MacroSystem Arabesk User Manual
Arabesk
Version 6
Manual
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Table of contents
1. General information........................................................................4
1.1 Congratulations! .....................................................................4
1.2 Installation .........................................................................4
1.3 Starting Arabesk 6 ...................................................................4
1.4 What is Arabesk 6 ...................................................................4
1.5 What is new in Arabesk 6..............................................................4
1.6 The Basic, Silver, and Gold Editions .....................................................5
2. Reference section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 Clarity is very important for the main menu ................................................7
2.2 Environment – It's all about settings .....................................................7
2.2.1 Assistant....................................................................7
2.2.2 Disc projects ...............................................................10
2.2.3 Settings ...................................................................11
2.2.4 Miscellaneous ..............................................................12
2.3 Preparing – A good preparation is everything .............................................12
2.3.1 Movies ....................................................................12
2.3.2 Chapters...................................................................13
2.4 Creating – be creative ...............................................................14
2.4.1 Menu templates .............................................................14
2.4.2 Main and chapter menu .......................................................15
2.4.2.1 Designing menus with the design window .................................15
2.4.2.2 Designing menus with the toolbar ........................................16
2.4.2.3 Control (Main menu)...................................................17
2.5 Finish – Last but not least ............................................................21
2.5.1 Quality ....................................................................21
2.5.2 Preview....................................................................22
2.5.3 Burn disc ..................................................................22
2.5.4 Export disc .................................................................23
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3. The info box – everything at a glance ........................................................23
4. Arabesk and Power Key option – does it work?................................................25
5. Quick guide: How do I create a disc manually? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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1. General information
1.1 Congratulations!
Congratulations on the purchase of the software Arabesk 6.
We thank you for your confidence and trust you have shown
us, and we hope that the product will meet your expectations.
This manual will explain the steps necessary to burn a DVD or
a Blu-ray. The manual is for all Casablanca users working with
Bogart SE.
Feel free to contact us if you have additional questions or to
give us suggestions for improving the product. Please contact
us at the address below. Whenever you contact us, please
have your customer number or the serial number of your device at hand so that we can help you more quickly.
MacroMotion GmbH
Werftstraße 193, 24143 Kiel, Germany
E-mail: info@macrosystem.de
Up-to-date information on MacroSystem products can be
found on the Internet:
www.macrosystem.de (Germany)
www.macrosystem.us (North America)
If you have specific technical queries, please contact your local
dealer.
You may also visit our Internet Support Forum:
www.macrosystem.de/forum. In the forum, you will be able
to find assistance, step-by-step directions, and tips and tricks
for MacroSystem hardware and software products.
1.2 Installation
Tip: While Arabesk 6 is being installed, you may hear noise
from the drive.
Arabesk 6 cannot be installed as a demo version.
If you install Arabesk 6 without activating it, you will not be
able to start Arabesk 6, and when you try, you will get a message to tell you as much.
1.3 Starting Arabesk 6
To start the Arabesk 6 program, you should go to the main
menu of Bogart SE. When Arabesk 6 has been installed, you
will find an Arabesk button in the Finish menu. You start the
Arabesk 6 program, by clicking on this button with the left
trackball button.
1.4 What is Arabesk 6?
Arabesk 6 is an add-on product from our company that
enables you to burn your projects to CD, DVD or Blu-ray, or
to save them as ISO images on USB or SATA storage media.
Depending on the Bogart SE Edition (Basic, Silver or Gold),
you may work at up to 10 disc projects at the same time,
in which you can partition your movies in chapters to make
them directly accessible during play, burn several movies on
a single disk, also in different quality levels, or create main
and chapters menus for your discs. A multitude of possibilities
and templates is at your disposal to create your disc menus.
With Arabesk 6, you may also create animated disc menus as
well as multi-angle discs (discs with movie(s) that have been
recorded from several viewing angles).
In addition, you also have the possibility to verify your work
before burning a disc, thanks to the preview function.
In order to install Arabesk 6 on your Casablanca device, it
must be equipped with at least 1 GB RAM as well as Bogart
SE 4.5c or higher. Arabesk 6 can be fully used from Bogart SE
5 onwards.
To install Arabesk 6, please insert the appropriate software
CD/DVD in the drive of your device. You should now go to the
Settings menu item in Settings. You should then click on the
System button, followed by the ‘Install product’ button. This
will open the ‘Install Product’ dialog window (the hour glass
may be displayed instead of the mouse pointer for a short
time, until the inserted CD/DVD has been read). It has a list
with the products that are already installed on your system
as well as the products included on the inserted CD/DVD.
Arabesk 6 can also be found here. Select Arabesk 6 and click
on activate. The installation starts, as can be seen from a
progress bar. A short while later, a number block appears. This
is used to enter the activation code you received from your
dealer. The product will then be active.
1.5 What is new in Arabesk 6?
(if you are upgrading from Arabesk 5)
The user interface of Arabesk 6 has been completely reworked
and redesigned to make it clearer. We thought it was important to make it easier to operate the program and introduced
a type of check system for the creation of discs. It is now also
possible to create animated main and/or chapter menus for
Blu-ray discs, optionally with sound, with a duration of up to 5
minutes, and to create several disc menus in parallel, without
losing the previous main or chapter menus.
Besides this, there is a whole slew of smaller innovations that
are discussed in this manual.
1.6 Basic, Silver and Gold Edition
What is the functionality of…
The different versions of the Bogart SE operating system also
offer you different possibilities to design your discs in Arabesk.
With the Basic Edition you can create your discs via the Assistant, as well as make settings for the burning speed, play a
burned DVD, delete a CD-RW or DVD-RW and reset Arabesk 6
to its factory settings.
With the Silver Edition and Arabesk 6, it is also possible to create custom designs for your discs without using the Assistant.
Creating chapter menus as well as working on several disc
projects is only possible with the Gold Edition.
Other differences between the editions are pointed out in the
appropriate sections.
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2. Reference
2.1 Clarity is very important for the main
menu
The main menu of Arabesk 6 has been reorganized and is now
similar to the main menu of Bogart SE. The individual menu
items are now grouped under 4 parent menu items, namely
Environment, Prepare, Shaping and Finish. This order corresponds to the usual sequence of editing steps.
In the title bar of the menu, one sees no longer just the name
of Arabesk 6, but also the currently selected resolution, such
as SD for the Video DVD target format. The target format that
was not selected, is more pale. A short while after you hold
the mouse pointer on the resolution indicator, a help text will
appear to indicate the currently selected resolution or target
format. When you click with the left trackball button on the
resolution, you will have the option to change the target format
and therefore also the resolution.
If the RenderBooster is inserted and recognized, this will be
indicated in the title bar, to the left of the resolution.
If the RenderBooster is inserted, but not active, its indicator
will be paler and in brackets. If the RenderBooster is active, the
indicator will become white and the brackets will disappear.
When you want to use the RenderBooster, go in Arabesk 6
under Environment to Settings and place a checkmark next to
‘Use RenderBooster’.
(for example, in the picture above, the RenderBooster is being
used and HD (Blu-ray) has been selected as the target format)
2.2 Environment – It's all about settings
In the Environment menu, you have the option of letting our
Assistant guide you through the creation of a menu (more
about the Assistant in the corresponding chapter).
Here, you will also find the project management of the different
disc projects you are able to work on in parallel with Arabesk
6, as well as settings you can make across the board, i.e. with
respect to all disc projects. Information about drive and storage medium can also be accessed here. If several drives are
connected, you will be able to access information about every
drive and you will have the ability to select the desired drive.
2.2.1 Assistant
When you use the assistant, it will conveniently guide you
through all editing necessary or optional steps for creating a
disc.
At each editing step, there is the possibility to go to the next
editing step by clicking on Next or to return to the previous
editing step by clicking on Back.
If a choice is required in an editing step in order to burn a
movie on a disc, the Next button will only become active when
the corresponding setting has been made.
In case you are not using the assistant, click on the Cancel
button to return to the Arabesk 6 main menu. After clicking on
the Cancel button, a confirmation prompt will open to confirm
that you do indeed wish to end the assistant and reject the
settings you have made so far.
The Yes button will end the assistant, whereas the No button
will take you back to the last editing step you performed with
the assistant. This prompt will appear every time you click the
Cancel button, regardless of the editing step of the assistant
that is currently active.
On the right, there is a preview window with the current view of
the main menu for the selected disc project.
In the bottom part of the screen, there is an info box that
shows you the current status of the disc project at a glance.
Please refer to the "The info box – everything at a glance"
chapter for more information.
There is, of course, a button to open and close the drive,
and also a button , to return to the Bogart SE main menu.
If your device has two drives or if you have connected a second, external, drive to your device, you will be asked which
drive should be opened before the drive will open.
When the assistant starts, a dialog box will allow you to select
the format you want to use for your disc, Video DVD or Blu-ray.
Click on the corresponding button in the dialog box to make
your choice.
Once you have selected the target format of your disc, you will
be able to use the ‘Select film’ button to select the project you
want to burn on your disc.
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When you have selected your project, it will appear in a selectable text field in the dialog window (in the picture below,
this field contains ‘Vacation 2012’.
Click on this field to change the name of the project which will
later be shown in the main menu of the disc, next to the button
for the corresponding movie. To this end, the familiar ‘Input
text’ dialog box will appear.
set chapter marks, you may choose between ‘Every 5 minutes’
and ‘Every 10 minutes’.
Tip: If a movie is shorter than five minutes or if you do not have
the Silver or Gold Edition, the assistant will not allow you to set
chapters and this option will be omitted.
If you have set chapter marks, the following editing step will
allow you to use a checkmark to determine if you want to set
a chapter menu for the disc and what names the individual
scenes should get.
The Quality editing step allows you to select between the
following quality levels: Low, Medium, High and ‘Very high’ (the
‘Very high’ quality level is only available in the Gold Edition).
In order to determine the expected storage capacity needed
for the disc, you will also be able to select the reference storage medium using the corresponding selection button.
The editing step ‘Chapters’ is used to define chapter marks
by setting a checkmark. Should you not wish to set chapter
marks, just leave the checkmark at ‘None’. Should you wish to
A choice can be made between the names of the corresponding scenes or a sequential numbering of the chapters.
In case you wish to create a chapter menu and you have set
the checkmark accordingly next to Yes, the ‘Choose template’
button will also become active, as well as the buttons to name
the chapters. Click on the ‘Choose template’ button to open a
new dialog window, ‘Load menu template...’, in which you will
be able to select a template for the chapter menu.
The chapter menu selected in the list is also displayed in a
preview window at the right-hand side of the ‘Load menu
template...’ dialog window. Confirm your selection with the OK
button. You will now be returned to the assistant and be able
to continue editing your disc.
Tip: A chapter menu can only be created using the predefined
templates.
The next dialog window will allow you to create a button for
the previously added movie, to represent it in the main menu
of the disc.
Click on the ‘Select scene image’ button to do this. You will
now get to the menu for selecting button patterns, and will be
able to select the scene containing the desired pattern and
then confirm the selection by clicking on OK.
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Should you want to add another project, simply click on the
button ‘Choose another film’. When you have selected an
additional movie, it will appear together with the project name
in a text box in the dialog window. Click on this field to change
the name of the project or the movie which will later be shown
in the main menu of the disc, next to the button for the corresponding movie. When you click the Continue button after
adding another movie in this editing step, you will be taken to
the Quality editing step again which will allow you to select the
appropriate settings for the movie you just added. After this,
you will also be able to set chapter markers, to create a chapter menu, to create a menu button for the movie in the main
menu of the disc and to add additional movies.
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You will now be able to select a pattern from the scene you
have selected, by clicking on the Position button and then
rolling through the scene using the trackball.
Once you arrived at the desired spot in the scene, click the
left button of your trackball. Should you wish to make a more
precise choice, you should use the and buttons in
order to advance or go back frame by frame in the movie, until
the pattern you wish to use for the button has appeared. Click
now on the OK button to confirm your selection and return to
the assistant.
In the next step, the assistant will ask you if you want to burn
an additional project (i.e. another movie) on the disc. If that is
not the case, the Next button will take you to the next editing
step.
If you did not add another movie and you click on the Continue
button, the next editing step will allow you to set a checkmark
to indicate if the main menu must first be shown after the disc
has been inserted in a player, or if the first movie should start
to play immediately.
Once you have made your choice, click on the Continue button
to go to the next editing step of the assistant.
You are now in the ‘Menu creation’ editing step.
Here, you will be able to use the ‘Select template’ button to
create your main menu. Clicking on this button will open the
‘Load menu template...’ dialog window. Also here, there are
numerous templates from Arabesk 6 at your disposal, as well
as menu templates that you have created yourself which you
have already saved.
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