Sonic Debuts AuthorScript 5.5
January 12, 2004
Marin County, CA - Sonic Solutions has debuted Sonic AuthorScript 5.5 for the creation and burning of DVD, Video CD and CD Audio discs on PCs and CE devices.
Designed to enable developers of PC applications and CE devices to rapidly add optical media output, as well as video and audio playback, encoding and transcoding to their products, Sonic AuthorScript 5.5 adds new important features for photo slideshow creation and advanced DVD menu design and navigation.
Sonic AuthorScript offers the broadest array of capabilities for developers who wish to create and burn content to CD and DVD for their products and software applications:
Video -- AuthorScript converts multimedia files into DVD and VCD MPEG video streams, adds menus and burns a DVD or VCD.
Photo -- AuthorScript can convert photos and digital images into high-quality DVD and VCD slideshows and burn them to DVD or CD.
Music -- AuthorScript allows for the CD burning of downloaded music files and can be linked to any music download service.
Data archiving and backup -- AuthorScript is widely deployed for burning CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.
Consumer electronics -- AuthorScript CE provides DVD recording for set-top DVD recorders.
With its improved photo slideshow functionality, AuthorScript 5.5 is ideal for photo software developers who want to easily add DVD or CD creation functions to their photo editing and camera applications or photo kiosk manufacturers wishing to burn photo slideshows onto DVD or CD. Incorporating real-time video and audio software encoders and transcoders, AuthorScript is also an ideal addition to consumer and pro-sumer video capture and editing applications. For download music services, AuthorScript's secure CD burn engine is the perfect client-side complement for robust burning of purchased files to CD. For developers looking to add data backup capabilities to their products, AuthorScript also support all CD and DVD data formats along with multi-disc spanning.
AuthorScript 5.5 Key Features:
-- DVD remote control button interface -- Project authors now have full control over DVD navigation with menu and up/down/left/right buttons on the remote controller, including the ability to override AuthorScript's automatic button connection feature.
-- Multiple DVD styles per project -- Developers can now create applications that contain different styles for various DVD or VCD menus in a project. This allows end users to make discs that can be further customized to their needs and are easier to navigate.
-- JumpAnywhere technology -- Now available in both style-based menus and custom menus, JumpAnywhere enables the creation of sophisticated DVD navigation with a single menu button selection.
-- Photo slideshow presentation -- Project authors can now link directly to any slide in a slideshow, improving photo browsing flexibility. And AuthorScript 5.5 incorporates a new plug-in transitions SDK that greatly expands the number and types of inter-slide transitions available for slideshow playback.
-- Dolby Digital consumer encoding -- AC-3 encoding and 24-bit PCM audio support is now available from within AuthorScript, increasing high-quality audio options.
-- Enhanced security -- With stronger type and error checking, along with added protection against thread reentrancy, AuthorScript improves application security.
-- Edit-in-place -- New API calls provide access to AuthorScript's OpenDVD disc editing feature, enabling the content of +RW discs to be edited without requiring a full rip-and-burn of the entire disc, saving time and hard disk space.
The AuthorScript 5.5 SDK (Software Developer's Kit) is available immediately to developers looking to add DVD/CD creation capabilities to their applications.
For more information, visit
www.sonic.com
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