The SST-2 header will be created automatically if the output timecodes text file is specified as SST..However, some modifications may be required. The following is a description of the information in the header with some of these modifications.
A description of these fields can be found in the SONIC ReelDVD®/Scenarist® User Guides and also in this Sonic Solution's provided document.
These header file look like this (Note that lines beginning with '#' are comments). Explanations as to how TitleFactory populates some of the information is provided on the comments lines.
st_format 2
SubTitle Subtitle_name
Display_Start non_forced
# TitleFactory determines the TV_Type by the image size. '????" will be populated if it cannot determine
if the images are in PAL or NTSC format.
TV_Type NTSC
Tape_Type NON_DROP
Pixel Area (2 479)
Display_Area (0 2 719 479)
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# The SST-2 format uses the E2, E1, PA, BG indicators for to denote the image
colors. These correspond to the TitleFactory colors as follows:
# E2: Outter Edge - Caption or Undercolor
# E1: Inner Edge Color - Stroke Color (outline color of the text)
# PA: Face - Text Color
# BG: Background Color
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
# The Color Index setting is the index of the (E2 E1 PA BG) colors on the
ReelDVD®/Scenarist® color palette. The color palette is show below.
# TitleFactory sets these to the color indexes of ReelDVD®/Scenarist® default color
palette if the colors match.
# If the ReelDVD®/Scenarist® color palette has changed then the color index values
on the Color line must be changed manually, since TitleFactory does not know about
the changes
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
# (E2 E1 PA BG)
Color (3 4 4 1)
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
# The Contrast sets the transparency of the (E2 E1 PA BG) colors.
# TitleFactory sets the E2, E1 contrast to 15 (opaque) if they are used.
# If unused, TitleFactory sets the E2, E1 contrast to 0 (transparent).
# TitleFactory always sets PA (text color) contrast to 15 (opaque).
# TitleFactory always sets the contrast of the background color (BG) to 0
(transparent).
# To obtain an antialias effect, the E1 contrast indicator can be set, for
example, to 7. This must be done manually.
#--------------------------------------------------------------#
# (E2 E1 PA BG)
Contrast (15 0 15 0)
E2 (0 0 0 = = =)
E1 (255 255 255 = = =)
PA (255 255 255 = = =)
BG (0 0 255 = = =)
Directory C:anything\anything
# END OF HEADER
The ReelDVD® default color palette is shown below. TitleFactory uses this information to determine the color index noted on the 'Color' lines described above.
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