Getting started with SVCD2DVD v2.0

Using Auto Layout feature

The Auto Layout feature automatically creates a DVD structure from you assets, based on location and names of the files:

Auto Layout has been added to the Assets Menu. Auto Layout creates TitleSets and adds Titles to those TitleSets based on the assets you have in the assets window. The logic is as follows:

• If assets come from different folders a new TitleSet will be created.
• Assets from the same folder will be in the same TitleSet if they have a common basename, otherwise a new TitleSet will be created.

For example, supposing you have the following files which you wanted to create a DVD from:

You would add them to the assets window:

Use the Auto Layout feature. And you would get the following:

That is a TitleSet for the files in "Bits and bobs" - as they have the same basename. A TitleSet made up of "movie1.mpg" and "movie2.mpg" from the "Stuff" folder - as they have the same basename AND a third TitleSet for "xfactor.mpg" from the "Stuff" folder as it's basename is not the same.

Once this is done and you are happy with the layout you can carry on as normal: create your menu or just process the DVD.

Summary

For files in the asset window, the following will happen when using Auto Layout:

- A unique VTS is created for each unique folder
- within each folder, files with the same basename will be added to the same VTS.
- If there are more than one basename "groups" in a folder, addition VTS will be created to house them.

Basname matching is as follows (for filenames without the extension):

A match is made between filenames which have character matches in all but one position. i.e:
movie2.mpg matches movie3.mpg
xmas_cd1_2004.mpg matches xmas_cd2_2004.mpg

Note: Quick DVD will also perform Auto Layout if no Titles have already been added to the DVD structure.

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