Sonic sent out a press release this morning, announcing the release of Scenarist Designer PS 2.0. This new plug-in lets you design menus for HD DVD and Blu-ray in Adobe Photoshop and then output them to a format compatible with Sonic's Scenarist software.
Designing menus for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles is very different from DVD-Video. Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 is unique in that it returns the control of menu component creation to the professional graphic designer who can create menus for high-definition titles using the industry-standard Adobe Photoshop. By basing the menu-design process on familiar concepts such as using layer sets to group button elements, Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 lets designers stay focused on the visual aspects of their work without worrying about the details of conversion for various output formats. Once a menu's background and button-state graphics are defined, the export from Photoshop of a compatible menu for one or more target formats is handled automatically via the Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 plug-in, saving hours of authoring work for each project. Offering flexible control and customization of dithering options for HDMV's RGBA palettes, Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 ensures that menu graphics are of the highest-image quality.
Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 is available now for both the Mac and Windows platforms. More information can be found on Sonic's website.
