DVD Studio Pro is a powerful professional DVD authoring application that can be used to create DVDs for a wide range of applications. You can use DVD Studio Pro to build a simple DVD version of your sister’s wedding that you burn with a SuperDrive or a commercial DVD for a client that will be replicated 20,000 times. As you can imagine, DVD Studio Pro contains an impressive suite of tools to help you work with menu designs multiple audio tracks, subtitles, and other complex DVD features. Chances are that if you are a basic user, you will not need many of these complex tools.
Part One, How to Use DVD Studio Pro
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- Creating a new DVD Studio Pro project
At first you will have to click on the DVD Studio Pro icon in the dock. Or you can choose it from Finder. Finder -> Applications -> DVD Studio Pro
When the program opens, you may be prompted to choose application defaults. Step 1: Select Advanced configuration. Step 2: Select NTSC. Step 3: Select SD DVD or HD DVD. Step 4: Choose your defaulting language.
- Saving your Project
At first you have to save your project. Go to file then press the Save As. And then type the file name of the DVD Studio Pro Project.
- Creating a Menu
You can create a menu by using template. This template will be found in Palette. Every template can be viewed by dragging the grey Menu.
Now you should import any videos and any images which you want to use. You will see an Assets pane. Just press the Import button for import.
The Text Fields are for changing the text or you can delete the field totally. DVDSP's templates offer additional buttons by default than you will possibly require.
You can put images and clips in the Drop Zone. But at first you have added it to your project as an Asset. Take it from the Assets pane to the Drop Zone.
- More on Buttons
In the majority authored DVDs, you will find modify in color indicator after a button is pressed. For creating this, just click on the push button from the Menu bar. You can choose three states such as Activated, Selected and Normal. But remember that if you want to make out the color changes, you must set higher than 0 Opacity.
- Creating a Timeline
By dragging the asset of the Assets pane to your time line you can add video or audio to your DVD. For several videos you can put the clips right subsequent to one another. By clicking in the dim grey area over the video to put in a fresh Chapter you can separate the clips.
Part Two, Top 5 DVD Studio Pro Alternatives
- Sony Creative Software DVD Architect Pro
- Apple DVD Studio Pro (Mac, discontinued)
- Sonic DVDit Pro (formerly DVD Producer)
- Nero Video
- Mediachance DVD-lab PRO
1. Sony DVD Architect Pro 6.0
For DVD and blu-ray disc media DVD Architect Pro software is the perfect. It has many special features with multiple video angles, multiple languages, and special features.
DVD Architect Pro is clean, powerful layout, drag and drop interface and incredible authoring tools. You can operate it simply to build up active menu based Blu-ray Disc. You can also create multi-menu projects with slideshows, movies, and music compilations by Sony DVD Architect Pro.
2. DVD Studio Pro 4
DVD Studio Pro 3 had many attractive slide-show options and new menu-design. But the improvements in DVD Studio Pro 4 are fewer superficial and additional foundational.
You can work three authoring modes with DVD Studio Pro 4. Basic, Extended, and Advanced provide variable levels of control over the process of author.
You’ll feel comfortable with version 4 than DVD Studio Pro 2 or 3. The way DVD Studio Pro provided text has been changed.
3. Sonic DVDit Pro
Sonic Solutions is the leader in digital media software DVD authoring solution. Users can create rich Blu-ray Disc titles. You can go together the breathtaking realism of high-definition video content and can burn them to blu ray recordable discs.
DVDit Pro HD at last includes the absent piece of the HD delivery puzzle. It has powerful and easy to use HD authoring solution for Blu-ray Disc. This HD stands for the smoothest probable access point to the world of lofty definition.
4. Nero Video
To make our CDs and DVDs look more professional. Nero can design labels that you can paste directly onto your discs, and disc covers that you can slip inside a plastic CD/DVD case. If you have music stored on old vinyl records or tape cassettes that you want to preserve, Nero can not only help you transfer them to a CD, but Nero can also help you edit the sound quality to eliminate any hisses or pops that might mar the original recording. With Nero’s sound editing capabilities, you can even make your record or tape recordings sound as if they had been stored on CD in the first place.
Nero also comes with its own audio and video players; SO VOU can listen to CDs and catch full-length DVD movies on your computer. Lf you’ve captured your own home movies on video cassette or on a digital video camera, Nero can help you edit your video before burning it to a DVD. Not only can Nero help yon store, edit, and burn audio and video files to CDs and DVDs, but it can guide you through this process so you’ll spend more time getting work done and less time trying to figure out how to do it.
5. Mediachance DVD-lab PRO
Very few applications on the market are as good as Mediachance DVD-lab PRO. It grows with your knowledge and requirements. Where other applications usually need to study a long time for creating a simple project but Mediachance DVD-lab PRO need not. It has flexible DVD structure. You can get different aspect movies and with different audio channels. You will not be forced to use predefined DVD structure by Mediachance DVD-lab PRO. The main strongest point of Mediachance DVD-lab PRO is the complete flexibility of producing the DVD configuration.
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Apple DVD Studio Pro 4
Some household renovations add cosmetic niceties, such as a new decor. Other upgrades, such as a new roof, may not add curb appeal but are nevertheless important investments for the future. DVD Studio Pro 4 falls into the second category.
Last year’s DVD Studio Pro 3 offered some gorgeous new menu-design and slide-show options ( ; September 2004 ). The enhancements in DVD Studio Pro 4 are less cosmetic and more foundational. Because of the nature of DVD Studio Pro 4’s improvements, this upgrade, while excellent, may not be a must-buy for DVD Studio Pro 3.X users.
An (Almost) Familiar Face
DVD Studio Pro 4 looks and works the same way its predecessors do. You can work in any of three authoring modes—Basic, Extended, and Advanced—which provide varying levels of control over the authoring process.
If you’ve used DVD Studio Pro 2 or 3, you’ll feel at home with version 4, but your existing projects might not. Apple changed the way DVD Studio Pro renders text in version 4, and when you open a project from an earlier version, its menu text may require formatting adjustments.
Because of this annoyance, I don’t recommend switching to version 4 while you’re in the middle of a project you started with an earlier version. Indeed, if you have complex projects created in an earlier DVD Studio Pro version, it’s smart to keep the older version installed in case you need to burn additional copies of a project or modify your work.
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Unfortunately, Apple makes it difficult to retain this critical tie to your older projects. When you install DVD Studio Pro 4, the installer replaces any previous version. (This occurs with other members of the Final Cut Studio family, too.) It seems possible to retain the older version of DVD Studio Pro by renaming its application icon before installing version 4, though Apple discourages doing so. DVD Studio Pro 4’s product manager told me that the only Apple-recommended method of retaining an older version is to install the new version on a separate startup partition or hard drive—or on a different Mac.
Apple’s documentation should mention this. If you’ve created large projects in earlier DVD Studio Pro versions and you anticipate needing to access them again, plan your upgrade strategy carefully: either install DVD Studio Pro 4 on a separate startup drive or partition, or allocate time to tweak your old projects for DVD Studio Pro 4.
HD for the Few of Us
The most forward-looking addition to DVD Studio Pro 4 is support for high-definition (HD) video. DVD Studio Pro 4 supports HD from several perspectives. For one, you can encode HD video into standard-definition (SD) format, creating conventional discs that will play in all of today’s DVD players. This is similar to how iDVD 5 ( ; April 2005 ) handles HD video, and it’s the most sensible approach for content producers who are shooting in HD but need to deliver projects in a format that most people can actually watch.
If you care to tread the bleeding edge, you can create HD-DVDs by encoding your HD video in one of two compression formats: MPEG-2 or H.264. The latter format is the new MPEG-4 variant that’s supported by QuickTime 7. It’s also part of the HD-DVD specification, one of several competing standards for high-definition DVDs.
There’s just one problem: no current consumer DVD player can play back HD-DVDs. Manufacturers have shown prototypes at conventions, but you won’t find any players at your local Circuit City. If you burn an HD-DVD, there’s just one place you can play it: on a Power Mac G5 (not on a Power Mac G4 or any PowerBook) running OS X 10.4 and Apple’s DVD Player 4.6.
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High-definition DVD players may not be common today, but DVD producers who want to be prepared for the future can start now. You can shoot and edit in HD, and deliver mainstream DVDs in SD. And when HD becomes mainstream, you can swap out your SD assets for HD versions, and easily rebuild your project.
DVD Studio Pro 4 also makes it easy to create hybrid discs that contain the same content in both SD and HD formats. Current DVD players simply ignore the HD content. (Of course, HD video will take up a significant amount of space on a disc, making less available for SD content.)
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Preview of Tomorrow
About those HD discs that play only on certain Macs: they look spectacular. Viewed on an Apple Cinema HD Display, they provide an enticing look at the reach-out-and-touch-it clarity that tomorrow’s HD players will provide.
DVD Studio Pro 4 adds a welcome addition to its simulator mode, which lets you test menus and preview your DVD. If you connect a second Cinema Display to your Mac, you can have DVD Studio Pro route its simulator preview to that display. This provides a glorious full-screen preview of HD content.
You can also connect an analog monitor for previewing if you have a PowerBook, adapter, or video card with an S-Video output. And if you connect a Dolby decoder to your Mac, you can preview surround sound.
Fine-tuning
DVD Studio Pro 4 is more tightly integrated with Apple’s Motion than it used to be. If you use Motion to create motion menus and transitions, you can set markers in Motion 2 that tell DVD Studio Pro 4 where to loop a menu or switch a transition.
DVD Studio Pro 4 also adds a VTS (Video Title Set) editor. If you’re creating complex projects containing numerous scripts and menus, you can use the VTS editor to finely control how the DVD’s data is organized on the disc, thus minimizing delays when a user navigates the disc.
DVD Studio Pro 4 performed well in my tests, but it shares a bug with version 3: lengthy delays occur when you use the arrow keys to nudge the position of multiple buttons on a menu. Apple is aware of the problem but hasn’t announced a fix. (The problem persists in DVD Studio Pro 4.02, an update that fixes a variety of other bugs.)
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DVD Studio Pro 4 is a jaw-dropping value, offering features that even five-figure DVD-authoring systems can’t match. If you’re setting up your first DVD-authoring system, look no further.
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But should DVD Studio Pro 3 users upgrade? If high-definition video isn’t on your radar, consider sticking with version 3, especially if you don’t need the VTS editor, Surround Sound preview, and other version 4 enhancements. For producers of workaday DVDs—training videos, weddings, and other events—DVD Studio Pro 3 works just fine.
But for independent filmmakers working with high-definition video or Surround Sound, and for game developers creating complex scripts and interactivity, DVD Studio Pro 4 is a winner. It’s a full-featured tool for creating the most-complex DVDs—and a great way to prepare for the age of high-definition DVD.
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[ A Macworld Contributing Editor since 1984, Jim Heid has used DVD Studio Pro to author more than ten training DVDs, including the one that accompanies his book, The Macintosh iLife ‘05 (Peachpit Press/Avondale Media, 2005). ]
Apple DVD Studio Pro 4
Pros
- Forward-looking HD support
- Powerhouse authoring features
- Greatly enhanced Compressor application included
Cons
- Installation replaces earlier versions
- Old projects open with text glitches
- Slow performance when nudging multiple buttons
- Some minor documentation lapses