Setting up Trace
The first thing you need to do is setup your virtual player to imitate the system that you play your DVDs on. Click Setup in the trace window (or from the main menu, click Trace → Virtual Player Setup) and enter the data pertaining to your setup. This data includes:
· Preferred languages for menus, audio and subtitles (and extensions – you can usually leave these at “unspecified”)
· Video screen shape and for 4:3 TVs, whether you view in letterbox or pan and scan
· Parental management country code and level (usually leave blank)
· Preferred region codes
· Your system’s audio capabilities
· Whether your player holds the program number or chapter number in SPRM 7 (small test DVD available for download on the PgcEdit homepage).
Click Save to store these settings permanently. If you wish to make a temporary change, click Use.
This is straightforward. You may choose whether, in trace mode, to:
· Show played cells in preview: This will start the preview automatically when playing a cell (i.e. video is present and played). A shortcut for this is to tick the little box to the right of “Speed”. This will open the preview window and you may select whether to play the cell or fast forward through it etc. See Preview for more details.
· Playback Mode: Allows you to choose between real-time, with or without audio, or as fast as possible without audio.
· Skip preview of short cells (less than 1 second) – this stops annoying black screens from popping up all the time. However, it might be necessary to see them if you want to remove them from the DVD.
· The cell duration playback slider (at the bottom of the trace GUI) varies the length of time the preview will stay open for each cell and will play the cell for the time specified on the slider then automatically move on to the next cell. Set the slider to 1.0 seconds or more for this to take effect (set it all the way to the right to play the whole cell)
The other setup options are self-explanatory.