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DVD Studio Pro

Developer(s)

Apple Inc.

Stable release

4.2.1 / November 14, 2007

Operating system

Mac OS X

Type

DVD Authoring

License

Proprietary

Website

Apple: DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple Inc. to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats. This streamlines the production workflow and reduces overhead.

History

Apple bought Astarte’s DVDirector in 2000, re-releasing it as DVD Studio Pro in 2001. Version 1.5, still based on this original code, was released in April 2002. In the mean time, Apple had acquired Spruce Technologies in 2001, and was busy retooling the DVD authoring package that came with that acquisition (DVD Maestro), and in August 2003, Apple released DVD Studio Pro 2. This new version was basically a completely new application, with a totally new interface. Since then, the program has grown to be the primary prosumer software DVD creation package, Sonic Scenarist being the worldwide industry standard for professional DVD authoring.

In April 2005, Apple updated DVD Studio Pro to support authoring HD content. DVD Studio Pro 4 allows for the burning of HD DVD content to both standard DVDs and HD DVD media (even though no HD DVD burners were currently available for Macintosh). For playing back HD DVD content burnt to a standard DVD, Apple requires a PowerPC G5, Apple DVD Player v4.6, and Mac OS X v10.4 or later.

In January 2006 Apple stopped offering DVD Studio Pro as a stand-alone product, only selling it as part of the Final Cut Studio suite. The 4.0.3 update, released in the same month, upgrades the program to the finalized HD DVD 1.0 specification. It also supports the native H.264 specification. The 4.2 update, which shipped with the Final Cut Studio 2 release, was simply a compatibility update and did not add any major new features.

See also a release history in context with the rest of Final Cut Studio.

Features

DVD Studio Pro has a graphical ‘map’ view, which shows all the menus, tracks and scripts in the project as color-coded tiles, with the connections between them as arrows. New menus, layered menus, scripts and slideshows can be created from this view and arranged; and the item that will play first on the DVD can be set. Assets (i.e. photos, sounds and Motion projects) are imported into the asset manager and can then be dragged and dropped into one or more places within the project (creating a link to the asset rather than duplicating it). Menus can be created with templates, or pre-made buttons, and with the help of dynamic guidelines they can be kept in a grid arrangement.

Other features include:

Subtitle creation

Implementation of CSS and Macrovision copy protection for SD DVD’s

Editing of GPRM and SPRM registers

Disabling certain functions on particular menus

Creating multiple language versions of a menu

Creating multiple versions (’stories’) of a video project for example, a director’s cut

DVD@CCESS feature for web links in menus

A range of transition effects to set between menus.

Workflow

The video project is typically sent from Final Cut Pro to Compressor, where it can be converted into the DVD MPEG-2 format with Dolby Digital (ac3) or AIFF sound. Menus with motion graphics can be created in Motion. It is possible to set the menu’s loop point in either Motion or DVD Studio Pro; likewise it is possible to define chapters within either Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro. The menus and the encoded video assets are imported into the application and the menu system is constructed; afterwards it can be simulated in a mock DVD player interface. The final VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS directory for the DVD can be created using the ‘Build’ feature. The ‘Format’ function takes this directory and writes it to a disc or disk image. Alternatively, a sample DVD can be burnt to disc in one step.

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Final Cut Studio

Major applications

Final Cut Pro 7  DVD Studio Pro 4  Motion 4  Soundtrack Pro 3  Color 1.5  Compressor 3.5

Minor applications

Cinema Tools 4.5  Qmaster 3.5  QuickTime Pro 7

Utilities

Apple Loops Utility  Batch Monitor 2  Qadministrator  Final Cut Server

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Apple Inc. software

OS

Darwin  Mac OS X (Public Beta  “Cheetah”  “Puma”  “Jaguar”  “Panther”  “Tiger”  “Leopard”  “Snow Leopard”)  Iphone OS (version history)

Consumer

Bento  MobileMe  iLife (iMovie  iDVD  iPhoto  GarageBand  iWeb  iTunes (version history))  iWork (Keynote  Pages  Numbers  iWork.com)

Prosumer

Final Cut Express  Logic Express

Professional

Aperture  FileMaker Pro  Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro  DVD Studio Pro  Motion  Soundtrack Pro  Color  Compressor)  Logic Studio  (Logic Pro  Mainstage  Soundtrack Pro)

Bundled

Front Row  iChat  Mail  Photo Booth  QuickTime  Safari (version history)  TextEdit

Server

Apple Remote Desktop  Mac OS X Server  WebObjects  Xsan

Developer

Dashcode  Instruments  Interface Builder  Quartz Composer  Xcode

Discontinued

.Mac  AppleWorks  HyperCard  Mac OS (System 6, 7  Mac OS 8, 9)  MacDraw  MacPaint  MacProject  MacTerminal  MacWrite  ResEdit  Shake

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