Sonic Scenarist
Is this authoring tool an IDE or does it actually create the playlist, markup and js through a toolset?
In other words, can someone with very very little understanding of xml and js author advanced HD DVDs with this tool?
I'm trying to determine who their audience is.
Currently, Sonic's tool only does the muxing of the audio and video streams and creates the playlist from the advanced content you have imported into the program. It does not have any capability of creating or editting the markup or script files. That is all done externally. I don't believe their intentions at this time are to intergrate that into the software. The biggest downside to Sonic right now is that their previewer does not conform 100% to the iHD spec. I find myself burning a lot of DVDs to make sure what I wrote will work in a real player.