individual chapters to be able to do it at all. An alternate method is to use scripting to enable users to play either just one chapter or an entire track. (Even if you don't want to do that, there's a nice technique embedded in here for creating dynamic chapter buttons.)
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Scripting System Streams in DVD Studio Pro By Dave Nagel
Whether you like it or not, over the course of your DVD authoring career, there will come a time when you simply have to resort to scripting. One of those occasions is when you're working with multiple streams--whether those streams be audio, subtitles or angles. There's simply no way around it. In this first part in our third series on scripting in DVD Studio Pro, we'll take a look at scripting subtitles--specifically scripting buttons so that viewers can not only enable and disable them in a menu, but also resume where they left off.
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Scripting a Dynamic 'Play All' Button in DVD Studio Pro 3 By Dave Nagel
Last week we took a look at one quick method for merging tracks in order to create a "play all" button in Apple DVD Studio Pro. But that method isn't right for all situations. So this time we'll take a look at a way to use scripting to add this functionality to your project. No, this isn't a regurgitation of the scripts explained in DVDSP's manual. That method is too time-consuming. Instead, we'll try a new technique that requires only three short scripts.
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DVD Studio Pro Scripting, Part 4 By Dave Nagel
We now know how to construct an interactive quiz in DVD Studio Pro, one that keeps track of a user's score and also sets a time limit using a GPRM-based counter function. But what if we want to make things a bit more interesting for the viewer, adding in scenes from our main program that demonstrate the correct answer without eating up any of the time allotted to the test itself? In this next installment in our interactive quiz series, we'll look at how to pause and resume a timer for just this purpose.
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DVD Studio Pro Scripting, Part 2 By Dave Nagel
In our first look at scripting in Apple's DVD Studio Pro, we explored methods for creating "view previous" buttons by storing information in our General Purpose Register Memories, or GPRMs. This time we take it a step further by setting values for multiple GPRMs and using math to keep track of these values as they build up. Why? Well, we're going to set up a quiz for our viewers that will allow us to keep score and dole out rewards and punishments as we deem appropriate. Sound difficult? It really isn't. Trust me.
...Read More »
DVD Studio Pro Scripting By Dave Nagel
For most, scripting in DVD Studio Pro is a complete mystery. It's not that it's complex by any means; it's just that there's a dearth of accessible documentation and a lack of real-world examples to provide a reference point for getting started. Nevertheless, scripting can be an essential part of your DVD presentation and can also save you hours of repetitive, redundant work. In short, if you create DVDs, you ought to know scripting.
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In Hollywood, there is little doubt that MAXON's CINEMA 4D is the 3D motion graphics artist's best friend. For years, I've been telling you about how easy it is to use, what brilliantly stunning images it produces, how quickly it renders through projects, it's offering of dynamic animation, and, most recently, about its increasingly powerful set of motion graphics tools which fit neatly into production pipelines. So, what could possibly be better than all that has come before? Plenty.
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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Dynamic End Jumps in DVD Studio Pro
We've now explored two simple methods for creating custom end jumps for tracks, stories and chapters. One involved a couple of easy scripts; the other involved nothing more than replacing chapter links with story links. Now, though, I want to show you a way you can use scripts not just to target a "last viewed" menu dynamically, but to target any button on any menu based solely on the last button selected.
...Read More »
Conditional Chapter Jumps in DVD Studio Pro
In DVD Studio Pro, the simplest way to to enable playback of individual chapters is to use the program's Story feature. However, this isn't always feasible. It's laborious, and you may have too many tracks and individual chapters to be able to do it at all. An alternate method is to use scripting to enable users to play either just one chapter or an entire track. (Even if you don't want to do that, there's a nice technique embedded in here for creating dynamic chapter buttons.)
...Read More »
Scripting System Streams in DVD Studio Pro
Whether you like it or not, over the course of your DVD authoring career, there will come a time when you simply have to resort to scripting. One of those occasions is when you're working with multiple streams--whether those streams be audio, subtitles or angles. There's simply no way around it. In this first part in our third series on scripting in DVD Studio Pro, we'll take a look at scripting subtitles--specifically scripting buttons so that viewers can not only enable and disable them in a menu, but also resume where they left off.
...Read More »
Scripting a Dynamic 'Play All' Button in DVD Studio Pro 3
Last week we took a look at one quick method for merging tracks in order to create a "play all" button in Apple DVD Studio Pro. But that method isn't right for all situations. So this time we'll take a look at a way to use scripting to add this functionality to your project. No, this isn't a regurgitation of the scripts explained in DVDSP's manual. That method is too time-consuming. Instead, we'll try a new technique that requires only three short scripts.
...Read More »
DVD Studio Pro Scripting, Part 4
We now know how to construct an interactive quiz in DVD Studio Pro, one that keeps track of a user's score and also sets a time limit using a GPRM-based counter function. But what if we want to make things a bit more interesting for the viewer, adding in scenes from our main program that demonstrate the correct answer without eating up any of the time allotted to the test itself? In this next installment in our interactive quiz series, we'll look at how to pause and resume a timer for just this purpose.
...Read More »
DVD Studio Pro Scripting, Part 2
In our first look at scripting in Apple's DVD Studio Pro, we explored methods for creating "view previous" buttons by storing information in our General Purpose Register Memories, or GPRMs. This time we take it a step further by setting values for multiple GPRMs and using math to keep track of these values as they build up. Why? Well, we're going to set up a quiz for our viewers that will allow us to keep score and dole out rewards and punishments as we deem appropriate. Sound difficult? It really isn't. Trust me.
...Read More »
DVD Studio Pro Scripting
For most, scripting in DVD Studio Pro is a complete mystery. It's not that it's complex by any means; it's just that there's a dearth of accessible documentation and a lack of real-world examples to provide a reference point for getting started. Nevertheless, scripting can be an essential part of your DVD presentation and can also save you hours of repetitive, redundant work. In short, if you create DVDs, you ought to know scripting.
...Read More »
AV-HS450 16+ Input HD/SD Switcher w/ dual screen MultiViewer
