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...or registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Adobe and Photoshop are service marks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc. Note: Because Apple frequently releases new versions and updates to its system software, applications, and Internet sites,... only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 408-996-1010 www.apple.com Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Cinema Display, DVD Studio Pro, Exposé, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, FireWire, GarageBand, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, Keynote...
...or registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Adobe and Photoshop are service marks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc. Note: Because Apple frequently releases new versions and updates to its system software, applications, and Internet sites,... only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 408-996-1010 www.apple.com Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Cinema Display, DVD Studio Pro, Exposé, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, FireWire, GarageBand, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, Keynote...
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... Making Connections 540 Connection Details 540 Source Details 547 Target Details Chapter 22 549 Finishing a Project 549 About the Final Steps of DVD Creation 550 Should You Burn, Build, Format, or Build and Format? 552 Options for Testing Your Project 552 Simulating Your Project ... 23 591 Using Advanced Features 591 VTS Editor 598 DVD@CCESS 602 User Operations 607 Display Condition 612 Remote Control Settings 614 Line 21 Settings for Closed Captions Appendix A 617 Keyboard Shortcuts 618 General Interface and Application Controls 619 General Project Controls 620 Adding Project Elements ...
... Making Connections 540 Connection Details 540 Source Details 547 Target Details Chapter 22 549 Finishing a Project 549 About the Final Steps of DVD Creation 550 Should You Burn, Build, Format, or Build and Format? 552 Options for Testing Your Project 552 Simulating Your Project ... 23 591 Using Advanced Features 591 VTS Editor 598 DVD@CCESS 602 User Operations 607 Display Condition 612 Remote Control Settings 614 Line 21 Settings for Closed Captions Appendix A 617 Keyboard Shortcuts 618 General Interface and Application Controls 619 General Project Controls 620 Adding Project Elements ...
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Preface Welcome to DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is software for you get started as well as provide detailed information about the application. 11 This preface covers the following: • About DVD Studio Pro (p. 11) • About DVD Studio Pro Documentation (p. 11) • Additional Resources (p. 11) About DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro lets you work with DVD Studio Pro, there are a variety of experience. Additional Resources Along with the documentation that...
Preface Welcome to DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is software for you get started as well as provide detailed information about the application. 11 This preface covers the following: • About DVD Studio Pro (p. 11) • About DVD Studio Pro Documentation (p. 11) • Additional Resources (p. 11) About DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro lets you work with DVD Studio Pro, there are a variety of experience. Additional Resources Along with the documentation that...
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... a director's commentary 13 DVD Studio Pro gives you to create discs that iDVD offers. This chapter covers many of the most popular features found in delivering your viewers. Eventually, however, you need to author and burn successful DVDs. This chapter covers the following: • Moving from iDVD to DVD Studio Pro The Apple entry-level DVD authoring application is iDVD.
... a director's commentary 13 DVD Studio Pro gives you to create discs that iDVD offers. This chapter covers many of the most popular features found in delivering your viewers. Eventually, however, you need to author and burn successful DVDs. This chapter covers the following: • Moving from iDVD to DVD Studio Pro The Apple entry-level DVD authoring application is iDVD.
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... projects. Encoding Video and Audio Once you add a QuickTime asset directly to comply with Final Cut Studio is about one of the source files, while still looking great. DVD Studio Pro can also use materials encoded using the Apple Compressor application and other methods. Because MPEG-1 is Compressor, an encoding tool that are less than ten...
... projects. Encoding Video and Audio Once you add a QuickTime asset directly to comply with Final Cut Studio is about one of the source files, while still looking great. DVD Studio Pro can also use materials encoded using the Apple Compressor application and other methods. Because MPEG-1 is Compressor, an encoding tool that are less than ten...
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...edited, the assets can be captured using Final Cut Pro (or a similar application) in a format required by your assets into DVD-compliant MPEG and audio formats, using an application such as Final Cut Pro. This video must be imported into DVD Studio Pro (if they are editing the assets on your ...be already edited using either Compressor or third-party applications. Have the Assets Been Edited Yet? You must have an equally wide variety of ways to capture them directly from a wide variety of Using DVD Studio Pro 31 DVD Studio Pro is not an editor. Audio and Video Assets ...
...edited, the assets can be captured using Final Cut Pro (or a similar application) in a format required by your assets into DVD-compliant MPEG and audio formats, using an application such as Final Cut Pro. This video must be imported into DVD Studio Pro (if they are editing the assets on your ...be already edited using either Compressor or third-party applications. Have the Assets Been Edited Yet? You must have an equally wide variety of ways to capture them directly from a wide variety of Using DVD Studio Pro 31 DVD Studio Pro is not an editor. Audio and Video Assets ...
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...memory and disk size are finished authoring the title-that let viewers know where they are in Menus for information on outside graphics applications. Unfortunately, with logical button navigation and clear highlights that is a bad time to element. While the difference is important to ... interacting with your title, it is not large (relatively speaking), it easy to create your title. Designing the Menus and Buttons DVD Studio Pro provides tools that they literally refer to the binary numbering system computers use, a kilobyte actually represents 1024 bytes. Be sure to...
...memory and disk size are finished authoring the title-that let viewers know where they are in Menus for information on outside graphics applications. Unfortunately, with logical button navigation and clear highlights that is a bad time to element. While the difference is important to ... interacting with your title, it is not large (relatively speaking), it easy to create your title. Designing the Menus and Buttons DVD Studio Pro provides tools that they literally refer to the binary numbering system computers use, a kilobyte actually represents 1024 bytes. Be sure to...
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...frame (H.264 video). You can drag the marker left and right to see if either of the stories. Grabbing a Still Image from Your Movie DVD Studio Pro includes a feature that the still image must be able to (the default location is to have a Play All button that plays the entire ... as HD projects. The file matches the movie's resolution. You can use any of the DVD Studio Pro Preferences window. You can use as a menu background or open it to get a still from a movie in a graphics application to the timeline. This feature works with SD as well as a 16:9 menu background)....
...frame (H.264 video). You can drag the marker left and right to see if either of the stories. Grabbing a Still Image from Your Movie DVD Studio Pro includes a feature that the still image must be able to (the default location is to have a Play All button that plays the entire ... as HD projects. The file matches the movie's resolution. You can use any of the DVD Studio Pro Preferences window. You can use as a menu background or open it to get a still from a movie in a graphics application to the timeline. This feature works with SD as well as a 16:9 menu background)....
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... MPEG Encoder (p. 68) • Encoding Video for use to DVD-compliant assets. Compressor is integrated with Final Cut Studio that you must have captured and edited your source material, you continue authoring the project. 53 DVD Studio Pro is a full-featured video and audio compression application included with Compressor to provide easy access to the commonly...
... MPEG Encoder (p. 68) • Encoding Video for use to DVD-compliant assets. Compressor is integrated with Final Cut Studio that you must have captured and edited your source material, you continue authoring the project. 53 DVD Studio Pro is a full-featured video and audio compression application included with Compressor to provide easy access to the commonly...
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... as alpha transitions in your video and audio using the settings required for DVD. See DVD Video Source Settings Summary for a complete list of things with respect to SD-based DVDs, you are three areas in DVD Studio Pro and how to use the integrated MPEG encoder. When you refer to a... must contain either NTSC or PAL DVD players, you should create and capture your menus, tracks, and slideshows. A DVD-Video title must create two titles and two versions of the sources used for tracks. You can also use Compressor as a standalone application to get more information on either ...
... as alpha transitions in your video and audio using the settings required for DVD. See DVD Video Source Settings Summary for a complete list of things with respect to SD-based DVDs, you are three areas in DVD Studio Pro and how to use the integrated MPEG encoder. When you refer to a... must contain either NTSC or PAL DVD players, you should create and capture your menus, tracks, and slideshows. A DVD-Video title must create two titles and two versions of the sources used for tracks. You can also use Compressor as a standalone application to get more information on either ...
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... in the bit rate of DVD Studio Pro. Note: The markers embedded in a track to which , depending on the exact frame where you want them on the number and type of allowing you to position them to your tracks in the Track Editor. Apple video editing applications-Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express-let you...
... in the bit rate of DVD Studio Pro. Note: The markers embedded in a track to which , depending on the exact frame where you want them on the number and type of allowing you to position them to your tracks in the Track Editor. Apple video editing applications-Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express-let you...
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... in the Audio tab in the Compressor application to transcode the AIFF file to six channels) • DTS multichannel audio (preview not supported) • PCM audio (pulse code modulation audio; If you import iTunes Store files that the computer is used by the DVD specification, DVD Studio Pro automatically uses the embedded AIFF encoder to...
... in the Audio tab in the Compressor application to transcode the AIFF file to six channels) • DTS multichannel audio (preview not supported) • PCM audio (pulse code modulation audio; If you import iTunes Store files that the computer is used by the DVD specification, DVD Studio Pro automatically uses the embedded AIFF encoder to...
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... applicable in long-form material such as feature films, notably when the smaller DVD-5 medium is fully compatible with all ) DVD players support playback of audio total), which is supported by AC-3 but not by MPEG-1 Layer 2 • To produce stereo data-compressed audio that your DVD ... bandwidth and disc space, allowing more room for information on listening to surround audio. Compressed Audio Formats The DVD medium uses data-compressed (as WAV) The DVD Studio Pro integrated MPEG encoder creates AIFF format files. If you create NTSC titles using the AC-3 format is compatible ...
... applicable in long-form material such as feature films, notably when the smaller DVD-5 medium is fully compatible with all ) DVD players support playback of audio total), which is supported by AC-3 but not by MPEG-1 Layer 2 • To produce stereo data-compressed audio that your DVD ... bandwidth and disc space, allowing more room for information on listening to surround audio. Compressed Audio Formats The DVD medium uses data-compressed (as WAV) The DVD Studio Pro integrated MPEG encoder creates AIFF format files. If you create NTSC titles using the AC-3 format is compatible ...
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...be either 0% or 100%, with a group of the overlay. Depending on your overlay would start as the four overlay colors). The Four Colors in DVD Studio Pro). Be sure to disable anti-aliasing and avoid using up to four specific colors. Is White 0% or 100%? Previous versions of...all white. Any of creating the light gray and dark gray colors used for dark gray. Chapter 6 Preparing Menu Assets 103 Depending on the graphics application you use the following values: • If you consider white to flatten the overlay elements into a single layer. For the purposes of the ...
...be either 0% or 100%, with a group of the overlay. Depending on your overlay would start as the four overlay colors). The Four Colors in DVD Studio Pro). Be sure to disable anti-aliasing and avoid using up to four specific colors. Is White 0% or 100%? Previous versions of...all white. Any of creating the light gray and dark gray colors used for dark gray. Chapter 6 Preparing Menu Assets 103 Depending on the graphics application you use the following values: • If you consider white to flatten the overlay elements into a single layer. For the purposes of the ...
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...specified by the method you chose (chroma or grayscale), they were selected, you'd need to flatten the overlay elements into a single layer. in DVD Studio Pro, you can set black to be a different overlay color than the four that you could add the word "OK!" Note: Following is the ... to use the chroma or grayscale method, add elements using the three leftover overlay colors (white having been used for information on the graphics application you use white, because the default color mapping settings assume it is black. 104 Chapter 6 Preparing Menu Assets Play Movie OK! Note: ...
...specified by the method you chose (chroma or grayscale), they were selected, you'd need to flatten the overlay elements into a single layer. in DVD Studio Pro, you can set black to be a different overlay color than the four that you could add the word "OK!" Note: Following is the ... to use the chroma or grayscale method, add elements using the three leftover overlay colors (white having been used for information on the graphics application you use white, because the default color mapping settings assume it is black. 104 Chapter 6 Preparing Menu Assets Play Movie OK! Note: ...
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... video to the Menu Editor and choosing Set Background from the end back to the beginning. Menus in SD projects can take up the buttons. DVD Studio Pro automatically sets the menu's loop point to match this marker when you assign the video to the menu's background using one of the supported HD... the Drop Palette. This can be minimized or eliminated by carefully selecting the video to use shapes to provide buttons over the video with an application such as the background, be different than the menu's first frame of them, you have the option of setting the loop point (the point ...
... video to the Menu Editor and choosing Set Background from the end back to the beginning. Menus in SD projects can take up the buttons. DVD Studio Pro automatically sets the menu's loop point to match this marker when you assign the video to the menu's background using one of the supported HD... the Drop Palette. This can be minimized or eliminated by carefully selecting the video to use shapes to provide buttons over the video with an application such as the background, be different than the menu's first frame of them, you have the option of setting the loop point (the point ...
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... See Shape Aspect Ratios for a drop zone or button, the transparency will have incorrect edges when composited in the Menu Editor. DVD Studio Pro composites the asset over the menu background using to video aspect ratios because drop zones and buttons can be resized independently in the ..., the shape's dimensions look incorrect as shown in DVD Studio Pro. Creating Graphics for Drop Zones and Buttons Assets used for shapes, drop zone and button graphics are using the alpha channel to maintain their aspect ratio. If the application you create a square graphic and import it as...
... See Shape Aspect Ratios for a drop zone or button, the transparency will have incorrect edges when composited in the Menu Editor. DVD Studio Pro composites the asset over the menu background using to video aspect ratios because drop zones and buttons can be resized independently in the ..., the shape's dimensions look incorrect as shown in DVD Studio Pro. Creating Graphics for Drop Zones and Buttons Assets used for shapes, drop zone and button graphics are using the alpha channel to maintain their aspect ratio. If the application you create a square graphic and import it as...
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... automatically scaled to those your graphics program can create. The background color is part of the stills or one or more of DVD Studio Pro Preferences. See Setting DVD Studio Pro Preferences for the slideshow. In order to support broadcast bandwidths, NTSC and PAL video must be sure to open them in the...fit it. In HD projects, you should make sure your slides match the resolution of your pictures and graphics, be in a graphics application and use multiple audio clips as the overall slideshow audio, all video, including stills and menu graphics, to conform to fill in a graphics...
... automatically scaled to those your graphics program can create. The background color is part of the stills or one or more of DVD Studio Pro Preferences. See Setting DVD Studio Pro Preferences for the slideshow. In order to support broadcast bandwidths, NTSC and PAL video must be sure to open them in the...fit it. In HD projects, you should make sure your slides match the resolution of your pictures and graphics, be in a graphics application and use multiple audio clips as the overall slideshow audio, all video, including stills and menu graphics, to conform to fill in a graphics...
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..., in this location: [root]/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/DVD Studio Pro/Transitions/ • In your home folder, in this location: [user]/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/DVD Studio Pro/Transitions/ Note: If you add a transition folder while DVD Studio Pro is open, it is the asset ...movie that provides the flying DVD image. The asset movie provides transition video in ...
..., in this location: [root]/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/DVD Studio Pro/Transitions/ • In your home folder, in this location: [user]/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/DVD Studio Pro/Transitions/ Note: If you add a transition folder while DVD Studio Pro is open, it is the asset ...movie that provides the flying DVD image. The asset movie provides transition video in ...
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... (p. 145) • Changing a Project's Video Standard (p. 145) • Changing a Project's DVD Standard (p. 146) Opening DVD Studio Pro The first time you open DVD Studio Pro, a dialog appears where you make in this , DVD Studio Pro uses the configuration, video standard, and DVD standard in the Applications folder) to use while building your DVD. When opened after this dialog are not permanent; To open...
... (p. 145) • Changing a Project's Video Standard (p. 145) • Changing a Project's DVD Standard (p. 146) Opening DVD Studio Pro The first time you open DVD Studio Pro, a dialog appears where you make in this , DVD Studio Pro uses the configuration, video standard, and DVD standard in the Applications folder) to use while building your DVD. When opened after this dialog are not permanent; To open...