Scenarist BD Professional Plus The world standard for Blu-ray Disc authoring Scenarist is a comprehensive suite of powerful Blu-ray Disc creation tools that provide your business with everything you need to deliver stunning Blu-ray Disc titles. Scenarist BD Professional Plus UI Integrated Production Suite Production and creation efficiency is key to your business's profitability and creativity. The Scenarist Workgroup has been designed to provide businesses with an efficient and powerful production workflow, featuring an integrated Blu-ray Disc menu design, encoding, and authoring workflow that ensures you deliver the feature-rich Blu-ray Disc titles your clients demand. The Choice of Hollywood Scenarist BD is the choice of Hollywood's top Blu-ray Disc creation and production facilities due to its unique combination of powerful authoring and a tried-and-tested multiplexing engine that powers the majority of commercial Blu-ray Disc releases. Blu-ray 3D Support Author incredible Blu-ray 3D titles with 3D pop-up menus and subtitles, and emulate Blu-ray 3D titles instantly. Creative Control Create Blu-ray titles that set you apart you're your
production competition. Scenarist provides creative professionals with nonabstracted direct control over the creative behavior of their Blu-ray titles with unique cell-level access to the Blu-ray Disc command set. Advanced Interactivity and Pop-up Menu Control Distinguish your Bluray titles. Create an unlimited number of pop-up menu pages with animated buttons and fade, wipe, scroll in/out menu effects. Interactive Menu Design with Scenarist Designer PS A powerful Photoshop plug-in that puts Blu-ray Disc menu creation and design where it belongs - in the hands of the graphic designer - and enables an efficient and productive Blu-ray workflow free from menu layout errors. Advanced Blu-ray Disc Creation Scenarist Blu-ray Disc Creation provides you with unhindered access to the full Blu-ray Disc specification giving you the flexibility to distinguish your business and create blockbuster titles. Capabilities include BD-J support, BD-Live title management, picture-in-picture support, multi-page Blu-ray menus, distributed multiplexing, and seamless multi-story. Scenarist QC Interface Deliver with Scenarist QC Test and qualify your finished Blu-ray titles straight from hard drive using Scenarist QC, featuring unique debugging capabilities and playback logging. Custom Template Efficiency Scenarist delivers your client's Blu-ray Disc titles faster than any other Blu-ray Disc production system thanks to its unique menu creation and templating workflow.
Professional Support Scenarist offers comprehensive technical and software support, in-house training, an extensive library of FAQs and more. Features Scenarist Designer PS UI Scenarist Designer PS Photoshop Plug-in The ultimate menu creation workflow. Design, layout, and quickly export your menu and button designs from Adobe Photoshop directly to Scenarist. Scenarist Designer ensures your Blu-ray production workflow is fast and free from errors. Built-in Pop-up Menu Effects Editor Easily animate your pop-up menus using Scenarist's Effects Editor. Animate attributes like palettes (for fades), positioning, and cropping to set your titles apart from the competition. Independent In and Out Effects Specify different customized in and out animations for your pop-up menus to give your titles a unique look and feel. Button Effects and Sounds Create compelling transitions and dynamic menus with in and out effects and button sounds. Animated Buttons Bring your menus to life with animated buttons in normal, selected, and activated states. Multi-page Menu Creation
Create pop-up menus with multiple levels to allow viewers to drill down to detailed options and extra bonus content. 3D Pop-up Menus Author interactive Blu-ray 3D titles with pop-up menus that appear at a specified depth on top of your 3D video. 3D Subtitle Support Include Blu-ray 3D subtitles on your projects with individual depth offsets for each subtitle. 3D BD-J support Include customized and highly interactive 3D BD-J content on your Blu-ray 3D titles. Advanced Blu-ray 3D Emulation Emulate and de-bug your Blu-ray 3D titles straight from hard drive using Scenarist QC without having to burn a disc. Comprehensive Blu-ray Disc Specification Support With Scenarist, the only limit to your title features is your creativity. Scenarist provides support for 999 movie objects, 9 video angles, 32 button states (per button group), 256 button groups per page, 1001 titles, 2000 playlists, and 4096 GPR registers. Detailed Access to the Blu-ray Disc Specification Comprehensive and direct access to every aspect of the Blu-ray Disc specification including video titles, navigation commands, and the full complement of GPR registers. Support For All Next-Generation Video Codecs Comprehensive support for all three Blu-ray Disc video codecs: AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2. Comprehensive Subtitle Support Include up to 255 subtitle streams on your Blu-ray titles. Out-of-mux Menu Support Create 'always available' pop-up menus and special features by utilizing out-ofmux interactive graphics. Multi-Angle Video Support Create dynamic presentations with the full specification allowance of 9 simultaneous video streams. Slideshow Support
Create high definition browse-able or timed slideshows with un-interrupted audio. AACS Content Protection Support Secure your Blu-ray Disc titles with AACS Content Protection. Managed Copy Support Comply with the latest specification requirements for Managed Copy. Scenarist allows you to customize all on-disc parameters for Managed Copy, including Server URL and ISAN number. Advanced BD-J and BD-Live Support Drag-and-drop BD-J Creation Easily integrate BD-J content into your Blu-ray titles. The BD-J specification enables a range of additional interactive capabilities including access to player storage, bookmarking, and network features using BD-Live. BD-J Signing using Scenarist Safeguard An essential tool for BD-J authors, Scenarist Safeguard provides professionallevel JAR (BD-J) signing to ensure your BD-J content functions correctly on playback. BD-Live Support Integrate network-aware BD-Live applications into your Blu-ray titles to integrate features such as video downloads; RSS, twitter and facebook feeds; and much more. BD-Live Project Management With BD-Live, a title's content can change after your title has been released. Scenarist's Virtual File System (VFS) manager enables you to efficiently manage the on-line content used by the title's BD-Live applications. Efficiency and Productivity Tools Custom Template Workflow Save time by using previous projects as a template for new jobs. Scenarist's unique templating workflow speeds up title production significantly - a huge time saver for multi-disc box sets or multi-disc contracts for the same client that share a common navigation structure. Network Distributed Multiplexing Scenarist's multiplexing engine allows multiplexing tasks to be distributed across facility networks. Sharing multiplexing tasks across a network decreases multiplexing times and ensures authoring stations aren't tied up for hours multiplexing.
Blu-ray Disc Emulation Professional Blu-ray Disc Emulation with Scenarist QC Scenarist QC enables Blu-ray Disc authors and BD-J programmers to preview and debug titles directly from a computer's hard drive, saving significant time and resources compared to burning productions to BD-R for testing. Extensive Parameter and Event Logging Debug Blu-ray titles using Scenarist QC's event log to track GPRs, PSRs, NaviCmds, key events, stream info, UOP masking, user operations, HDMV and JVM playback info, and any captured errors, all using Scenarist QC's easy-toread color-coded log file. Log Data Filtering Use Scenarist QC's log data filtering to drill down to the most pertinent debug information by filtering out any unneeded debug messages. BD-J Debugging Scenarist QC's debug Java Virtual Machine (JVM) allows remote debugging from any BD-J compatible Java IDE like Eclipse or NetBeans. BD-J programmers are able to set breakpoints and source code 'watches' to enable them to step through code while testing BD-J applications in the context of the completed BD-ROM. NaviCmd Debug Support Scenarist QC allows you to breakpoint at specified NaviCmds. Using prebuilt or custom criteria, you can break on all, certain groups, or specific NaviCmds. At these breakpoints, playback of the project suspends, giving you time to inspect the QC log and analyze what has happened inside the player. Proven Technology Hollywood-standard Multiplexing Engine Scenarist's multiplexer - an essential component for reliable playback - is used to deliver the vast majority of commercially available Blu-ray titles. Specifications Video Support AVC (H.264) Main/High Profiles, Levels 3, 3.1, 3.2, 4, and 4.1 VC-1 Advanced Profile, Levels 2 and 3 MPEG-2 Primary Audio Support DTS DTS:X Object Oriented Audio
DTS-HD High Resolution Audio DTS-HD Master Audio Dolby Digital Dolby Digital Plus Dolby TrueHD Dolby Atmos (with v6.1) Linear PCM o 48kHz, 96kHz, and 192kHz o 16 bits, 20 bits, 24 bits per sample o 2, 4, 6 or 8 channels Secondary Audio Support (Picture-in-Picture) Dolby Digital Plus DTS-HD LBR (Low Bit rate) Interactive Audio Support (Button Sounds and BD-J applications) Linear PCM (48kHz, 16-bits, mono or stereo) Still Image Support PNG (256-color,.png) TIFF (.tif) JPG (.jpg) BMP (.bmp) Font Support Open Type Fonts (.otf) Subtitle Support Presentation Graphics Text subtitles Sony BDN subtitle format Menu Support Page In and Out Effects (Fade, Wipe, Scroll) Pop-up interactive menu graphics 'Always-on' interactive menu graphics Out-of-mux interactive graphics Animated buttons Button effects Button sounds Graphics Preparation Scenarist Designer PS (Photoshop Plug-in) Adobe Photoshop CC2014 support Automated 8-bit graphics optimization Automated PNG creation (from layered PSD files) XML export from Scenarist Designer PS to Scenarist BD
Specification Support BD Specification 1.0 Support Profile Support Standard Profile Support 1.0 Bonus View Profile Support 1.1 BD-Live Profile Support 2.0 999 Supported Movie Objects 9 video angles 999 Playitems per Playlist 32 Buttons per Button Overlap Group 256 Button Overlap Groups per page 1001 Titles 2000 Playlists 4096 General Purpose Registers Graphics stream support Slideshow support (MPEG-2, AVC and VC-1 still encoder included) Managed Copy Support BD-J Support BD-J API libraries for compiling BD-J code BD-J Object Creation Easily drag and drop BDJO and JAR files into Scenarist BD-J title multiplexing and playback Tutorials including BD-J sample code BD-J debug cycle (disc image) Third-party Java IDE support Blu-ray 3D Support MVC (Multi-view coding) video support 3D Clip and Playlist creation Pop-up menus with 3D depth offset Subtitles with 3D depth offset (Sony BDN 1.0) 3D BD-J support Profile 5 NaviCommand support Blu-ray 3D emulation (Scenarist QC) Content Protection AACS Support Output Options BDCMF Sony CMF (Cutting Master Format) Distributed network optimized multiplexing Blu-ray Disc Emulation (see Scenarist QC for details) Emulate from hard drive or BD-R Profile 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and 5.0 (Blu-ray 3D) emulation
Parameter and Event Logging (GPRs, PSRs, NaviCmds, key events, stream info, and UOPs) Log Data Filtering BD-J Debugging o NaviCmd Debug Support System Requirements Supported Operating Systems Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Vista (all Editions, 32-bit and 64-bit) Windows 7 (all Editions, 32- and 64-bit versions) Windows operating systems (above) also supported on Apple hardware using Bootcamp Minimum System Requirements Dual-Core 2GHz processor (multiple processors/cores and higher clock-speeds recommended) 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Series Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later Microsoft DirectX 9.0c CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive Monitor with 1600x1200 screen resolution (1920x1200 recommended) and 32-bit color support 800 MB of hard drive space on system drive for application and related files USB port for security dongle Recommended Graphics Adapters nvidia GeForce 8800 GT Note: nvidia GeForce boards with 512 MB (or more) memory should also deliver satisfactory playback performance. System Requirements for Blu-ray 3D production Note: Following additional requirements apply to Scenarist BD systems with the Blu-ray 3D authoring option. Supported Operating System: Windows 7 is required for Scenarist systems with the Blu-ray 3D option Recommended Graphics Adapters: For Scenarist systems with the Blu-ray 3D option the nvidia 3D Vision hardware is recommended. Please consult the nvidia website for their latest hardware supporting Blu-ray 3D playback